Corbin Theatre
19620 Ventura Boulevard,
Tarzana,
CA
91356
19620 Ventura Boulevard,
Tarzana,
CA
91356
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Like the Holiday Theatre in Chatsworth, this theater was one of those single screen versions of the 1970’s style multiplex. The Corbin Theatre finished its last years as a adult theatre.
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William Gabel
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There is a February 1968 ad in the Van Nuys News for a double feature – “Jungle Book” and “Charlie the Lonesome Cougar”. If you’re talking about nostalgia, it doesn’t get any better than that for me. Apart from a few films at the drive-in where I was stuffed in the back of the Rambler, these were the first two films I saw in a theater. My mother took to me to the same double feature in Atlantic City, possibly in late 1967. I’d better log off before I start weeping on my keyboard.
Here is the ad:
http://tinyurl.com/3bv99v
Now a Mosonic Temple
Now a Karate Studio
Corbin Theatre today…..
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The Corbin was advertised as an EVC Electrovision Theater in the LA Times back in January 1960. The karate studio has some interior photos on its website:
http://www.tarzanakarate.com/
Been There – Done That
Here is a 1984 photo:
http://tinyurl.com/cgpqo2
Here is an August 1975 ad from the LA Times:
http://tinyurl.com/qrkcqy
The Corbin was built for Robert Lippert Theatres and was opened in 1959. It was a near twin to the Buena Park Theatre opened the same year and which was the subject of this Boxoffice feature of October 19 that year. You can see the resemblance to the 1984 photo, though it looks like the Corbin had a traditional marquee added later, judging from the way it’s mounted on columns rather than attached to the building itself. The Corbin was probably designed by the architect of the Buena Park, Warren F. Overpeck.