Bob Baker Marionette Theater in Los Angeles

Conejo Valley Guide reader Leslie from Thousand Oaks recommends taking the kids to check out the nostalgic Bob Baker Marionette Theater at 1345 W. 1st Avenue in Los Angeles.  Bob Baker has been around for 50 years and he has an inventory of over 3,000 puppets!  Visit www.bobbakermarionettes.com to learn more and reserve tickets!

"The Bob Baker Marionette theater has been in business since I was a child. My parents took me there when I was three or four (I'm native to the area), and I never forgot the experience. The magical images really stuck in my mind. Having those beautiful marionettes come right up to me what just incredible. Of course, having been so young, I was never quite sure of when/where the experience took place. At times I thought the images might have been part of a dream.

I had no idea that they were still in business until I saw an article in the L.A. Times that they were struggling financially. So my mother and I took my kids there in December to see their version of the Nutcracker. It was amazing, the show was exactly the same as I remembered. The theater is old and a little dirty, and the staff are quite a bunch of characters, but the obvious bottom line is that they GET children, they love children, and their humanity is intact. They have not prostituted their talent for the sake of money. I was touched and charmed by the whole experience. I highly recommend it. I couldn't walk out of there without buying an original signed Bob Baker marionette, I was so charmed by it all."