Arbuckle Theatre

The first(?) Arbuckle Theatre in Arbuckle, California, was open by 1921, when the Colusa Herald noted that W. R. Claman had sold his share of the theatre to S. S. Theller of Yreka.

In January 1923, D. H. Jones sold the Arbuckle Theatre to Mr. and Mrs. Dixon, who owned the Welcome Theatre of Knights Landing, per a story in the Woodland Daily Democrat. Almost three years later, in December 1925, Dr. T. H. Dixon sold it to Mrs. S. E. Weyand.

In October 1926, “Arbuckle’s new theatre and furniture store building (was) being rushed to completion by John Kaintock, its owner”. It opened on November 25, 1926, per the Herald. The Arbuckle Theatre later remodeled with sound, reopening on March 1, 1930, showing “Sally” with Marilyn Miller.

The Arbuckle Theatre was dark for a month in 1940, then reopened under the ownership of Mr. and Mrs. Don L. Buckman. In 1945, Redwood Theatres, Inc., sold the Arbuckle Theatre to Ray and Clarice McFarlane, who operated it for 10 years.

The 1950 Film Daily Year Book listed the Arbuckle Theatre with 310 seats. In 1956, Richard Nannser and Walter G. Preddey sold the theatre building to Mr. and Mrs. Leo P. LaSalle, who planned to make the upper floor into a skating rink while living on the ground floor, per Boxoffice.

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