Strand Theater
7023 Greenleaf Avenue,
Whittier,
CA
90602
7023 Greenleaf Avenue,
Whittier,
CA
90602
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Previous Names: Gale Theater
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The Gale Theater showed silent films in Whittier from around 1916. On February 21, 1922 it was renamed Strand Theater and a Robert Morton pipe organ was installed. It was closed in 1923 and the operators moved into the New Strand Theatre on January 21, 1924 (it has its own page on Cinema Treasures).
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Southwest Contractor & Maufacturer in its issue of January 22, 1916, said that The Gale Theatrical Company would erect a brick theatre on S. Greenleaf Avenue.
Henry J. Siler’s Gale Theatrical Co. opened the Gale Theatre in 1916 in Whittier. He opened the larger Scenic Theatre in 1920 and closed the Gale in 1921. Months later, R.G. Hunt took on the theatre running it into early 1922 selling it to M.M. Hanam who changed the name of the venue to the Strand Theatre on February 21, 1922. Hanam installed a new Robert Morton pipe organ. Hanam closed the theatre with C.W. Pixley taken over the operation that August until closing.
In 1923, Siler acquired the former Gale turned Strand and moved to the New Strand with Henry Gwin opening on January 21, 1924. It has its own Cinema Treasure page.