Thank you to our amazing Alhambra Irish House regulars and friends Stu and Mark for finding very interesting history about the original Alhambra Bar &Alhambra Theater owner Charles Josselyn . They were able to find book written by him and signed by Josselyn himself. They were also able to find the only painting of inside of famous Alhambra Theater from 1896. Many very famous guests were visiting Alhambra since they opened, one of them Wyatt Earp . Alhambra Theater. Built in 1895, this building was designed by noted architect A. Page Brown (architect for the San Francsico Ferry Building). The Alhambra, with a seating capacity of 1500 persons, was the finest theater building between San Francisco and San Jose when it opened in 1896. Downstairs was the Alhambra Bar, where former deputy Wyatt Earp of OK Corral fame frequently visited in the 1890s. The 1906 earthquake destroyed the original California Mission Revival Style facade and a second, stropped down Mission Style facade replaced it in 1910. The Masonic Order purchased the building in 1921 and converted the upstairs theater to their meeting hall; the downstairs was leased out as a retail area. When the Masonic Lodge took over the theater building, the two structures were unified with a common facade. When the Prohibition Act forced the saloon to close its doors in 1920, a great deal of renovation was done and the space served as a meeting place for various groups including a branch of the fraternal Freemasonry organization. During the Prohibition Era, Redwood City was one of the only cities in the Bay Area to fully adopt the Anti-Saloon League’s mandates: not a single speakeasy existed within the city confines. The Alhambra continued to serve as an “alcohol-free “ meeting place until the 1950s. @rwcpulse @myshellie23