Coast Theater
45000 Main Street,
Mendocino,
CA
95460
45000 Main Street,
Mendocino,
CA
95460
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Friday nite March 30, 1933 Grand Opening as Coast Theater, image credit Kelly House Museum added.
This below facebook post by the Kelly House Museum also indicates it was Liberty Theatre when Asa Bishop bought it from Dave C. Crockett in 1924.
https://www.facebook.com/KelleyHouseMuseum/photos/a.127016644043613/4101004059978165/
According to the Kelly House Museum…
“J. E. Triguerio opened the theater in the Kelly Building on the corner of Main and Lansing in 1918. Dave Crockett took over in 1921. Asa Bishop bought him out in 1924, and finally, E. E. Pollock purchased Bishop’s business and renamed it the Coast Theater in 1930 and began showing the first Talking Pictures in Mendocino that year.”
The building is still standing.
“Summer of'42” was filmed here amongst others and features scenes with a theatre (the Coast?) which fits the time period as a coastal movie house. “Now, Voyager” was the movie within the movie filling in for Nantucket, NY. A boxoffice is seen, theatre balcony (wooden seats) and an usher opening the doors in uniform.
Also listed as ‘Closed’ in the 1941 and 1943 editions of Film Daily Yearbook with no further details given (the town name is still incorrectly spelt!).