Glen Theatre
174 Castro Street,
Mountain View,
CA
94041
174 Castro Street,
Mountain View,
CA
94041
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Previous Names: Glenn Theatre
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Originally opened on July 31, 1909 as a storefront nickelodeon at a different location, the Glen Theatre moved into a new, purpose-built building in June, 1910. The new owner, local baker Fritz Campen, put his son Fritz Jr. in charge of the theatre, which was next door to the family’s bakery. Fritz Campen Jr. then ran the theatre throughout the remainder of its existence, closing it when he opened the new Mountain View Theatre in May, 1926. The Glen Theatre building was then converted for use as a retail store.
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Joe Vogel
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This web page has the only photo of the Glen Theatre I’ve seen on the Internet, and it’s thumbnail sized. The people in the photo are most likely Fritz Campen Jr., manager, and his sister Anna, who sold the tickets, but the caption doesn’t include this information.
The painted sign on the building reads “Glen Moving Picture Theatre” though by the time the house was listed in the Film Daily Yearbook it was spelled Glenn Theatre. That could have been a mistake by the FDY, so perhaps I should have reversed the page title and the aka. Also, the page subsequent to the one I linked to above says that the original Glen Theatre building was destroyed by a fire in 1949, so this theater can be marked as demolished.