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Rating: 5 | Votes: 1 | Date: 03/07/2026 00:33:00

The longest-running puppet theater in America lives in a 1920s movie house in Highland Park. Bob Baker and Alton Wood founded the Bob Baker Marionette Theater in 1963 in a converted scenic shop at 1345 West 1st Street on the edge of downtown Los Angeles, and for 55 years the cinder-block building hosted the same magic: red-clad puppeteers working hand-crafted marionettes inches from children seated in a circle on the floor, through original shows running from Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker to musical ...