Arrow Theatre
16779 Arrow Boulevard,
Fontana,
CA
92235
16779 Arrow Boulevard,
Fontana,
CA
92235
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The Arrow Theatre opened in 1948 with 800 seats showing first run movies. In 1970, it went over to screening adult movies as a Pussycat Theatre, which lasted until the early 1980’s. It stayed open 41 years before becoming Del Mar Theatre in 1989. It closed in 1990.
After its life as a theatre, it had a long history as a church as Lighthouse Ministry Community Church and Tabernaculo de Restauracion and it was vacant by late 2007 when it was donated to Fontana Film Society and is currently being resurrected again as a theatre for live music and independent/foreign films.
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Boxoffice announced the construction of this theater, as yet unnamed, in its issue of May 8, 1948. The owner of the project was J.H. Harris, and the house was to be operated under lease by Bob Smith. The theater was designed by San Bernardino architect Howard E. Jones.
Jones is best known as the architect of the 1926 San Bernardino County Courthouse, which has recently been restored, but I’ve also found him cited as the architect of a remodeling of a Savoy Theatre in San Bernardino in 1921. In addition, Jones designed the San Bernardino Municipal Auditorium (erected 1923) and was the lead architect of the 1924 Platt Building and West Coast Theatre in San Bernardino, a project on which Lewis A. Smith was associated.
This was part of the Pussycat Theatre chain in the 1970s. Reopened in the early 80s as a second run house(The Delmar) before becoming a church as the 90s began. Last i heard it was a live theatre venue
20009 photo of the Arrow Theatre.
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