West End Theater / State Theater (Santa Ana, California)

West End Theater / State Theater (Santa Ana, California)

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The Haunting

The building identified in the supplied sources is a historic downtown Santa Ana theater on 4th Street commissioned in 1915 by developer L. A. Schlesinger and designed by architect James Flood Walker. Throughout the 20th century it operated under various names: it was later run by proprietor C. E. Walker as the State Theater, showed arthouse and foreign films in the 1960s as the Guild Theater, and operated as an adult movie house called the State Arts Theater in the 1970s. The venue closed in 1978 but the structure survived periods of downtown demolition and has since been repurposed as a cafe, according to the Wikipedia excerpt included in the supplied sources. The supplied research notes highlight a major geographic discrepancy: the research target was given as "Teatro de Santa Ana — Santa Ana (El Salvador)," but none of the provided sources reference El Salvador. All location-specific material supplied pertains to Santa Ana, California. The notes contain archival interviews and recordings tied to theatrical and performance activity in Santa Ana, California, which support the building's cultural role locally. No supplied source contains reports of paranormal phenomena, named spirits, or folklore tied to this site.

Community Record

Sources
  1. [1]
    West End Theater (Santa Ana) - Wikipedia. Wikipedia. "West End Theater (Santa Ana)." Accessed via supplied research notes.wiki
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    Entrevista Con Inmigrantes Teatro. Archive.org. "Entrevista Con Inmigrantes Teatro." Item referenced in supplied research notes; relates to theatrical presentations in Santa Ana, California.other
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    Knott's Berry Farm's Halloween Haunt "Weird Al's Halloween Pandemonium" (archive item). Archive.org recording cited in supplied research notes; included as an item connected to regional performance culture.other
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    String Cheese Incident Live at The Uptown Theatre on 2001-04-19 (archive item). Archive.org recording cited in supplied research notes; relates to performances in regional theaters referenced in the research materials.other
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