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Dateline: April 1943
The “Flying A” ceased operating in 1921. A few Hollywood studios came here to film on the studio’s property in the 1920s, but the end finally came in 1943 when the remaining studio property was demolished except for the studio building at the corner of Mission and Chapala streets, and a portion of the administration building that still stand. – Santa Barbara News-Press, April 4, 1943
Longtime Santa Barbara resident Mary Grimm told me that “During the war years in the 40s, the studios had been torn down and just the cement floors remained. The neighborhood kids used to go over there with our roller skates and brooms, sweep the trash aside, and have a grand time roller skating.”
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The “Flying A” movie studio was in Santa Barbara from 1912 to about 1921, and made more than 1,000 movies (many of them shorts). You can learn more here: https://flyinga.filmandmedia.ucsb.edu/
Is there info on what Films were shot there? The Flying “A” Studios operated largely in the late 1800’s?