Redondo Beach Cinema 3
1509 Hawthorne Boulevard,
Redondo Beach,
CA
90278
1509 Hawthorne Boulevard,
Redondo Beach,
CA
90278
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I hope I’ve positioned the street view accurately. Don’t have any photos yet. The theaters were just to the south of the (then) South Bay Galleria Mall, which is what I remember it being called in the 1980s.
Looks like they are building something on the site.
I can also confirm this theater has been demolished. First the building and the street marquee within the past couple of months. Status should be changed.
Ray Milland story was good long with others.
Where do we go now to watch movies for three bucks?
R.I.P. Redondo Beach Cinema 3.
Say goodbye to this one. I drove past today and the theater has been razed. Status should be changed to closed/demolished.
I did that once in Philly-a rainy Tuesday afternoon. I was the only one in the theater for the show.
I’ve visited this place around 15 or 20 times in the last 10 years or so and on only 2 occasions was there someone else in the theatre with me.
The best way to get a status changed is to fill out this form. Specify ‘Correction’ in the ‘Regarding’ menu.
Any photos?
It will be updated evantually. Ken Roe is out of the country still, I think.
Scott Neff just posts comments on here, he not part of this site’s staff. He’s part of CinemaTours site.
Do you know how to contact Scott Neff? I have to tell him something; edit the theater’s status to CLOSED because the theater’s marquee said “CLOSED”, and the movie listing is taken down as well.
I drove by there today. Definitely closed. Rest in peace.
Somebody should let Scott Neff know another old GCC has bit the dust.
It wasn’t exactly breaking attendance records.
Well that’s the second complex the chain has closed in the last month or so. They closed the Fairfax Theatre (triplex).
Another one bites the dust. The theatre has been removed from Regency’s web site, and the theatre’s recording confirms the closing.
I remember going here a number of times when my mom lived in Redondo Beach. I know for certain I saw Pete’s Dragon and The Empire Strikes Back here.
Cinema 3 (the big house next to Levitz) is where I had one of my first THX experiences (with “Pretty Woman” – the exact wrong movie for THX!) as well as my first DTS Digital experience with “Jurassic Park” in 93. At the time, that was the LOUDEST movie I’d ever heard. The memorable sequence with the puddle vibrating to the sound of the oncoming T-Rex literally shook the theatre!
That information is available on this theaters website.
Showing today-Hannah Montana, Knowing and I Love You, Man.Wasn’t the last one first-run like two weeks ago? Admission is $3.25.
According to several websites, Theater 1 is supposed to be haunted. Anyone know if this is true?
Here’s what the website, “The Shadowlands” reported:
Hawthorne Blvd – Redondo Beach – General Cinema Theater I – It is no longer used. The stock room could not be kept clean; boxes would always be opened, overturned, and/or dumped on the floor. The faucet would turn on and off by itself. Behind the concession stand, you could feel someone brush past you and bump into you as you were working and the cabinets would be padlocked at night and would be open in the morning, with the contents disheveled and strewn about.
http://theshadowlands.net/places/california1.htm
I’ve driven by this theater for years but have never bought a ticket. The large white marquee with all the second-run films is highly visible as you drive past the South Bay Galleria going south on Hawthorne. I recall that it was two dollars a few years ago, but I guess inflation has taken its toll. I didn’t know the bowling alley was gone, though.
The Redondo Beach Cinema 3 is one of fifteen houses currently operated by Regency Theatres.