West End Theater

324 West 4th Street,
Santa Ana, CA 92701

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kencmcintyre
kencmcintyre on September 28, 2008 at 11:21 pm

Here is a May 1969 ad from the LA Times:
http://tinyurl.com/4hcrmn

lostmemory
lostmemory on November 11, 2007 at 8:50 pm

This is a recent close-up view of the West End Theater.

kencmcintyre
kencmcintyre on October 5, 2007 at 9:29 am

Here is a 1970 ad from the LA Times:
http://tinyurl.com/23cg9n

mhshapiro
mhshapiro on July 13, 2006 at 8:09 pm

I recently posted pictures on Webshots of the West End Theater, the Fox West Coast Theater, and the Yost Theater in Santa Ana as they currently appear (July 2006).

The name of the album is “Downtowns – Central Orange County, CA” and the URL is:

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There also is a picture of an old theater in Orange, CA in the album.

kencmcintyre
kencmcintyre on October 18, 2005 at 6:51 pm

From the UCLA Digital Archive:

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RonP
RonP on July 19, 2005 at 8:21 am

In the 1920 Santa Ana directory there is J. Flood Walker at 315 W. 2nd.
It is not known if he is any relation to C.E. Walker, who was a prominent local exhibitor.
Louis Schesinger, Ed Yost, and Charles Walker were the notable exhibitors in early Santa Ana. The West End (1915), built by L.A. Schlesinger, was Santa Ana’s first theatre built expressly for films. Yost at one time operated the Temple (1909), the Yost (1919 remodel), the Yost Broadway (1926) and the Colonial in nearby Orange (1915). Walker’s early theatres were The Princess (1914), the New Princess (1923) and the New Walker (1924), later renamed the Fox West Coast. In 1935 Walker opened the remodeled Walkers State, (formerly the West End). In 1936 Walker renovated the former Temple Theatre into Walker’s Theatre. Before Walker came to Santa Ana, he operated the Roubidoux Theatre in Riverside. All three men at one time or another ran the Temple and the West End.

Joe Vogel
Joe Vogel on March 15, 2005 at 7:23 am

There is a better than even chance that the correct name of the architect of this theater is John Walker Flood, rather than J. Flood Walker. I have seen both names on cards in the L.A. Public Library database, but I believe J. Flood Walker to have been an error. If someone has access to an old Santa Ana City Directory, or a copy of Who’s Who in California from the 1910s-1920s, the mystery might be cleared up.

KenRoe
KenRoe on November 11, 2004 at 8:24 am

The seating capacity given for Walker’s State Theatre in 1941 is 700.