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  • <p>1940s insurance photo by Ted Newman, of the Del Mar’s auditorium and original curtain, taken from the balcony. Comparison of this image with a similar view Newman took of the California Theatre in Petaluma would indicate that William Chavalas, the Del Mar’s decorator, also designed the 1930s remodel of the California in Petaluma.</p>
  • <p>Illustration from the Inaugural Program cover of the Del Mar. The illustration shows a fanciful interpretation of the lobby, framing a scene of Santa Cruz’s main beach, with the Casino and Neptune Plunge building.</p>
  • <p>1936 postcard image courtesy of Sandy Ragsdale‎.</p>
  • <p>Owned by the City Of Santa Cruz and leased to Landmark Cinemas this classic large movie theatre was built very solid and did well in the big earthquake many years ago in 1989. The downstairs has been de twined the mess former UA Theatres did has been corrected. Now lets hope some one will fix the waterfall curtains again and repair the neon out front. I have told the manager Scott to start a fund raising drive and add $1 per ticket restoration surcharge for the fixing up of the neon and curtains. Landmark won’t do It, nor the city of Santa Cruz. The public Santa Cruz movie going wants these two things fixed now and will help pay for them I think.</p>
  • <p>All set up for trick or treat the outside boxoffice.</p>
  • <p>Owned by the City Of Santa Cruz and leased to Landmark Theatres you won’t find a nicer deco lobby in the Surf City of Santa Cruz CA.</p>
  • <p>In the main lobby deco water fountain still works.</p>
  • <p>Set up now for DCP but they still have their 35 mm projector in place.</p>
  • <p>Ethel Barrymore as Juliet puppet from the collection of Professor Bradford Clark, on display at a Cleveland Public Library exhibit, in August 2019.</p>
  • <p>One of the puppets from “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.”</p>
  • <p>A puppet from “Alice in Wonderland.”</p>
  • <p>François Martin (left) and John Ralph Geddis (right) performing “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.”</p>
  • <p>Tantamount Theater program for 1966 production of “Alice in Wonderland.”</p>