Greenfield Theater
239 El Camino Real,
Greenfield,
CA
93927
239 El Camino Real,
Greenfield,
CA
93927
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This theater was very short-lived. It was opened on June 27, 1946 with Eddie Albert in “Strange Voyage”. Operated by by Greenfield resident George F. Thompson. The theater lasted until the advent of television and was then closed.
George Thompson had a business partner, whose name at this time is not known. Mr. Thompson had been a theater projectionist in the Bay Area during the late-1920’s and up to the start of World War II.
Mr. Thompson owned a 2 manual 8 rank Wurlitzer from the San Francisco Amazon Theatre that he intended to install in the Greenfield Theatre.
With the closing of the theatre, George eventually installed the organ in his home in rural Salinas, CA.
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Tom DeLay
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The theatre still stands. It has long been used for retail. For a time, a karate studio operated in the former auditorium.
The facade still looks like a theatre. The marquee and any signage are long gone, but the stucco streamlined ribbed or fin motif which once backed the sign is still there.
It is listed as operating in the 1951 Film Daily Yearbook.
The theatre was also known as the Circle, in 1951.
I’m assuming that Gary, or someone else, has set the Google street view to the correct location of the (still standing) Greenfield Theatre. The building certainly looks like a former theater, with the wide entrance now closed up. As the flanking storefronts display the addresses 237 and 241, the theater must have been at 239 El Camino Real. The zip code is 93927.
The theater’s auditorium appears to have been fenestrated and divided into a couple of retail shops, entered from the side of the building. One is an ice cream parlor and the other sells drinking water. Ah, California.