Rowland Heights Theatre
18365 Colima Road,
Rowland Heights,
CA
91748
18365 Colima Road,
Rowland Heights,
CA
91748
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The 5th Avenue Theatre was advertised in the Los Angeles Times in July 1971. It later went over to screening adult movies and was renamed Rowland Heights Theatre. There is a sushi bar in the building now.
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Here is a partial view of the restaurant. Please change the status to closed, based on the preceding comment.
http://tinyurl.com/5jd6f3
Obviously it isn’t demolished. Function should be restaurant.
The 5th Ave Theater was in existence in 1968. I saw “2001: A Space Odessey” there in 1969 six times in a row on one admission; such is the vitality of youth!
Here is an August 1974 ad from the LA Times:
http://tinyurl.com/pmjwsz
Six times? That is one long day!
I guess Rowland Heights Theater is an aka, according to the ad.
Here is an April 1974 item from the LA Times:
WEST COVINA-Theater operator George Voss faces a new trial May 21 at Citrus Municipal Court after his first trial on obscenity charges for showing “Deep Throat” at his Rowland Heights Theater ended in a hung jury. The jury of nine men and three women was dismissed Tuesday after the foreman reported that the jury was hopelessly deadlocked at 7-5 for acquittal. After a 16-week run, the film is no longer being shown and the theater is closed.
I love crime stories.
justiceputnam posted he saw “2001” at this theatre in 1969. Well “2001” was still in it’s Roadshow engagement at the Warner Cinerama Hollywood Theatre, which ran with the move-over to the Warner Beverly Hills for a total of 103 weeks. “2001” opened on April 5 1968, that would have taken it to spring of 1970.
The Theater was originally called Flack’s 5th Avenue theater, because that section of Colima Road was once called 5th Avenue once you left Hacienda Heights (or City of Industry) and entered into Rowland Heights. It is now Colima Road all the way through Rowland Heights and beyond. Flack’s 5th Avenue theater had a real cool marquee and I believe it was still Flack’s at the time they began showing Deep Throat, eventually the marquee was removed and the theater was later titled “Rowland Heights Theater” and it looked real seedy, and the name looked like it was hand painted on the outside, and it was all-adult films by this time..