Yost Theater

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Yost Theater-Ritz Hotel
U.S. National Register of Historic Places

Location:	301--307 N. Spurgeon St. Santa Ana, California
Added to NRHP:	January 23, 1986
NRHP Reference#:	86000107

The Yost Theater is a Nationally recognized Historic Place located in Santa Ana's Downtown Historic District. Under the ownership of the Olivos Family it became a movie house for the Golden Age of Mexican Cinema. In recent years it has housed various church organizations and as of October 2007 is vacant.

[edit] History

The Yost first opened as The Auditorium in 1913. It then was renamed the Clunes the same year. It was not until Ed Yost purchased the theater that it acquired the name Yost Theater. In 1950 the theater was leased to Luis Olivos, father of Louie Olivos Jr.