Rancho Theater
720 Main Street,
Pleasanton,
CA
94566
720 Main Street,
Pleasanton,
CA
94566
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Originally built as a funeral parlor, by the 1920s in was “The Fireproof Garage”. During World War 2, while agricultural workers were brought in from Mexico to cover for American men overseas, it became a Spanish languague movie house. It became a furniture store, then a TV and electronics business. Today it’s a hair salon.
A brochure for a walking tour of downtown Pleasanton (no longer available on the Internet) said that the mission revival building at 720-722 Main was built as an auto showroom and garage around 1920, and in 1945 was converted into the Rancho Theatre, “a Spanish movie house.”