Pantages Pasadena / Warner Bros. Pasadena / Mission

Both Alexander Pantages and Warner Bros. planned to build theatres in Pasadena in the late 1920s but neither project happened. Joe Vogel comments: 

"In 1927, the October 8 edition of Building and Engineering News reported that architect B. Marcus Priteca was preparing the working plans for a seven-story theater, commercial and office building at the southwest corner of Colorado and Hudson in Pasadena. 

 

"Had it been built, the new theater, which was to be leased to the Pantages circuit, would have seated about 2,200, making it a little over two thirds the size of the Hollywood Pantages, opened in 1930. The theater portion of the Pasadena Pantages was to have been 110x170 feet, and the frontage building containing the entrance and lobby would have been 116x90 feet.

"Another Pasadena theater that was planned but never built was a large house for Warner Bros., also to have been designed by Priteca, and slated for the corner of Colorado and Euclid, which is very near where the Arclight Pasadena is now located [now the Regal Paseo]. This theater probably would have been very much like the Warner houses Priteca designed for Beverly Hills, Huntington Park, and San Pedro at about the same time."

Thanks, Joe! His comments appeared on the Cinema Treasures page for the State Theatre in Pasadena.

Another unbuilt project was Henry Warner's Mission Theatre, planned in 1921. You can read all about it in the 2013 article by Sheryl Peters: "Mrs. Feynes and the Movies: The Mission Theater."  It originally appeared on the now-vanished site Hometown Pasadena. It's now on the website of the Pasadena Museum of History.

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