Deadchet is totally correct on his post that the Rossmoor Fox was not torn down but renovated to house a bank — it is currently the Farmers & Merchants Bank building. The SuperSaver Cinema was a different building in the shopping center slightly to the northwest.
A slight correction to the original article on the Bay. The Bay was not built in the late 1930s. It was built and opened in 1945 (Thanksgiving evening to be exact) as the Beach Theatre by Oscar Johnson. Seal Beach did not have enough of a population to support a theatre until after the Navy base was constructed in 1944, and even then it was dicey. Johnson sold the Beach in June 1946 to National General (20th century Fox). They closed it, did some renovations, and reopened as the Bay Theatre in July 1946. For the first ten years or so, the theatre was only open on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays. In the late 1950s as the surrounding area population grew, a manager started doing foreign and arthouse showings on Tuesday thru Thursday.
Deadchet is totally correct on his post that the Rossmoor Fox was not torn down but renovated to house a bank — it is currently the Farmers & Merchants Bank building. The SuperSaver Cinema was a different building in the shopping center slightly to the northwest.
A slight correction to the original article on the Bay. The Bay was not built in the late 1930s. It was built and opened in 1945 (Thanksgiving evening to be exact) as the Beach Theatre by Oscar Johnson. Seal Beach did not have enough of a population to support a theatre until after the Navy base was constructed in 1944, and even then it was dicey. Johnson sold the Beach in June 1946 to National General (20th century Fox). They closed it, did some renovations, and reopened as the Bay Theatre in July 1946. For the first ten years or so, the theatre was only open on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays. In the late 1950s as the surrounding area population grew, a manager started doing foreign and arthouse showings on Tuesday thru Thursday.