Description
The Palms Theatre was a Vincent Raney design for Vallejo, CA – rendered by Roy Watanabe and dated 1941. More atmospheric than a cleanly delineated building like the Dahl – he’s trying to capture the feeling of a night out on the town and with the theater being the showpiece. The spotlights, people and the cars are pretty neat but the theater was never built. You can see the locations of other theaters by Vincent Raney here.
About the Artist
Vincent G. Raney
Raney was born in 1905 in Loogootee, Indiana. He attended the University of Indiana, then received a degree in architectural engineering from the University of Illinois in 1929. He also attended the University of Arizona, in 1930.
Raney worked for H.G. Atherton in Anderson, Indiana; and for Frederick H. Reimers, Masten & Hurd, and William I. Garren in San Francisco, 1930-36. In 1937, Raney started his own company, under his own name. He specialized in building and design of multiplex theaters for Syufy Enterprises.
In 1939, he designed a house for the Golden Gate Exposition on Treasure Island. Notable for its high ceilings, floor-to-ceiling windows, and access to a garden from almost every room, it was named the Sunshine House. It was sold in a raffle, with tickets costing one dollar. The home was built to encourage home building and buying after years after the ten years of the Great Depression. The winners sold the house immediately, for $7,000. It sold for $845,000 in 2004.
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