Fulton Theatre
1139 Fulton Mall,
Fresno,
CA
93721
1139 Fulton Mall,
Fresno,
CA
93721
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The Fulton Theatre is one many small independent theaters that once entertained the movie going public in Fresno. The 1950 edition of Film Daily Yearbook lists the address as 1139 Fulton Street.
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This is probably the theatre that still had part of the stage and auditorium above a false ceiling in what had been a Perry Boy’s Smorgie 30ish years ago.
On 3/8/36, the feature at the Fulton was “Star of Midnight”, with William Powell and Ginger Rogers. Admission was 20 cents. Other theaters advertised were the State, Kinema, Warner Brothers, Fox Wilson and Hardy’s. The Wilson was showing a film starring the recently born Dionne Quintuplets called “The Country Doctor”. A theater on F Street called the Rex, apparently a live performance venue, was featuring “Zorima, Queen of the Nudists”, along with fifty more “Real Lovely Nudists in Person”. I’m not sure if they meant they were real lovely or real as in not artificial.
I am very interested in any information concerning Zorima. I am at present doing some research about her history and trying to document her life. Would you have any more information about her? Or if anyone else that reads this knows anything about her, please E-Mail me
Thank you
Asa Hanson
A Bijou theatre is mentioned in the Fresno Bee archives beginning in 1888. The location was 1137 J Street, which later became Fulton Street and in 1964 Fulton Mall. An ad on the theater page on August 28, 1930, proclaimed: “Majestic Theatre Formerly BIJOU OPENS TONIGHT.†At this time sound equipment was installed, but the economic depression was too much and the Fulton closed in 1932.
Then along came Gerald Hardy, owner of Hardy’s theatre, who opened the closed Majestic as the New Fulton theatre on November 8, 1935, after a $25,000 remodeling.
The Fresno Bee said in 1974 that it closed for good in 1952. The open-air Fulton Mall was carved out of downtown Fulton Street in 1964, thus eliminating vehicular traffic.