New Bell Theatre
1421 7th Street,
Sanger,
CA
93657
1421 7th Street,
Sanger,
CA
93657
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The New Bell Theatre was opened in 1916. The Film Daily Year Book 1926-1932 lists the New Bell Theatre with 400 seats.
Moving Pictures are listed on Sanborn Maps 1916 at #6 7th Street and the Fresno Bee gave the address of the Bell Theatre as 119 W. 7th Street. By 1923 the Maps were updated to 1421 7th Street. It was closed as a silent movie theatre on May 5, 1929.
The 1945 Sanborn Maps show the building replaced by shops.
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The Bell Theatre opened in 1916 by Mr. and Mrs. M.S. Owings. But 13 years later the bells tolled for the venue when the competing New Sanger got sound in 1929 and a new Sanger was under construction. Mrs. Owings and M.C. Armstrong operated to closure on May 5, 1929 under competition from the sound film era’s New Sanger Theatre and an even better theater under construction.