Speaking of the original Golden Bough… a recently-deceased former Carmel High School teacher named Peter Lyon had in his possession a black-and-white home movie taken by his father during the 1935 fire that destroyed the theatre. He showed this film to a class I was in back about 1973. I remember him mentioning that the theatre owners had made noise about taking some kind of legal action against the fire department (or the city) on the grounds that their water pressure was too weak to effectively fight the fire. Mr. Lyon’s father’s home movie was used to prove that this was not so; I clearly remember seeing the streams of water from the hoses shooting straight up past the burning roofline.
My father was in his mid 20s at the time, and he told me he could see the plume of smoke above the trees all the way from the beach.
I wonder why there is no page on this site for the Golden Bough—either the original, the second one, or the current movie-theatre-turned-playhouse (where I and the rest of the Monterey Peninsula population saw the original Star Wars in 1977).
This theater showed X-rated films for much of the 60s and 70s, as I recall. I saw “Kiss of the Spider Woman” there in the 80s. For quite a number of years now the building has functioned as a ballroom dance studio.
I have a very hazy memory of seeing the theater in the process of being torn down, when I was just a toddler. I remember that the side walls were still standing, but the roof was off. After so many years, my memory could certainly be faulty, but I have the impression that there was some sort of mural on the inside wall that I could see. Anyone know if there was such a mural?
Speaking of the original Golden Bough… a recently-deceased former Carmel High School teacher named Peter Lyon had in his possession a black-and-white home movie taken by his father during the 1935 fire that destroyed the theatre. He showed this film to a class I was in back about 1973. I remember him mentioning that the theatre owners had made noise about taking some kind of legal action against the fire department (or the city) on the grounds that their water pressure was too weak to effectively fight the fire. Mr. Lyon’s father’s home movie was used to prove that this was not so; I clearly remember seeing the streams of water from the hoses shooting straight up past the burning roofline.
My father was in his mid 20s at the time, and he told me he could see the plume of smoke above the trees all the way from the beach.
I wonder why there is no page on this site for the Golden Bough—either the original, the second one, or the current movie-theatre-turned-playhouse (where I and the rest of the Monterey Peninsula population saw the original Star Wars in 1977).
This theater showed X-rated films for much of the 60s and 70s, as I recall. I saw “Kiss of the Spider Woman” there in the 80s. For quite a number of years now the building has functioned as a ballroom dance studio.
The third floor now houses the kids' church for Monterey Church, which is taking over the lease of the building on November 1, 2009.
I have a very hazy memory of seeing the theater in the process of being torn down, when I was just a toddler. I remember that the side walls were still standing, but the roof was off. After so many years, my memory could certainly be faulty, but I have the impression that there was some sort of mural on the inside wall that I could see. Anyone know if there was such a mural?