Career
According to the August 3, 1921 New York Clipper, the Turner & Dahnken Circuit was one of the largest independently owned picture playhouses in the country. lieutenant operated the Tivoli Opera House, and T & Doctorate theaters in Oakland, Berkeley, Richmond, Sacramento, San Jose, Stockton, Watsonville and Salinas. At the time, they also owned the franchise for First National Pictures in Northern California and a part of the State of New New York
In 1922, West Coast Theatres, Incorporated., purchased the rights, franchises, leases and theatres held by the Turner & Dahnken Circuit, which at the time controlled forty theaters in California.
