Strand Theater
505 C Street,
Oxnard,
CA
93030
505 C Street,
Oxnard,
CA
93030
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The Victory Theatre was opened in 1910. Later renamed Strand Theatre became the Gospel Temple Church in February 1952.
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A card in the California Index indicates that the Strand was located in the Oxnard Masonic Temple. It cites an April 14, 1933, Southwest Builder & Contractor item saying “Claude A. Spaeth, manager of the Strand Theatre, Oxnard, is having plans prepared for remodeling the theater on the ground floor of the Masonic Temple Building.” The cornerstone of the Masonic Temple was laid in 1901, according to a Los Angeles Times item of January 17 that year.
August 2nd, 1940 grand opening as Strand can be found at View link
According to “The Encyclopedia of the American Theatre Organ” by David L. Junchen, pg. 628,
an “unidentified theatre” in Oxnard had a two manual, three rank Smith theatre pipe organ installed at some point.
No date or other details are given in the book.
Looking through the pages for various Oxnard theatres in this website, it seems possible that the Aztec Theatre, or the Strand Theatre, could have been a home to this instrument at one point, since Smith installed most of their organs between about 1916 and 1926. Does anybody know more?