Daly City Theatre
6212 Mission Street,
Daly City,
CA
6212 Mission Street,
Daly City,
CA
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This theater, located just south of the San Francisco city limits, opened November 27, 1928, closed 1952, and was demolished in 1958.
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I have seen a photo of the facade of this theatre, not long after it closed, with the marquee’s message inviting patrons to attend what was then the brand new Serra Theatre nearby. The Serra itself lasted until the early 1990s.
A Robert-Morton theater organ size 2/6 was installed in the Daly City Theater in 1928.
Here is a 1942 photo:
http://tinyurl.com/2ndxgl
Wings for the Eagle with Ann Sheridan and Dennis Morgan was released in July of 1942.
As a five year old I sat in my Grandparent’s front window and watched the crane swing a wrecking ball into the walls of the Daly City Theater. Many times my Grandfather and I walked across the street to watch the demolition up close. I love the photo that kenmc posted!
This blog at View link contains a late 1930’s line drawing (likely based on a photo) of the Daly City Theatre. As is noted in the blog, this illustration ran at the top of the theatre’s newspaper advertisements in the late 1930’s. The newspaper ads I’ve seen from the late 1920’s don’t have this image.
Too bad it gone!
The January 21, 1928, issue of Building and Engineering News said that architect C. H. Jensen was completing revised plans for a 1,250 seat theater to be built at Daly City for E. Baron and Carol Nathan, proprietors of the Jefferson Theatre.
If the Daly City Theatre resembles the work of Reid Brothers, it might be because C. H. Jensen was that firm’s chief draftsman for several years prior to striking off on his own in 1921.