Another friend of mine who grew up in Torrance wrote me tonight…
“It was the very first theater I ever went to.
Grandma took Ron and I to see "Mary Poppins” at a matinee.
I remember going there later. They had rock n roll bands play before the feature, and we threw pennies at em. I remember a band playing the Stones “Paint It Black” and CCR’s “Who Can Stop The Rain”.
(Hey Nina!) I used to frequent R.H. Theater w/ Nina’s sister in the early 80’s…it seemed always empty though by then in the evenings, even a Saturday night. We saw movies like A Christmas Story, Something Wicked This Way Comes, that creepy muppett-people made movie w/ the dinasour like guys humming “ohmmmmm” what was the name errgh! My dad’s last movie in Calif before he moved in 1988 was Top Gun there, Lots of memories. Never felt creepy in there about the ghosts of the past, maybe I’m not “sensitive” enough to that ha! Carolyn
I’m right there with you, I grew up on Calle Mayor 1966-1987 :)
BaHa I just remembered, I got hailed to the projectionist room in early 1984 and was asked to South High Prom by my date in there!!!
Newberry’s, my friend (Nina’s sister) worked there and was held up in a robbery in the early 80’s, I remember her calling me freaking out…
The murders were in the office I believe? Not the projection room? :)
Another friend of mine who grew up in Torrance wrote me tonight…
“It was the very first theater I ever went to.
Grandma took Ron and I to see "Mary Poppins” at a matinee.
I remember going there later. They had rock n roll bands play before the feature, and we threw pennies at em. I remember a band playing the Stones “Paint It Black” and CCR’s “Who Can Stop The Rain”.
(Hey Nina!) I used to frequent R.H. Theater w/ Nina’s sister in the early 80’s…it seemed always empty though by then in the evenings, even a Saturday night. We saw movies like A Christmas Story, Something Wicked This Way Comes, that creepy muppett-people made movie w/ the dinasour like guys humming “ohmmmmm” what was the name errgh! My dad’s last movie in Calif before he moved in 1988 was Top Gun there, Lots of memories. Never felt creepy in there about the ghosts of the past, maybe I’m not “sensitive” enough to that ha! Carolyn