Eagle Rock Plaza Theatre
2700 W. Colorado Boulevard,
Los Angeles,
CA
90041
2700 W. Colorado Boulevard,
Los Angeles,
CA
90041
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Opened in summer 1973, this plaza theatre ran second-run movies in the 1990’s and early 2000’s. It is unknown what happened in the 1980’s and when and why Pacific Theatres abandoned it. But a little while after this suite was closed, it become a store.
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Looking at the website for the mall, the area where the theatres were are now used as storage for Target. Check out the above link and you can see the four theatres and emergency exits. The lobby was turned into a shop and hallway for access to this area.
When Pacific Theatres operated this theatre the seating capacities were 244, 244, 244, 227.
Worked There…
i still live around the corner from the Eagle Rock Plaza, all i remember (during it’s final years) was one of the screens looked like it had a heavy diffusion lense on the projector. The first patented “Murko-vision”.
I’d be interested in hearing more about this place in the 70’s. Too bad there are no cinema’s left in the eagle rock area. The theatre scene is dead. These are the final years before D-Day
The “W” has to be removed from the address given for this theater. There is no West Colorado Boulevard in Los Angeles. The street is entirely on the east side of town. That’s probably why Google Maps has put its pin on West Colorado Boulevard in Pasadena. Eagle Rock Plaza is about two and a half miles west of the pin’s location.
The Eagle Rock Plaza Theatre, that was located on the second floor next to Wards (Now Target), was owned and operated by Pacific Theatres since 1973. It became second-run in the fall of 1996, and was closed in September, 1998. An Independent theatre operator took over the theatre around January, 1999 after the theatre was newly remodeled and closed down for about a few months and lasted until November, 2001. I remember seeing a lot of movies there such as “Short Circuit 1 & 2”, “The War of the Roses”, “Good Burger” and many others. They basically played movies on 4 screens whenever the Glendale area isn’t playing there. It was a good theatre that lasted for 28 years. I still missed it from this day.
I worked there a couple of times under Pacific Theatres During the mid-80’s
Boy, how I remember those shoebox shaped theatres there. I remember how big of a thing it was when the Eagle Rock Plaza, and its theatres, opened since it was the first mall and multiplex in the Glendale area. I remember seeing Rocky and Jaws 2 there (among other films) and how easy it was to just from one theatre to another to see movies, and not get caught.
I saw Phantasm as a kid 1978 there!!!
Joseph, The theater was not on the second floor, it was on the first floor. I worked there when Phantasm showed in 1979! In early 1979, someone walked off with about $10,000 in cash from the managers office. They were sure it was an inside job but they could never prove who did it. They polygraphed everyone but never solved it.