Novelty Theatre

Joe Vogel on July 28, 2025 at 11:47 am

A 1995 newspaper item on the SF gate web site says the Novelty Theatre was built around 1910 and originally operated by George Roy, a partner in the San Bruno Lumber Company. However, a caption in Arcadia Publishing Company’s book about San Bruno says that the Novelty was built by Walter Ricci, who had earlier opened a bicycle shop in the town, though it gives no dates for either event.

Among the theater closings listed in the October 9, 1927 Film Daily was the Novelty, San Bruno, but I don’t know if this was the final closing or just a temporary closing.