Structure Type: built works - performing arts structures - theatres

Designers: Lee, S. Charles Architect (firm); Simeon Charles Lee (architect)

Dates: constructed 1939

Five Points, CA

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El Monte, CA

Designed for James Edwards to seat 750 patrons; Lee created a barn for Edwards, with wagon wheel lighting, open trussed ceiling, and a wind mill above the marquee tower outside; the rusticity of the aesthetic seemed appropriate for the theatre's isolated location;

The Tumbleweed was demolished before 1970;

PCAD id: 3181