Rialto Theatre, Historic movie theater in South Pasadena, United States.
The Rialto Theatre is a movie theater with around 1,200 seats that combines Spanish Baroque architecture with Egyptian design elements. The building features a deep stage and balcony seating on both sides of the auditorium.
The theater was built in 1925 by architect Lewis A. Smith and first served as a silent film venue with a Wurlitzer organ. Weekend vaudeville performances were also held there in its early years.
The Rialto's name comes from Venice's Rialto bridge and market district, a common choice for grand cinemas of the 1920s. Since 2017 the building has housed one of six campuses of Mosaic, a non-denominational multi-site church based in Los Angeles, so the auditorium now hosts services rather than screenings.
The building is located on Fair Oaks Avenue and currently serves as a campus for Mosaic Church. Visitors can view it from the outside and learn more about its status on the National Register of Historic Places.
In 1977 there was an attempt to convert the theater into a parking lot, but the plan failed and the building was saved. The final film shown there in 2007 was The Simpsons Movie.
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