Casino Theatre

The city of Antioch reports that in 1911, Ferd Stamm and Ralph Beede built the Casino Theatre for silent movies and vaudeville.

The Casino Theatre appeared on Sanborn Maps 1912, at Galloway Street and Front Street labeled ‘Vaudeville, Moving Pictures’. By 1926, with the streets renamed, the location was listed at 619 1st Street at H Street.

The Oakland Tribune reported on December 25, 1927, that upon completion of Ferd Stamm’s new theatre (El Campanil Theatre which has its own page on Cinema Treasures) the old theatre at 1st Street and H Street would be closed. The Casino Theatre could only handle single reel silent films, but the state-of-the art new theatre could handle multi-reel films.

The Casino Theatre continued to show up periodically in Film Daily Year Book from 1926 to 1951 at 1st Street & H Street, seating 450. It last appeared on maps in 1948. In 1975 after larger movie theatres were built, the Casino Theatre became home to multiple shops.

Today’s location would be in Waldie Plaza, an Antioch landmark.

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