Mexico Theatre
24th. Street,
Rancho Cucamonga,
CA
24th. Street,
Rancho Cucamonga,
CA
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This should be Rancho Cucamonga, I think.
Yes, now that the Rancho de Cucamonga has been entirely subdivided and developed, they’ve changed the name of the town from Cucamonga to Rancho Cucamonga. Sort of like a killer taking on the identity of his victim.
Sure, Joe, whatever you say. Maybe you should cut down on the horror movies.
I see a Paris Theatre listed with an address of Cucamonga, Rt 1 in the 1937/38 and 1940 Ontario area city directories.
Boxoffice, Aug. 21, 1948: “Cucamonga, Calif. - The town made famous to millions on the air by Jack Benny now claims another distinction - that of being the proud possessor of a genuine open-air theatre. It came about like this: Louis Torres, who used to operate the Lux in Los Angeles, had ambitious plans for the construction of the Cucamonga Theatre here. Then that popular modern plague - material shortages - hit him, hard. He wound up with four walls, but no roof. Undaunted, Torres opened on schedule. Business is just fine, he reports.”
The 1950 Film Daily Year Book listed the Mexico with 300 seats at 547 24th Street. That’s a valid address, but it’s in the middle of a block of single-family houses, so I don’t know.