Metro 4
618 State Street,
Santa Barbara,
CA
93101
618 State Street,
Santa Barbara,
CA
93101
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An old vaudeville house on lower State Street, the former Mission Theatre was built in the 1930’s or 1940’s and had 1,000 seats.
In the late-1980’s, it was gutted and converted into a fourplex (built within), with a new marquee. The old stage house was walled off and and the dressing rooms converted into retail space. There is a small history display on your right, when going to the cinemas, before you go upstairs to the restrooms.
“I remember spending rainy summer days there with the summer camp watching animated movies.”
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Scott Padrick
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Here are some photos from October 2007:
http://tinyurl.com/2rdth9
http://tinyurl.com/38betx
http://tinyurl.com/2owljv
http://tinyurl.com/34aaoe
This is a December 2007 photo.
Metropolitan Theatres Corporation website
Here is a March 2009 photo:
http://tinyurl.com/d9yyh9
The header says this is a single screen, shouldn’t that read 4 screen?
Your the only one that noticed. LOL
Definitely a four-screen theatre – more than 700 seats, too!
Mission Theatre in 1980: View link
Another 1980 daytime shot: View link
As seen after the June 29, 1925 Santa Barbara earthquake: View link