Cinema 70
280 Del Monte Center,
Monterey,
CA
93940
280 Del Monte Center,
Monterey,
CA
93940
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Cinema 70 was designed for showing 70mm films.
It was a large 1,100 auditorium with all seating on one level. The auditorium and entrance was on the lower level of the Monterey Del Monte Shopping Center.
The theatre eventually was closed by UA and the auditorium space was remodeled by Century Theatres into a 6-plex named Galaxy Cinemas.
In November 2004, Century Theatres closed the Galaxy when they opened the new Del Monte 13 cinemas. The space once occupied by Cinema 70 and Galaxy is supposedly going to be converted into retail space for the nearby Macy’s store.
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Tom DeLay
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Totally sickening, the beauty of the big screen experiance being shreeded apart by UA for the value of a dollar. I remember seeing Doctor Dolittle here. These big beautiful screens are now just memories of a bygone era, only recreated for the rich in afflueent areas that charge $25/seat for the recreation of those memories. Monster pack'em in, double arch cheeseburger megaplexes, are just glorified commercial venues that screen advertisements for DVD’s of some remake of the or 50’s or 60’s (alas Dr. Dolittle, Cheaper by the Dozen). Yes, the glorious Cinema 70 (and 70mm production) has fallen victim to the age of pixelated packaging in the land remakes.
-Aaron K. Canales (Film Projectionist)
The Galaxy 6 was actually remodelled by CinemaCal Enterprises and later operated by Century Theatres while the Del Monte 13 was being developed. The Galaxy was similar in design to a number of CinemaCal’s other locations, featuring the Brejfus sound panels of movie stars and film characters.
Does anyone have pictures of this theatre?
Could this possibly be the theatre that opened in 1967 with “Hawaii”?
So if the Cinema 70 and the Galazy 6 were in the same building, the address would be the same. The address for the Galaxy 6 was 280 Del Monte Shopping Ctr.