Daniel Humason decided to buy the theatre building. In September 1980, upon finding out that the requirement to build a new multiplex theatre had been removed as a requirement for the sale of the theatre, local historic preservationist J. There were no takers, perhaps in part due the requirement that any sale be tied to the construction of a new multiplex theatre elsewhere in the local area. In the late 1970s, Theater Properties Inc. The theatre was renamed the Hanford Theatre between mid-October and early November that year, when it was also reported to be managed by the West Side Valley Theatres chain. of San Francisco, for approximately $100,000.
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To complete the picture, the theatre’s fire/safety curtain (still extant) depicted a Spanish village with church bell tower, cypress trees, and terracotta-roofed buildings.Īfter a long run as a first-run movie theatre, at the start of June 1959 it was announced that Fox West Coast Theatres had come to an agreement to sell the Fox to Theatre Properties Inc.
The auditorium, designed in an atmospheric style, was intended to evoke the sense of sitting al fresco within a Spanish courtyard, with a starry sky above on which fleecy clouds would lazily drift past.
William Fox’s theatre chain built the Fox Theatre in Hanford during the last half of 1929, and the new movie theatre would include full stage facilities as well as dressing rooms and an orchestra pit, so that it could host vaudeville and stage performances in addition to screening movies.
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