Hacienda 3

738 El Camino Real,
Sunnyvale, CA 94087

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rivest266
rivest266 on July 2, 2022 at 2:54 am

Taken over by West Side Valley theatres and renamed Cinema Hacienda on June 16th, 1967. Another ad posted.

rivest266
rivest266 on July 2, 2022 at 2:37 am

Reopened on September 30th, 1966 after a new screen was installed. the “le Duet optical system” flopped.

rivest266
rivest266 on July 2, 2022 at 1:42 am

The Le Duet opened with one screen on December 1st, 1965 and Officially on December 22nd, 1965. Theatre claimed to be the first in the world where every seat is the “best seat in the house”

Grand opening ads posted.

Le Duet preopeningLe Duet preopening 27 Nov 1965, Sat The Peninsula Times Tribune (Palo Alto, California) Newspapers.com

spek10
spek10 on June 20, 2019 at 3:40 pm

The Hacienda Cinemas was my first job. I worked there in 1985. It was a second-run discount theater that showed movies about 6 months after they came out. I must have sat through Terminator and Runaway with Tom Selleck about 20 times. It was a good job – the pizza place next door would trade free pizza for free movie tickets. One thing I remember was that we didn’t pop our own popcorn – we bought it in huge plastic bags already popped and just poured into the heater bins. Yuck. I still don’t eat much popcorn to this day.

bobster1985
bobster1985 on June 11, 2013 at 5:10 pm

I have many fond memories of the Hacienda in the late ‘80s and early '90s. Saw tons of movies there on the cheap. Towards the end it was a $1 movie house. I think The Addams Family was playing at the time it closed. It certainly wasn’t elegant, but it was great entertainment value.