New Fruitvale Theatre

3720 International Boulevard,
Oakland, CA 94601

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mcooley
mcooley on February 20, 2003 at 8:04 pm

My grandfather, McCabe Cooley, was the manager of the Fruitvale Theatre when he died one night after work of a heart attack in 1958. I can’t be certain, but I believe my father once told me that it was owned by Pacific Theatres. A distant cousin recently sent a movie pass to me, probably from about 1942-45, for the Laurel Theater, which was given to her grandmother and signed by my grandfather while he was manager there. I see no mention of it anywhere so it must be long gone. The address on the pass is 3814 MacArthur Boulevard, Oakland, CA. My guess is that it was also a Pacific theatre.