Visalia Fox Theatre Traditional Cache

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Hidden : 2/20/2016
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FOX THEATER

Designed and constructed from 1929-30 by Los Angeles-based architect Clifford A. Balch and engineer Floyd E. Stanbery, the Visalia Fox Theatre was erected at the end of the Silent Film era at a cost of $225,000 (2.9 million in 2010 dollars). It is one of many such theaters throughout the United States and Canada built by William Fox and his Fox Film Corporation, later to become 20th Century Fox.

The Fox Theatre opened on February 27, 1930. Opening night featured a talkie western, a newsreel, a Mickey Mouse cartoon and a Laurel and Hardy comedy. The theatre and the streets around it were packed for the premiere—quite a feat in a town of 7,000—an indication of the central role it would play in the community for decades to come.

The Fox would remain a one-screen auditorium theater for over 45 years until 1976 when most movie theaters were becoming multiplexes. Having been purchased by the expanding Mann Theater corporation, and in order to stay in competition with two triplex movie theatres opening in Visalia around the same time, the one-auditorium was split into three screens. The ground level of the theatre was divided into two auditoriums, with two different screens, while the balcony of the theater became the third auditorium. The Fox would continue with this format showing first-run movies for 20 years until late 1996 when Mann built a 12-screen multiplex in the Sequoia Mall on the other side of town. With the opening of the new multiplex, Mann shut down the doors to the Fox after 66 years of showing movies. It wasn't very long before the Fox would be restored to it's same mint condition as the day it opened in 1930.

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