I grew up in nearby La Habra, and remember much of friends, especially guy friends spoke about rumors surrounding this theater even about the 1951 kidnapping, the theater itself was falling apart much of the theater suffered cracks in its outside wall and parapet chipped and crack during the Oct 1st 1987 Whittier Narrows Earthquake. Along with a window that also broke during that quake, that was not documented.
I grew up in nearby La Habra, and remember much of friends, especially guy friends spoke about rumors surrounding this theater even about the 1951 kidnapping, the theater itself was falling apart much of the theater suffered cracks in its outside wall and parapet chipped and crack during the Oct 1st 1987 Whittier Narrows Earthquake. Along with a window that also broke during that quake, that was not documented.