Wayne, Joseph

JOSEPH WAYNE, Wayne was a Petaluma photographer in the early 1900’s. He owned the GEM Theater in Petaluma where he displayed magic lantern images. It has been asserted that he named the GEM Theater after his children. It has also been asserted that Wayne was a red headed child who came across the plains in a covered wagon. His descendants are the Poehlmann & Wayne families currently living in Petaluma.