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Here is an article from the Racine Journal News in August 1914:

3,600 SEE GREAT PLAY
AT THE REX THEATRE

Rex Theater Crowded Afternoon and
Evening to See Trey O' Hearts

How they did pack in the Rex Theater all day yesterday and last evening to see “The Trey O' Hearts”. This popular photo-drama had its
second installment yesterday, and the number of admissions ran 3600. This attendance was certainly gratifying to Tom Norman, manager, as he is confident the people of Racine would appreciate the production in moving pictures of Louis Joseph Vance’s great story.

All afternoon the women and children kept coming, and it seemed as
it all roads led to the Rex theater. In the evening the same scenes were repeated. The “Trey O' Hearts” has certainly made a big hit and the same large houses can be expected every Tuesday.

The “Million Dollar Mystery” made and is making a big hit, but
the crowd yesterday even surpassed that production’s biggest day.

A business license was issued for the Lyric in June 1975, perhaps to the last owners of the business, according to the Yuma Daily Sun:

There were seven business licenses issued by the city of
Yuma during the period of June 10 through 17. They were (excerpting):
Lyric Theater, Western Theaters of California, 211 Main St.

Also Plaza Theaters, 1560 4th Ave., Great Western Theaters
Inc. and James Jannapolous, owner Steven Lane, president;

Here is an excerpt from the Fresno Bee re the grand opening:

The Tower Theater, newest local amusement enterprise and
Fresno’s first large neighborhood motion picture house, will be
formally opened to the public at 1:30 o'clock tomorrow afternoon
at Olive and Wishon Avenues.
Construction work on the building, which also embraces
eight retail store premises in addition to the theater proper, has
Ijeen underway since Spring when long term leasing arrangements,
representing an eventual rental outlay of more than $200,000, were negotiated by the Fox West Coast Theaters, Inc.

Entire Block Included
The property includes the entire block bounded by Olive, Wishon,
•Linden and Fern Avenues, and includes a large, newly paved parking
lot adjoining the building which was erected at a cost approximating
$80,000, exclusive of the large amount of fixtures, equipment and
decorating.
Formerly the site of the Wishon Playground, the land and new
building are owned by A. Emory Wishon, formerly associated with
his father, the late A. G. Wishon, in the management of the San Joaquin,now a division of the Pacific Gas & Electric Company, of which Wishon was a vice president.
Many Notables Present
In Fresno for the opening of the theater are a number of figures
widely known in the Pacific Coast and the national amusement field,
among them Charles Skouras, presidentof the Fox West Coast concern;
Charles Buckley, vice president and general counsel; A. M
Bowles, Northern California division manager, and Nick O. Turner,
district manager.
The opening bill, with the performance starting at 2 P. M tomorrow,
will feature two pictures, Dancing Coed, in which Artie
Shaw, Lana Turner and Ann Rutherford are starred; and Henry Goes to
Arizona, with Virginia Weidler and Frank Morgan in the lead roles.
Rare woods from the tropics, gold beaten to the thinness of a hair,
and silver flattened to paper thickness went into making the intenor
of the Tower Theater one of the most beautiful on the West Coast.
Tiger wood, cut to a veneer and mounted on canvas, is used to decorate the lobby columns and to set off the walls which are paneled in a special variety of birch. Tropical woods go toward making up the lobby decorations. But it is in the theater decorations
itself that the work of the gold and silver beaters is apparent.
Several thousand square feet of ceiling and wall space is covered
with silver foil, and the interior columns, decorations on the
doors and rails and other fixtures are covered with gold leaf.
The gold and silver used in the decorations are estimated to have
cost several thousands of dollars.

Here is a 1935 newspaper ad:
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Here is a newspaper ad from 1950:
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Here is a 1950 newspaper ad:
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Here is a 1952 ad for the Capitol:
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Here is a 1974 newspaper ad:
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Here is a 1969 ad for the Sunset as well as some other Pussycat theaters:
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Here is a 1951 newspaper ad for the Art:
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There is an ad for the Brayton in this 1948 newspaper:
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Here is a newspaper ad from 1922:
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