Arbuckle Theatre

Joe Vogel on April 21, 2025 at 1:00 pm

Arbuckle had a movie house at least by 1914, when the AMPD listed it under the (probably generic) name M. P. Theatre. And then this brief item from the October 3, 1914 issue of Moving Picture World also failed to provide a name for the house: “J. Dunnigan has purchased the interests of E. J. Miller in the moving picture house conducted at Arbuckle, Cal.”

A list of independent vaudeville houses published in the November 7, 1914 issue of The Billboard included the 350-seat Opera, Arbuckle, California, managed by E. J. Miller. It might be that the Opera was not the picture house involved in the transaction between Miller and Dunnigan. E. J. Miller was still being noted as a theater operator at Arbuckle in the March 16, 1926 issue of the Colusa Herald.