Fox Sunkist Theatre
445 N. Garey Avenue,
Pomona,
CA
91767
445 N. Garey Avenue,
Pomona,
CA
91767
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Previously operated by: Fox West Coast Theatres
Architects: Simeon Charles Lee
Functions: Retail
Previous Names: Sunkist Theatre
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The Sunkist Theatre opened November 4, 1931 as part of the short-lived Hughes-Franklin circuit. It was soon taken over by Fox West Coast Theatres. It was closed in January 1956. The building was converted into a retail arcade.
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The Sunkist Theatre opened on 4th November 1931 with a given seating capacity of 888.
This was in the LA Times dated 3/10/57:
Transformation of the old Sunkist Theater into an arcade of small specialty shops and professional offices is now under way. Known as the Garey Arcade, the new building will be finished in terrazo and white marble with plantings of palms and Hawaiian ferns in front of the concrete and brick building.
Here is a photo of the current occupant. It doesn’t look like the description above, so closed/demolished is probably accurate:
http://tinyurl.com/39asua
Opening date was 11/8/31. It was erected by the Uptown Theater corp. and leased to the Hughes-Franklin theater company. Manager and chief instigator of the theater’s opening was Frank R. Bresson.
I went in the building today. I don’t think it was ever a theater. Here is an exterior photo:
http://tinyurl.com/42ewvd
Here is a photo from the LAPL:
http://jpg1.lapl.org/00080/00080197.jpg
Several business are listed at the address now,must be a shopping center or office building.
The retail arcade there was the former theatre building, per the article at http://www.dailybulletin.com/arts-and-entertainment/20160901/secret-in-pomona-forgotten-sunkist-theatre-was-owned-by-howard-hughes
Grand opening ads posted.
Sunkist theatre in Pomona opening 03 Nov 1931, Tue The Pomona Progress Bulletin (Pomona, California) Newspapers.com