Opened: Perhaps the debut was in 1910.
Local historian John M. Houston gives a 1910 date to it running as a film house called Fisher's Theatre in an article by Bob Beck in the May 30, 1984 San Pedro News Pilot. The article was saved in a clipping file in the collection of the San Pedro Bay Historical Society. Thanks to Michelle Gerdes for snapping a photo of it.
The research of the Grand Vision Foundation (the Friends of the Warner Grand organization) lists just a 1910 date for it. Houston notes that it was renamed the Idle Hour Theatre c.1911.
Closing: Sorry, no data. Also nearby (and perhaps even the same location as Fisher's) was the Majestic Theatre at 407 S. Beacon St. That house opened around 1914.
Status: It's long gone. The 400 and 500 blocks of Beacon are no more. Today the location where the theatre once was is about halfway along the relocated 5th St. between Harbor Blvd. and Palos Verdes St. 5th, which used to go straight east to meet Harbor Blvd., acquired a wiggle to the north during the 1970s Beacon St. redevelopment project.
The David Rumsay Map Collection has a fine 1938 Thomas Brothers San Pedro and Wilmington map online if you'd care to look at the original layout. Also see a detail of the downtown area from the map.
On the relocated 5th St., with this stretch just west of Harbor Blvd. about where 4th St. used to be. We're looking west toward where the vanished 4th and Beacon intersection once was. Beacon is now an unnamed alley just this side of the construction project on the left. Photo: Google Maps - 2019
More information: Well, there isn't any yet.
Theatres with a similar name: We had a theatreman by the name of E.A. Fischer come down from San Francisco and open several theatres bearing his name. On 1st St. in downtown L.A. in 1905 he opened a theatre later known as the Princess. In 1908 he opened the Chronophone Theatre on Spring St., a venue later known as Horne's Big Show. The Lyceum Theatre on Spring St. was for a time called Fischer's Lyceum. There was also a Fischer's Theatre in Pasadena, later known as the Oaks Theatre.
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