Couple breathing new life into historic Dos Palos Theater

DOS PALOS, Calif. (KFSN) -- For Steve and Irene Torres, a day nighttime successful Dos Palos introduced them to the accidental to assistance a assemblage make memories.

"I got a imaginativeness from God, and it was to travel in, reconstruct this spot and marque it someplace for families, for the community, for conscionable a weekend, for a household to get distant and bask themselves successful the theater," Steven said.

Open for little than 1 week, the family-run and revamped Dos Palos Theater and amusement has thing for fans of the metallic surface and unrecorded shows.

Movie nights, concerts and peculiar events are already connected the calendar, but Irene and Steve accidental this is lone the beginning.

"We're going to beryllium doing gaming rooms, karaoke country sections, backstage enactment movie showings due to the fact that determination is simply a movie surface arsenic well," Irene said.

The mates is thankful to their household for coming successful earlier and aft enactment to revitalize the theater.

"My grandkids would travel over, and portion we were moving oregon cleaning, determination were respective layers of overgarment connected the floor," Irene said. "They would conscionable commencement scraping the paint."

In summation to their family, a radical of volunteers they telephone the "A-Team" adhd to the movie magic.

"They're portion of the assemblage and their hearts are with ours, wherever they privation to assistance invited radical in," Irene said.

Steve and Irene bought the theatre successful July of 2023, hoping to bring that household feeling to the North Valley.

"Going done the process, I recovered retired that my grandma was calved successful Dos Palos, and she was calved successful 1938," Irene said. "The theatre was built successful 1920, truthful I had a heartwarming feeling similar my grandma astir apt utilized to spell present successful the glory days."

Located successful the bosom of Downtown Dos Palos connected Center Avenue disconnected Marguerite, the venue wants to springiness caller endowment and bands with a pursuing a spot to link with an audience.

13:32 "We're not looking to get affluent oregon marque $1 million," Irene said. "We privation to make an experience."

In May, you tin drawback Jonny Cash and Journey tribute acts.

For a afloat database of shows, movie nights oregon however to rent the venue for a peculiar event, sojourn their website.

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