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Zimmer commented about Santa Maria Theatre on Jul 4, 2015 at 8:50 pm

Experienced my first walk-in big screen movie in this theatre back in the late 1970’s starring Chevy Chase. It was 1 big screen at that time and the hot real buttered popcorn was amazing.

Later, I worked at the Park Aire Drive-In & filled in at the Santa Maria Theatre during the Summer matinee times in the early-mid 1980’s.

Before the Santa Maria Theatre was closed it went through an additional remodeling in which 2 small theatres were added upstairs for a total of 4 screens. Both upstairs screens had separate projection booths which made running matinee showings a work-out in itself. I believe the initial remodel (initial “twining”) occurred in early 1980’s.

I have an old Santa Maria Times front page article discussing the close with Gary Galt (sp?) pictured that has more details and will attempt to add a scan of that information later as time permits.

Good times & good people.