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authorchristopherstone commented about Hardy's Theatre on Feb 19, 2020 at 1:10 pm

I literally saw hundreds of movies at the Hardys Theatre during the1950s and 1960s. “Everything from "Love Me Or Leave Me,” and “Some Like It Hot,” to “Tom Thumb,” “West Side Story,” “The King of Kings,” and “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?”

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authorchristopherstone commented about Manchester Mall Cinema on Feb 19, 2020 at 1:06 pm

I saw “The Graduate” at this theater.

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authorchristopherstone commented about Moon-Glo Drive-In on Feb 19, 2020 at 1:01 pm

As a child, I saw many double features at the MoonGlo.

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authorchristopherstone commented about Tower Theatre for the Performing Arts on Feb 19, 2020 at 12:51 pm

On my Twelfth Birthday, my parents took me to see Alfred Hitchcock’s “Psycho” here!

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authorchristopherstone commented about Crest Theatre on Feb 19, 2020 at 12:49 pm

How very many Twentieth Century-Fox releases I saw at this theatre, circa 1955-1969: Everything from “Three Coins in the Fountain,” and “Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing,” to “Can-Can,” and “There’s No Business Like Show Business.” In its day, a real movie palace!

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authorchristopherstone commented about Towne Cinema on Feb 19, 2020 at 12:43 pm

Dan:

In the mid-late 1960s, I regularly attended The Fine Arts Theatre. Rather than being a porno venue, the Fine Arts booked foreign-language films, most of which were much racier than American films of the era.

For example, I clearly remember seeing several Sophia Loren-Marcello Mastroianni comedies there. To my memory, the theater was still showing foreign films when I moved away in September 1969.

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authorchristopherstone commented about Towne Cinema on Feb 16, 2017 at 12:01 pm

In its day as the Sequoia, the theater was strictly first-run venue. The multi Oscar-winning musical, “Gigi,” had its first Fresno run there – as did “Bye, Bye Birdie,” “The Time Machine,” and “Viva, Las Vegas.” It had a large orchestra seating section, with three or four steps up to mezzanine seating.

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authorchristopherstone commented about Sunset Drive-In on Feb 16, 2017 at 11:54 am

As a child in Fresno, I was in the back seat for movies at the Sunset. Back then, the price of admission was a scant one dollar per carload of movie-goers. The Sunset was famous for dusk till dawn movie marathons.