Weed Palace Theater
180 Main Street,
Weed,
CA
96094
180 Main Street,
Weed,
CA
96094
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Thanks JuliaG.Have a great night.
Poor little Weed. It isn’t even in Humboldt County!
I was going to see a movie there,but I forgot.
Oh by the way do they have a smoking section?
I bet they sell a lot of popcorn there!!!
As Joe mentioned, this was also known as the Palace Theater. Here is a 1986 photo.
Somebody will smoke it out eventually.
Cute.
Hopefully you can weed out all this information. Keep us posted.
Oh, there should probably also be an aka of Palace Theatre. The only reference to the name I can find comes from the May, 1985, issue of Boxoffice, which refers to “…Main Street Amusement’s Palace Theatre in Weed, Calif….” but there might be old ads or listings confirming the name somewhere. I’ll be on the lookout for them.
Though later issues of Boxoffice Magazine call it simply the Weed Theatre, the earliest references to this house I can find in Boxoffice date from 1945, and these call the house the New Weed Theatre. All these items have to do with the installation of new projection equipment. The August 11 issue says “The New Weed Theatre in Weed will soon be equipped with an improved projection room.”
That Moderne front doesn’t look like anything built in the 1920s, even in a major metropolis, let alone a small town like Weed. If the theater dates from the 1920s, a major remodeling must have been done. That would probably account for the use of the name New Weed Theatre in the 1945 articles. The name dates to at latest 1937, as a card in the California Index cites a Motion Picture Herald item from June 12, 1937, about the New Weed Theatre.
So, there should be aka’s of Weed Theatre and New Weed Theatre.
Here is a link:
http://www.cinematour.com/tour/us/3084.html
I can’t find the theater in this picture, but any town named Weed deserves at least one photo, don’t you agree?
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I was one of the last film buyers who booked this house back in
the mid 80’s when it was operated by an independent named
Stan Strain. It was a steady little grosser. Stan retired
and closed the venue. At a later date, it reopened under the
auspices of one of the Naify’s.
I will always have a fondness for The Palace. I am so glad
that it is now preserved and useful for another owner.
When the Weed Theatre was a movie theatre it seated 701 people.