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Building History

The Fox West Coast Theaters, Incorporated, owned the Fox Theatre in San Bernardino, part of $30 million facilities upgrade undertaken by the company during 1928-1929. Fox spent a large amount of money adding sound to its California theatres and also building Fox Movietone City, a $20 million production facility in Los Angeles responsible for producing Fox Movietone newsreels.

The Fox chain relocated Charles H. Wuerz, formerly manager of the year-old Fox West Coast California Theatre, as the Fox Theatre's first manager.

An article in the Needles Desert Star said of the Fox's opening: "The new Fox theater, located on Court street, between Arrowhead Avenue and D Street, having entrances both on Court and D streets, will seat 2200 persons. While the theater building is of Spanish architecture, the interior decorations, according to Mr. Wuerz, will be entirely modernistic." (See "New Fox Theater in San Bernardino Opens Next Month," Needles Desert Star, 08/30/1929, p. 4.)

PCAD id: 23820