Marina Twins
1765 Ala Moana Blvd.,
Honolulu,
HI
96815
1765 Ala Moana Blvd.,
Honolulu,
HI
96815
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1765 Ala Moana Blvd.
Honolulu, HI. 96815
The Marina Twins were built in a former gas station, which opened onto the street (Ala Moana Blvd) and, because the building’s lower floors were a parking garage, the concrete floor of the gas station-turned-theatre sloped up off the street. The auditorium seats were placed facing the street and — instant rake! If you pulled back the sidewall curtain in the draped auditorium, the gas station sign was still on the wall which read “Turn off engine before refueling.”
In spite of their strange genesis, the Marina Twins were nice cozy theatres.
Oh yes I can’t forget the Marina Twins while then under ownership of the Royal Chain. As A Kid I always checked to see what was playing there back in the 70’s. The first movie that I saw there was Raiders of The Lost Ark. And other movies seen there, Grease 2, Terms of Endearment & Falcon & The Snowman, Four Weddings & A Funeral and few others I may have forgotten. The theater itself seems quite small, the lobby area, snack bar facility seems teeny tiny & the theaters on both side were designed differently. Theater 1 is the typical theater shaped auditorium vs. #2 was slightly a rectangle shaped-ish that was different from the other one. And yes when Royal Theater Chain went poof, Consolidated took over which eventually became Outback as I recall while living on the islands.
Even the entrance to the theatre was completely redone when Outback gutted the theatre. Nothing left to decern that it was ever a movie theatre. Consoliudated either dumped or closed a lot of their Hi. theatres.