Gaslighter Theatre
400 E. Campbell Avenue,
Campbell,
CA
95008
400 E. Campbell Avenue,
Campbell,
CA
95008
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For what it’s worth, the March, 1920, issue of The Architect & Engineer had this item, which might or might not have something to do with the origins of the Gaslighter Theatre’s building:[quote]“Bank to Erect Building
“Messrs. Wolfe and Higgins, Auzerais building, San Jose, are preparing plans for a bank building, stores and moving picture theatre, to be built at Campbell, near San Jose, for the Growers National Bank. Forty thousand dollars will be expended on the improvements.”[/quote]Perhaps only the part of the project that housed the bank was completed, or perhaps the original plans were discarded altogether and a different architect designed the building that was actually built. It’s a mystery someone from the area might be able to unravel.
Here is a 1984 photo:
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Here is a November 2001 article. Orchard City Theater should be an aka:
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The Gaslighter has recently closed. I have heard it said that the space is to be turned into some kind of “ultralounge.” Apparently, requisite seismic upgrading is to be undertaken first.
I only went to one show at the Gaslighter, in Fall of 2000. It was my second date with my wife.
Website for the Gaslighter Theater:
http://www.thegaslighter.com/menu/HomePage.shtml
The building was first the Grower’s National Bank, built in 1922 and it remained a bank until the stock market crash in 1929. Ten years later in 1939 it opened as the Campbell Theatre, with the movie “Gone With the Wind”. It closed as a movie theatre in 1963.
It re-opened as the Gaslighter Theatre in 1967.
The address for the Gaslighter Theatre is 400 E. Campbell, Campbell, Ca., 95008.