Fine Arts Theater
429 S. California Avenue,
Palo Alto,
CA
94306
429 S. California Avenue,
Palo Alto,
CA
94306
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The Fine Arts theatre appeared briefly in the Walt Disney Productions film “Escape To Witch Mountain” (1975).
A 2010 photo can be seen here.
My Uncle Lawrence Borg Owned this theatre from approximately 1947. Uncle Lawrence Died in 1954, however the theatre remained in the family, under the Borg Family Trust. The Trust was dissolved around 1996/7, and the theatre was sold shortly before the trust was dissolved. I am trying to research when he actually purchased the theatre, or if he was the original owner.
This is a 1979 photo.
Here are two 1986 photos:
Day Photo
Night Photo
The architect of the 1951 moderne remodeling when the Mayfield was converted into the Fine Arts was Gale Santocono. The February 17 issue of Boxoffice ran the announcement, but managed to mangle the architect’s name into Gus Santascona.
If this building is on Loopnet, does that mean its for sale? And why didn’t you just link to the Loopnet page instead of removing their photo?
Here is another photo from a current loopnet ad:
http://tinyurl.com/2cc7ke
Here is a photo of the carpet store which looks like it is closing.
The name of the current business is Jamil Oriental Carpets.
I worked in this theater as a part-time fill-in IATSE Union projectionist from 1980 to 1982.
It certainly didn’t look like the Mayfield when I worked there! It has a beautiful 1950s Art Deco facade which thankfully for art lovers has not been destroyed. It closed in 1987 and became the oriental rug store mentioned above.