Arbuckle Theatre
Arbuckle,
CA
95912
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Previously operated by: Redwood Theatres Inc.
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The first(?) Arbuckle Theatre in Arbuckle, California, was open by 1921, when the Colusa Herald noted that W. R. Claman had sold his share of the theatre to S. S. Theller of Yreka.
In January 1923, D. H. Jones sold the Arbuckle Theatre to Mr. and Mrs. Dixon, who owned the Welcome Theatre of Knights Landing, per a story in the Woodland Daily Democrat. Almost three years later, in December 1925, Dr. T. H. Dixon sold it to Mrs. S. E. Weyand.
In October 1926, “Arbuckle’s new theatre and furniture store building (was) being rushed to completion by John Kaintock, its owner”. It opened on November 25, 1926, per the Herald. The Arbuckle Theatre later remodeled with sound, reopening on March 1, 1930, showing “Sally” with Marilyn Miller.
The Arbuckle Theatre was dark for a month in 1940, then reopened under the ownership of Mr. and Mrs. Don L. Buckman. In 1945, Redwood Theatres, Inc., sold the Arbuckle Theatre to Ray and Clarice McFarlane, who operated it for 10 years.
The 1950 Film Daily Year Book listed the Arbuckle Theatre with 310 seats. In 1956, Richard Nannser and Walter G. Preddey sold the theatre building to Mr. and Mrs. Leo P. LaSalle, who planned to make the upper floor into a skating rink while living on the ground floor, per Boxoffice.
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Arbuckle had a movie house at least by 1914, when the AMPD listed it under the (probably generic) name M. P. Theatre. And then this brief item from the October 3, 1914 issue of Moving Picture World also failed to provide a name for the house: “J. Dunnigan has purchased the interests of E. J. Miller in the moving picture house conducted at Arbuckle, Cal.”
A list of independent vaudeville houses published in the November 7, 1914 issue of The Billboard included the 350-seat Opera, Arbuckle, California, managed by E. J. Miller. It might be that the Opera was not the picture house involved in the transaction between Miller and Dunnigan. E. J. Miller was still being noted as a theater operator at Arbuckle in the March 16, 1926 issue of the Colusa Herald.