Willow Glen Theatre
1360 Lincoln Avenue,
San Jose,
CA
95125
1360 Lincoln Avenue,
San Jose,
CA
95125
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Architects: William Binder, Ernest Curtis
Firms: Binder & Curtis
Functions: Retail
Styles: Spanish Colonial
Previous Names: Vogue Theatre
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San Jose’s Willow Glen neighborhood was originally its own separate community, and has always had what feels like its own downtown. In this neighborhood was built San Jose’s second-ever neighborhood theater, the Willow Glen Theatre, designed by Binder and Curtis and opened on March 4, 1933.
Operation of the theatre was taken over by General Theatrical in 1944. From July 3, 1949 it had brief name-change to the Vogue Theatre screening art house foreign movies opening with a filmed version of the opera “La Traviata” from the Teatro Reale Dell Opera in Rome. The theatre closed shortly after the much larger Garden Theatre–also run by General Theatrical–had opened on June 22, 1949.
The Willow Glen Theatre/Vogue Theatre was shortly thereafter converted to retail, and only a concrete protrusion on the rear wall where the screen and speakers were housed, flanked by two sets of exit doors, give evidence of the little buildings' original use.
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Gary Parks
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Went to many a Saturday matinee here. Double features, cartoons, series, previews and news, especially war news. Only a dime and sometimes just a can of food for the Red Cross. March of Dimes cans passed in the dark. After the movie, it was across the street to Towners. He made great ice cream.
This reopened as the Vogue theatre on July 3rd, 1949, as an art cinema. Another ad posted.
Closed in 1950.
opened as Willow Glen on March 4th, 1933. Ad posted.