Mendota Theatre

719 Quince Street,
Mendota, CA 93640

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Joe Vogel
Joe Vogel on February 12, 2025 at 9:23 am

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.”