Lyric Theatre

Prof David Ducay on January 22, 2018 at 3:11 pm

I’m guessing that the Lyric Theatre was still around during the early to mi-1920s. Based on a documented history of Kristin Delaplane the daughter of Fred Fisch a businessman pioneer of Vallejo in the 1900s. She writes: “Crowley’s Department Store was a fun store to go through, across from Crowley’s was a store and underneath it was a THEATRE. We also had the Hanlon Theater on Virginia Street and the Vallejo Theater.

Both the Hanlon and the Vallejo (aka Empress) Theatres were in the timeframe of 1920. Accross from the Crawley’s Department Store were other Department stores, I believe it a Men’s apparel and downstairs had to be the Lyric Theatre, that she is referring too. Later it became an arcade place they called the “Rat Hole”.