Photo Play Theater
21 W. Main Street,
Los Gatos,
CA
95030
21 W. Main Street,
Los Gatos,
CA
95030
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The Los Gatos Times, over the years, have published several photographs and references to the old Sorenson Plumbing building at 21 W. Main Street, which by 1910 was the Photo Play Theater. It was said to be located next to the Los Gatos Creek, standing on stilts. Old Sanborn Maps show a building at this location standing on wood posts.
The Times noted the Photo Play Theater was one of two nickelodeons operating at the time, the other being in the Kyle Building at 102 N. Santa Cruz Avenue, opposite Bean Avenue.
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I don’t know if addresses were shifted or the theater moved, but in the 1914-1915 American Motion Picture Directory the Photoplay theatre was listed at 280 Main Street. Two other houses were listed at Los Gatos: the Majestic Theatre, no location given, and the Thomas Theatre, on Main Street. No theaters were listed at Los Gatos in the 1926 or 1927 FDYs, but a house called the Strand appears in 1928, and in 1929 is listed with 400 seats.