Cairo Theatre

The operators, Ivan and Eula Hanson, ran the Cairo for 12 years before they built the Atlantic Theatre in Long Beach in 1941.

The address above would put the theater near Century Boulevard in South Los Angeles. Is that correct?

I have an orginal Member mickey mouse club card and pin from 1933 from the cairo theater. I was looking for information on the theatre and the card. If you have any please e-mail me at annalynn7199@yahoo.com Thanks.

ken mc: I just saw you question from last December. The Cairo would have been in the block just south of 110th Street, which was almost 3/4 of a mile south of Century- in fact, only a few blocks north of Imperial Highway.

Ken Roe posted a list of the 24 theatres being operated by the Edwards Circuit in 1950, and the Cairo (unless there were two theatres of that name in Los Angeles at the time) was among them. The list as in one of the comments on the page for the El Cameo Theater.

would you happen to know who owned the theatre in 1933? thanks

cmmc: The first comment above by ronp says that Ivan and Eula Hanson ran the Cairo for 12 years before they built the Atlantic Theatre in Long Beach in 1941, so they must have been the operators in 1933.

I didn't know there was a Mickey Mouse Club as early as 1933. I searched on Google, and found that the first Mickey Mouse Club of the era was formed at the Fox Dome Theatre in Ocean Park, California in 1929. In 1932 the club reached one million members. (This information from an official Disney Company page.)

Here is a link to a PDF file (only 180K, so easily downloaded) which is mostly about copyright law, and apparently has to do with a court case, but which discusses the early Micky Mouse Clubs for several pages, beginning on page 10.

In the Message Ronp left it mentioned Ran I was not sure if they also owned it at the time or ran the company for someone else. I Have searched all over the net and this is the only site which mentions the Cairo theatre. I've also Have only come across one site which has another orginal mambership card and it is sitting in a museum in tennesse. But to no luck no others yet. I do have pics of the card and pin if anyone interested just e-mail me. Thanks for the help.

cmcc: As operators of the Cairo, I suspect that the Hansens were owners of the business, though not necessarily of the building (many theatres were built by speculators and then leased to operators.) Most small suburban theatres such as the Cairo were not operated by circuits, but by independent business people. ronp's comments on the Atlantic Theatre indicate that the Hansens actually owned that theatre building, but say only that they "operated" the Cairo. Whether they owned the Cairo building or not, it seems likely that they were the independent owners of the business, at least until 1941.

On 1/22/50, the features were "Story of Seabiscuit" and "Intruder in the Dust". Phone number was PL5-3013.

11021 is a parking lot.11001 looks like a theater, but no record of one at that address, as far as I know.

11021 S. Main is listed as the address of the Tempest Theatre in the 1929 L.A. City Directory, so that should be added as an aka.