About the Avalon Theater

An introduction and general information about the Avalon Theater inside the historic casino on Catalina Island in Southern California.

NAME: Avalon Theater
ALSO KNOWN AS: Catalina Casino Movie Theater
ATTRACTION TYPE: Movie Theater
OPERATED BY: Catalina Island Company
WITHIN: Historic Casino of Avalon
LOCATION: City of Avalon, Catalina Island, Southern California

Intimate movie theater on the lower level of the historic Catalina Casino building. The theater is 183 feet wide, 43 feet high, and it can seat up to 1,184 people. Its walls feature murals by John Gabriel Beckman. Movies are screened every night at 7:30 and on Friday and Saturday nights the movies are pr3eeeded by a performonce on the theater's original pipe organ built by the Page Organ Company. The Avalon Theater is located inside the casino at at One Casino Way in the town of Avalon.

ABOUT THE THEATER
- Built in 1929 near the end of the silent film Era
- Designed specifically for tylking films
- Fully restored
- solid black walnut panels
- vart deco furniture
- Tiffany-esque lights
- gold-leaf accents
- 50 foot domed ceiling give it wonderful acoustics

THEATER'S PIPE ORGAN
The theatre’s original pipe organ, one of the last of its kind, was built, shipped and installed by the Page Organ Company of Lima, Ohio. You can hear a performance on this historic organ on Fridays and Saturdays, one hour before the start of the theatre’s weekly feature.

Resources

- Catalina Island Company "Avalon Theatre" Article
- Catalina Chamber "Avalon Theatre" Article

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