We’ll visit the Fox Theatre for a screening of THE ROARING TWENTIES.
On January 15-16 the Art Deco Society of Los Angeles invites you to join us for a members only weekend of bootleg cocktails, vintage cinema, historic architecture and socializing in a Kern County city almost synonymous with hospitality.
Bakersfield, California. Just over 100 miles north of Los Angeles. A place of oil drills, farmland, and bootleggers! Via the newly completed Castaic-Tejon Route (Ridge Route) escape from the southern reaches of the Golden State to tour the treasures of this growing metropolis at the base of the San Joaquin Valley. Taking its name from the alfalfa field of Col. Thomas Baker that was used to rest and feed the horses of travelers, the city remains a place for guests to find refreshments of all kinds.
From the Kress Building (1931) to the Nile Theater (1906, remodeled in 1927), walk with Professor Douglas Dodd of Cal State, Bakersfield on a tour of the downtown’s Art Deco and Art Deco-era buildings. Spend an evening sipping Prohibition cocktails in the Prospect Lounge of the Padre Hotel (1928) all the while learning about bootlegging in Kern County from Mr. Richard Roux, author of Bootleggers, Booze, and Busts: Prohibition in Kern County, 1919-1933 and followed by dancing to music orchestrated by the society’s own Mr. Walter Nelson. Round off the weekend with Mr. James Cagney and Miss Priscilla Lane as the Bakersfield Fox (1930) hosts a Sunday afternoon screening of The Roaring Twenties (1939). And in between all that you’ll have time for shopping in some the city’s vintage goods purveyors.
Please note that full weekend package tickets to this event will be extremely limited. Upper level members (Sponsoring level and above) will have the first opportunity to attend. Only tickets to see The Roaring Twenties film starring James Cagney, will be sold a la carte. These tickets are available directly from the Fox Theatre. More details are available by clicking schedule.
Additional information
• Tickets are $140 per person. All events detailed are included in the one ticket price. Transportation and hotel are not included. Suggestions for hotels will be provided. Refunds will be granted through January 7, 2022 for the $140 ticket, minus a service fee of $25 per ticket. If you wish to transfer your ticket to someone else, please let us know. We are now taking a waiting list since the event is sold out.
• Parking: There is plenty of inexpensive parking in Bakersfield, including a large multi-story carpark just across the road from The Padre.
• Accommodations: There are number of places to stay in the Bakersfield. However, only The Padre is in the center of downtown and most convenient for the event. No convention rate is available.
• All the sponsored events are within walking distance of each other – The Padre and the Fox are three short blocks away in the very center of downtown. Within three blocks of The Padre are a number of good restaurants – some housed in historic buildings – as well as distinctive cocktail bars.
• Bakersfield is well-known for its many antique and vintage stores. Again, most of these just blocks from the Padre. A list of the more prominent and largest will be included in the information packet