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Both buildings were named after Petaluma pioneer, John Augustus McNear (1832–1918). [6] [7] Starting in the 1920s, the space served as a movie theater and went by many names including the State Theater, the Plaza Theater, and the Palace Theater. [8] [9] On July 19, 1992, the venue opened as the Mystic Theatre with the first show, Arc Angels. [9]
A large crowd watches Deerhoof at the Phoenix Theater in Petaluma. The Phoenix Theater first opened in 1905 as the Hill Opera House, a small town opera house. In the early 1920s, it was nearly destroyed by a fire forcing the theater to be shut down. By 1925, it had been restored and opened as a movie theater. The building was purchased by ...
The theater, a 1908 schoolhouse, was purchased by Marvin Klebe (1935–1999) and his wife and love Jan Klebe in 1970 as a venue to produce opera and musical theater. The Klebes converted it into a theater with much family and community help including the talents of Marvin's San Francisco Opera Company colleague, soprano Sylvia Davis (1937-).
1973 American Graffiti- Many scenes filmed in and around downtown Petaluma. Drag race scenes on Petaluma Blvd and near the end of the movie on Frates Rd. 1984 Impulse - Farm sequences filmed in Petaluma. 1986 Howard the Duck Flight scenes with Petaluma Bridge. 1997 Inventing the Abbotts Downtown scenes. They brought in a snow machine.
Petaluma is a city in Sonoma County, California, located in the North Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area. Its population is, according to World Population Review, 58,489 people. It was 59,776 according to the 2020 census. [5] Petaluma's name comes from the Miwok village named Péta Lúuma that was located on the banks of the Petaluma River.
After the movie, audience members were allowed to disassemble their seats and take them home as souvenirs of the theater. Of the first seven theaters, the downtown Austin theater was unique for being the host of many important film events in Austin, such as the Quentin Tarantino Film Festival and Harry Knowles's annual Butt-numb-a-thon.
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It was with Sally Field, Henry Winkler, and Harrison Ford. I was at the Petaluma race track when it was filmed.166.214.165.59 04:19, 10 December 2006 (UTC)Kenneth Averett . I recall another movie that came in for the wrist wrestling championships (not the atrocious Stallone film that occurred elsewhere, there was another one around that time.)