Nile Theatre
1721 19th Street,
Bakersfield,
CA
93301
1721 19th Street,
Bakersfield,
CA
93301
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The Nile’s 60’s bookings:
1960:
1/01/60: A Summer Polace; Johnny Rocco
1/06/60: Happy Anniversary; Pier 5 Havana
1/13/60: The Boy and the Laughing Dog; King Richard and the Crusaders
1/20/60: Cash McCall; Crooked Circle
1/27/60: The Miracle; Seven Guns to Mesa
(1/30/60: Sat kid’s show: War of the Satellites; cartoons; 3 Stooges; serial: Ghost Rider of the West)
2/03/60: On the Beach; Gunfighters of Abilene
(2/06/60: Sat Kid’s show: 7 Men From Now; cartoons; comedies; serial)
(2/13/60: Sat kid’s show: Sabre Jet; cartoons; comedies; serial)
2/17/60: Solomon and Sheba; Oklahoma Territory
(2/20/60: Sat Kids: Bowery Boys feature; cartoons; comedies; serial)
(2/27/60: Sat kids: Shootout at Medicine Bend; cartoons; comedies; serial)
3/02/60: The Bramble Bush; The Scavengers
(3/05/60: Sat kids: Enemy From Space (1 hr. cartoons – comics)
3/09/60: The Purple Gang; The Atomic Submarine
3/15/60: Some Like It Hot; A Hole in the Head
3/23/60: The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond
3/27/60: Bend of the River; The World in his Arms
3/30/60: Guns of Timberland; As Long As You’re Near Me
(4/02/60: Sneak Preview)
4/06/60: The Nun’s STory; Anatomy of a Murder
4/14/60: Tall Story; Israel
(4/16/60: Sneak Preview)
4/22/60: Carry On Nurse; Carnival Story
4/29/60: David and Bathseheba; Love is a Many Splendord Thing (cartoon, news)
5/06/60: Female and the Flesh; Mutiny
5/11/60: Alexander the Great; The King and Four Queens
(5/14/60: Sneak Preview)
5/18/60: Mississippi Gambler; Up Front
5/21/60: Pillow Talk; The Perfect Furlough
5/25/60: The Unforgiven; The Music Box Kid
(5/28/60: Sat kids: Whata Panic!; Abott & Costello & the Bowery Boys)
6/01/60: Sayonara; Battle Cry
(6/04/60: Sat kids: Francis in the Haunted House; Drums Across the River)
6/08/60: The Gallant Hours; Take a Giant Step (cartyoon, news)
(6/10/60: Friday kids: Double Feature)
6/15/60: Sergeant Rutledge; The Threat
6/22/60: Hannibal; This Rebel Breed
6/30/60: The Fugitive Kind; The Pusher
7/06/60: Hercules Unchained; The Rebel Set
7/16/60: Macumba Love; 3 Came To Kill!
7/20/60: Around the World in 80 Days; The Boy and the Pirates (cartoon, news)
7/27/60: Ice Palace; Noose For a Gunman
8/03/60: Pay or Die; Bluebeard’s Honeymoon
8/10/60: The Apartment; Cage of Evil
8/17/60: Oceans 11; Blonde Blackmailer
8/31/60: Hell To Eternity; New Orleans After Dark
9/14/60: Elmer Gantry (featurette: Snow Carnival, cartoon, news)
9/18/60: The Crowded Sky; Cover Girl Killer
9/23/60: The Night Fighters; The Great St. Louis Bank Robbery (cartoon, news)
10/02/60: Sitting Bull; TGhe Indian Fighter
10/05/60: Nature’s Paradise; The Wicked Go to Hell
10/12/60: The Dark at the Top of the Stairs; 2nd feature
10/19/60: Sex Kittens Go to College; The Conquerer
10/26/60: Studs Lonigan; Bundle of Joy
(10/29/60: Midnight show: 3 monster features)
10/30/60: The Miracle of Our Lady of Fatima!
11/03/60: Inherit the Wind; Ski Troop Attack
(11/05/60: 20-30 Club Sat Mats: cartoons plus feature)
(11/12/60: 20-30 Club Sat mat: Bullwhip; cartoons)
11/16/60: Sunrise at Campobello (travelogue – Black Forest, cartoon, news)
(11/19/60: 20-30 Club sat mat – n/a)
11/19/60: Sunrise at Campobello; The Pagans
11/23/60: The Magnificent Seven; Walking Target
(11/25/60: Friday Sneak Preview – possibly Facts of Life)
(11/26/60: Sat kids matinee)
11/30/60: Girl of the Night; The Prime Time
12/09/60: Herod the Great; Heroes Die Young
12/14/60: Hondo; Mr. Roberts
12/18/60: The Incredible Petrified World; Teenage Zombies
12/23/60: The Facts of Life; Menace in the Night
12/31/60: The Sundowners; The Police Dog Story
(12/31/60: Sneak Preview)
BTW, the above 1968 date given for the LAPL photo is actually from 1969, as the marquee attraction THE SHOES OF THE FISHERMAN played its first-run engagement from February 26-March 19, 1969.
Two of the four celing lamps described above were sold to the Bakersfield Community Theatre when the theatre was twinned in 1976 and to this day hang in the live theatre’s ceiling (they actually bought all four but trashed two of them).
Here is a picture of them originally inside the Nile Theatre when it opened in 1938:
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Walnut Porperties/Pussyact Theatres either owned or had the master lease on this house for a while (no, it never ran porn as far as I know). I was at this house two or three times on service calls on orders from Mr. Tate in the early or mid ‘80s. It seems to me that the first name of the man who leased this house from Walnut was Russ. They were always having platter problems due to projectionists with happy hands. Just for the record, the platters were Chrisite AW-2 and the house had two screens at the time.
Here are some recent photos of the Nile:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/cakeight/3714662263
http://www.flickr.com/photos/cakeight/3714663303
http://www.flickr.com/photos/cakeight/3715475172
Here is a 1982 photo:
http://tinyurl.com/dg67xr
Here’s a 1920 photo of the Nile Theatre from the Kern County Museum: http://www.kcmuseum.org/stories/storyReader$1250
Here is a 1968 photo from the LAPL:
http://jpg3.lapl.org/pics41/00070085.jpg
Saw “All The Presidents Men”, Mc Cabe & Mrs. Miller" and a couple
of Clint Eastwood “Dirty Harry” movies there in the “70’s.
The Nile will reopen this year as The Nile Bar and Grill. It will be the biggest attraction downtown has had in a long time.
I remember that the Nile Theatre has these beautiful ceiling lamps, large and round. Too bad it remains closed.
The interior is currently being converted into a night club, according to the locals. The exterior has not changed, yet!
The interior is currently being converted into a night club, according to the locals. The exterior has not changed, yet!
During the 40’s the Nile Theatre was operated by Fox West Coast Theatres.
The Nile Theatre seated 771 people.
That should rfead “sans” (without) balcony and stage.
The original Nile Theatre was completely razed in January, 1938. A completely new Nile Theatre, sand balcony and stage with loft, was constructed for $125,000. The grand opening was in May, 1938.