Cinema West

This opened on February 10th, 1971. Grand opening ad in the photo section.

Nice to see this house remembered with a listing in Cinema Treasures. Not a movie palace even by neighborhood theatre standards, but a well-run operation. I went there maybe half a dozen times in the mid-to late-1970s, and felt that the presentation (projection and sound, service, etc.) were on a par with many of the first-run venues that charged more per ticket. My last visit there was to see “Jaws” on its 1979 re-release; I had also seen it there around Christmastime in 1975, six months after the movie’s opening, and recalled that the theatre did the movie justice then. (The ‘79 “Jaws” showing also offered a rare opportunity to see a vintage Bugs Bunny cartoon on the big screen!) The theatre had closed by the time I began working in the area in 1983, and if I’m not mistaken the space that it had occupied went through several different tenants over the years.