Scott, to answer your question about whether my uncle owned those others theaters, I honestly don’t know but believe the answer is no. Most of his properties were in the Santa Cruz area and NCal. He has sold those before I was old enough to know what he did except for the theaters in Paso.
Also he had sold the Oaks before it ever started showing even mildly soft X stuff.
My uncle, Al Stanford owned all 3 of the theaters in Paso Robles as well as others. There was a small theater around 13th and Spring which became a bowling alley for a while and then was broken up into small shops. The Fox was further north by a couple of blocks and was open until sometime in the late 70s. And the drive-in was out at 101 and 41 intersection. Al sold it to a developer in the early 80s and it did run bad movies (and some very softcore xxx) for a whle afterwards. It is now where a bunch of big box stores are.
Al worked for Fox (and probably a whole lot more) back during the depression. I can remember his stories about making tomato soup by putting ketchup in hot water. He eventually owned a number of theaters (11 comes to mind) but had sold out most of them by the time I was old enough to know what he did. He was always my favorite uncle.
Scott, to answer your question about whether my uncle owned those others theaters, I honestly don’t know but believe the answer is no. Most of his properties were in the Santa Cruz area and NCal. He has sold those before I was old enough to know what he did except for the theaters in Paso.
Also he had sold the Oaks before it ever started showing even mildly soft X stuff.
My uncle, Al Stanford owned all 3 of the theaters in Paso Robles as well as others. There was a small theater around 13th and Spring which became a bowling alley for a while and then was broken up into small shops. The Fox was further north by a couple of blocks and was open until sometime in the late 70s. And the drive-in was out at 101 and 41 intersection. Al sold it to a developer in the early 80s and it did run bad movies (and some very softcore xxx) for a whle afterwards. It is now where a bunch of big box stores are.
Al worked for Fox (and probably a whole lot more) back during the depression. I can remember his stories about making tomato soup by putting ketchup in hot water. He eventually owned a number of theaters (11 comes to mind) but had sold out most of them by the time I was old enough to know what he did. He was always my favorite uncle.