Mendota Theatre
719 Quince Street,
Mendota,
CA
93640
719 Quince Street,
Mendota,
CA
93640
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Anthony Bou’s Mendota Theatre had a ground-floor auditorium for English-language movies while films in Spanish were being shown on the second floor. That’s all according to a description in a 1950 issue of Boxoffice magazine.
The Mendota Theatre was opened in 1941 and was active by August 1946, when it was mentioned in a story in the Stockton Record. It was still open in July 1963 when it was offered ‘For Sale’.
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Zooming in with Google Street View we can see that the building at 719 Quince has the name “A. Bou” on its parapet. It also has the year 1941 on it, presumably the year it was built. I don’t see how there could be any doubt that this was the building that housed Anthony Bou’s Mendota Theatre.
In a classified ad in the July 15, 1963 issue of Boxoffice, Anthony Bou offered a 500-space drive-in theater and a 512-seat conventional theater showing “Spanish films” for sale. The ad gave Bou’s reason for selling as “[f]orced to retire from business, bad health.”