Paso Robles Press 26.Sept.1929 Plans For New Theater Drawn. Details call for $165,000 construction. Store, offices, apartments included in plans.
29.May.1930 Theater Building To Start Next Week. Revised Cost $85,000. Stores to be added as needed. To be finest structure of kind in county. Of Spanish style, the theater will have one of the most imposing lobbies in Central California. From 12th Street the lobby will extend 53 feet and be 30 feet wide. The auditorium proper will be 73 by 160 feet.
6.Nov.1930 Thousands Join in Welcoming Theater. “Up the River” shown with Humphrey Bogart, Clare Luce, Warren Hymer, William Collier, Sr., Joan “Cherie” Lawes and Spencer Tracy making his screen debut.
27.Sept.1946 T&D Theater Installs System To Kill Germs…a system of ultraviolet ray fixtures installed, Al Stanford, manager, has announced.
9.Dec.1955 Hi-Ho Theatre To Be Re-Opened. Temporary closing of the T&D Theatre for a $100,000 remodeling program…was announced today by William H. Thedford, northern California division manager for Fox-West Coast Theatre Corporation. To accomodate local theatre-goers during the time the T and D must be closed, the company is reconditioning the Hi-Ho Theatre on north Spring street and all films scheduled for the T and D will be shown there. It will take about two weeks to re-equip the Hi-Ho with new seats, sound equipment and other facilities, but the company plans the reopening by Christmas. Meanwhile, the T and D will close after the Saturday night performance…(Note: The T&D never reopened.)
28.Dec.1956 Crocker-Anglo Bank Continues “Site Search.” Among buildings under consideration are the old Post Office and the T & D Theatre, on 12th Street.
27.Jan.1957 Crocker-Anglo To Make Site-Decision Jan. 8… the Old Post Office building, on 12th Street, probably will be selected.
25.Feb.1957 Monday (Front page photo) BRINGS DOWN THE HOUSE- Large section of roof of T & D Theatre crashed to floor of auditorium, Friday night, minutes after wrecking crew had left the building. Workers said today that rains had probably allowed walls to “lean outward,” allowing huge beams to drop. Weakened walls are creating additional hazard for members of the wrecking crew…
Link to Paso Robles Historic Photos: http://www.pasoroblesdowntown.org/photo_gallery.htm
Photo #2/18 is also on page 84 in the Arcadia Publishing book “Images of America, Paso Robles,” by Hobbs and Radford of the Paso Robles Pioneer Museum. The caption says that this photo was in 1946. “Time of Their Lives” starred Bud Abbot, Lou Costello and Marjorie Reynolds.
Paso Robles Press 26.Sept.1929 Plans For New Theater Drawn. Details call for $165,000 construction. Store, offices, apartments included in plans.
29.May.1930 Theater Building To Start Next Week. Revised Cost $85,000. Stores to be added as needed. To be finest structure of kind in county. Of Spanish style, the theater will have one of the most imposing lobbies in Central California. From 12th Street the lobby will extend 53 feet and be 30 feet wide. The auditorium proper will be 73 by 160 feet.
6.Nov.1930 Thousands Join in Welcoming Theater. “Up the River” shown with Humphrey Bogart, Clare Luce, Warren Hymer, William Collier, Sr., Joan “Cherie” Lawes and Spencer Tracy making his screen debut.
27.Sept.1946 T&D Theater Installs System To Kill Germs…a system of ultraviolet ray fixtures installed, Al Stanford, manager, has announced.
9.Dec.1955 Hi-Ho Theatre To Be Re-Opened. Temporary closing of the T&D Theatre for a $100,000 remodeling program…was announced today by William H. Thedford, northern California division manager for Fox-West Coast Theatre Corporation. To accomodate local theatre-goers during the time the T and D must be closed, the company is reconditioning the Hi-Ho Theatre on north Spring street and all films scheduled for the T and D will be shown there. It will take about two weeks to re-equip the Hi-Ho with new seats, sound equipment and other facilities, but the company plans the reopening by Christmas. Meanwhile, the T and D will close after the Saturday night performance…(Note: The T&D never reopened.)
28.Dec.1956 Crocker-Anglo Bank Continues “Site Search.” Among buildings under consideration are the old Post Office and the T & D Theatre, on 12th Street.
27.Jan.1957 Crocker-Anglo To Make Site-Decision Jan. 8… the Old Post Office building, on 12th Street, probably will be selected.
25.Feb.1957 Monday (Front page photo) BRINGS DOWN THE HOUSE- Large section of roof of T & D Theatre crashed to floor of auditorium, Friday night, minutes after wrecking crew had left the building. Workers said today that rains had probably allowed walls to “lean outward,” allowing huge beams to drop. Weakened walls are creating additional hazard for members of the wrecking crew…
Link to Paso Robles Historic Photos: http://www.pasoroblesdowntown.org/photo_gallery.htm Photo #2/18 is also on page 84 in the Arcadia Publishing book “Images of America, Paso Robles,” by Hobbs and Radford of the Paso Robles Pioneer Museum. The caption says that this photo was in 1946. “Time of Their Lives” starred Bud Abbot, Lou Costello and Marjorie Reynolds.