Jewel Theatre

Motion Picture News April 23, 1921, noted F.C. Blankenship and Dick Bixby were opening a theatre in Seal Beach. Ferdinand Blankenship also owned the Jewel and Tower cafes and Seal Inn. Mr. Bixby might have been the Richard Bixby of the well-known Bixby Land Company.

Mr. Blankenship passed away July 4, 1923, and the Santa Ana Register reported Stuart Mack was taking over the Jewel Theatre on July 21. Mr. Mack was a film director and his film, “The Isle of Jam", staring 100 kids from Long Beach was the opening attraction.

Film Daily Year Book 1926 lists the Jewel Theatre with 365 seats and in 1929 it was out of the Year Book. Previously in 1927 I.E. Patterson, who may have been the then operator of the Jewel Theatre, opened another theatre on Main Street.

As for Ira Patterson, the Santa Ana Register reported in November 1926 that he would be opening a theatre in the Gump Building on Main Street in January. Mr. Patterson’s theatre became the Coast Theatre and was listed in Film Daily Year Book with 200 seats until it was closed by 1933.

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