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Merced staple. The Mainzer Theater has been one of the city’s key architectural hallmarks since the its construction in the 1930s. The new Strand Theatre was built in 1937 by the the Golden ...
The building was originally a theater for live stage performances. At the time, it was known as The Strand Theater. After years of declining business, the theater became a second-run house, playing old Hollywood blockbusters at discounted rates, again, with little success. Finally the theater was shut down due to lack of business in the mid 1990s.
The Merced Theatre is located at 301 W. Main Street, at the corner of Main Street and Martin Luther King Way, in Merced, California. [2] The theatre is significant both for its role as the social and cultural center of Merced from the Depression through the post World War II era and for its mix of Art Deco and Spanish Colonial Revival architecture.
In the early 1990s, Harkins acquired several theaters operated by Mann Theatres. Most of the theaters acquired were a result of a lawsuit. [10] In 1988, Harkins re-opened the Cine Capri theater in Phoenix. The original Cine Capri was the largest screen in Arizona, measuring more than 70 feet (21 m) long.
Business owners and city officials met during an outreach meeting to discuss features to the “Main Street One-Way” project, an experimental pilot program initially approved by Merced City ...
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This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Merced County, ... Merced Theatre. May 1, 2009 ... 655-661 West Main St.