{"id":604,"date":"2010-10-09T12:26:43","date_gmt":"2010-10-09T12:26:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/?p=604"},"modified":"2010-10-09T12:28:40","modified_gmt":"2010-10-09T12:28:40","slug":"the-garden-theatre-a-wage-row","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/2010\/10\/09\/the-garden-theatre-a-wage-row\/","title":{"rendered":"The Garden Theatre & A Wage Row"},"content":{"rendered":"
On October 1, 1919, the Garden Theatre <\/a>opened in La Habra, originally operating as both a vaudeville and motion picture venue. The theatre was later renamed the “La Habra” and managed to last until the mid 1950’s, when Lippert Theatres\u00a0announced that they would be opening their own “La Habra Theatre” in town. The former Garden then sat vacant for\u00a0nearly a decade, before being razed during a city revitalization project.\u00a0<\/div>\n
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Unfortunately, little documentation remains of the Garden Theatre, with even the\u00a0venue’s prime years recorded via little more than a city listing in the newspaper’s independent theatre section (an all too common situation for early twentieth century suburban cinemas).\u00a0However, there appears to\u00a0have been one noteworthy event\u00a0in the Garden’s history which did manage to\u00a0garner some attention, all be it of the negative variety.<\/div>\n
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Back in the winter of 1931, the theatre’s then owner, Darius Morehead, was involved in a\u00a0dispute with a former employee,\u00a0which escalated to Mr. Morehead pulling out a handgun and shooting the Garden’s former manager. According to newspaper accounts of the incident, the former theatre manager, Kenneth Renaud, had been shorted his $50 a week salary and taken the matter to\u00a0the labor commission. After the commission ruled in Mr. Renaud’s favor, awarding him $175, Morehead sought out the complainant and shot him twice,\u00a0during a heated argument. Mr. Renaud survived the attack and Morehouse was arrested for the crime. Yet, strangely, the paper trail fell silent after\u00a0the arrest; so, we are left to speculate whether the “rich theatre owner” faced justice for the “wage row” or not.\u00a0\u00a0<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On October 1, 1919, the Garden Theatre opened in La Habra, originally operating as both a vaudeville and motion picture venue. The theatre was later renamed the “La Habra” and managed to last until the mid 1950’s, when Lippert Theatres\u00a0announced that they would be opening their own “La Habra Theatre” in town. The former Garden […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-theatre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=604"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":607,"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604\/revisions\/607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}