Neptune Theatre
1417 Ocean Front Walk,
Venice,
CA
90291
1417 Ocean Front Walk,
Venice,
CA
90291
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Grand opening ad posted.
This postcard shows the Neptune Theatre in the background beyond the Merryland Arcade. It is postmarked July 7, 1913, so the photo was probably taken within two years or less of the theater’s opening.
The Neptune marquee is visible on the left in this 1915 photo:
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1925 Venice map, Neptune is #31 -
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The L.A. library’s California Index confirms a 1911 opening for the Neptune Theatre. The opening date was either May 22 or May 23, 1911, according to an ambiguous article in The Santa Monica Outlook of May 12, 1911. The theatre was owned by David Evans, and was upon opening operated under a lease by Los Angeles vaudeville impresario Arthur S. Hyman (whose Hyman Theatre at 8th and Broadway in Los Angeles later became the Garrick Theatre and was finally demolished to make way for the Tower Theatre.) According to the February 3, 1912 issue of of the regional entertainment publication, The Rounder, the Neptune in that year presented previews of a number of movies made by the Bison Company, a local Santa Monica studio.
The Venice Timeline claims that the Neptune Theatre opened in 1911, with 750 seats.