Crescent Theatre
303 Guadalupe Street,
Guadalupe,
CA
93443
303 Guadalupe Street,
Guadalupe,
CA
93443
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The Crescent Theatre was located in the long-gone Commercial Hotel at the corner of 3rd Street and Guadalupe Street. The hotel and movie theatre were opened in 1912.
Film Daily Year Book 1926 lists the Crescent Theatre with 240 seats and as closed in 1940.
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The September 16, 1922 issue of Moving Picture World mentions Guadalupe, though it doesn’t give a theater name. It said that Campadonica [sic] Brothers, Guadalupe, Cal. were among those who had recently bought Simplex projection equipment from the Los Angeles offices of Argus Enterprises, Inc.. (The correct spelling of the family name is Campodonico. That family’s patriarch, Stephen Francis Campodonico, had been in Guadalupe since at least 1895, when he opened a store. The town today still has a Campodonico Street.)
This article from the Santa Maria Times of March 5, 1946 gives some early history of the Commercial Hotel and its theater. They were both owned by the Campodonico brothers, and both opened in 1912. The premises were originally leased to other operators, but Charles Campodonico bought out one of the leasing partners in 1913 and the other in 1914, and thereafter operated at least the hotel by himself until selling the property in 1946.
As noted in the MPW item cited in my previous comment, the Campodonico brothers were operating the theater themselves by 1922 (but probably much earlier.) Most likely the house closed when the Royal Theatre opened nearby in 1940. The Times article makes reference to “[t]he Campodonico Theatre….” presenting movies, vaudeville and travelling shows in the period leading up to WWI, so that might have been an aka in the early years.