UA Long Beach Marketplace 6

6601 Pacific Coast Highway,
Long Beach, CA 90803

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Troy Martin
Troy Martin on August 30, 2010 at 8:42 pm

I saw “The Rocky Horror Picture Show” here.

Edward Havens
Edward Havens on February 27, 2010 at 10:15 am

Oh, what fond memories I have of the Marketplace 6. All throughout junior high, my friends and I had a weekly ritual of biking over to the Marketplace, filling our jackets with sodas and candy from the Food and Drug store on the other end of the shopping center, buying a ticket for one movie and then sneaking in to one or two other movies before going home. Being able to see movies in the #1 house was always a treat.

Meredith Rhule
Meredith Rhule on December 20, 2008 at 6:38 pm

I was UA’s last union projection technician working directly for UA. In 84, this theater had the sweetest girl managing it. She was a very beautiful redhaired girl. Well, we were friends. She and her assistant drove to Las Vegas. So sad, they had an accident and the manager passed on. The assistant who was driving lived, thank God. I spent a few days visiting her in the funeral home. Very Sad…

Coate
Coate on August 21, 2008 at 2:36 pm

I worked at this theater during the early 1990s while a student at nearby Cal State Long Beach.

Screen #1 had somewhere in the 500-600 range of seats. Screen #2 was almost as large. Screens 1 and 2 had a large center section of seats and two smaller side sections. The screens widened for proper scope presentation. Screen #1 was equipped with 70mm projection and Dolby Stereo. (“Hoffa” in late 1992-early 1993 was the theater’s last 70mm presentation.)

Screens 3-6 were rather small with a center aisle and two small sections of seats. The screens were common width that were reduced in height for scope presentations (i.e. not the preferred technique). The audio, as I remember it, was mono.

The theater competed for bookings with the AMC Marina Pacifica located a block away.