Park Theatre
1203 Spring Street,
Paso Robles,
CA
93446
1203 Spring Street,
Paso Robles,
CA
93446
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Previously operated by: T & D Jr. Enterprises
Previous Names: New Park Theatre
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The New Park Theatre was opened in April 1921 by T & D Jr. Enterprises. The theatre contained a 2 manual 4 rank piano console Wurlitzer organ opus 414 shipped from North Tonawanda, NY on March 5, 1921. It was closed by 1930
It is known that the Wurlitzer from the Park Theatre was given to the local Methodist church, but it was never used and ended up as junk.
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Tom DeLay
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A New Park Theatre is listed as a T&D circuit house at Paso Robles in the 1926 edition of the Film Daily Yearbook. I’ve found a T&D Theatre at Paso Robles mentioned as early as 1924, and one source says that Turner & Dahnken began operating a theater in Paso Robles in the late 1910s. It’s possible that all three referred to the same theater. It’s also possible that the Park Theatre closed when the new T&D Theatre on 12th Street was opened in 1930.
I’ve also found a reference to the Wurlitzer organ from the T&D Theatre being donated to the church in 1931. I suspect that the organ was from the old house, and not the new one. By the time the new T&D was opened, silent movies were pretty much gone, so my guess would be that it never had an organ.