Strand Theatre
630 State Street,
Santa Barbara,
CA
93101
630 State Street,
Santa Barbara,
CA
93101
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The theatre opened or placed its first ad as Argus on May 30th, 1913. It was renamed Lloyd’s on November 13th, 1917, and then Strand on June 14th, 1919. It closed in 1920. Grand opening ads posted.
The Argus Theatre was designed by Los Angeles architect A.L.Valk. It was a conversion and expansion of an existing retail building, and was announced in the March 20, 1913 issue of Builder & Contractor magazine.
Arthur Lawrence Valk was referred to as a “…motion picture specialist….” in an article in the October 11, 1913 issue of Southwest Contractor and Manufacturer magazine, at the time he closed his office and joined in a partnership with his father, architect Lawrence Bolton Valk.