Fox Cinemaland Theatre
1414 Harbor Boulevard,
Anaheim,
CA
92802
1414 Harbor Boulevard,
Anaheim,
CA
92802
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The Fox Cinemaland opened in April 1968 as a single screen theater. It was triplexed fall of 1974. This theater was located about a block from the main entrance to Disneyland.
After closing, it sat vacant for some time, and was demolished in 1998 to make way for a bus terminal.
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William Gabel
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The Fox Cinemaland opened during a minor new theatre building spree during the late 1960s in Orange County.
Edwards opened their Newport Cinema (aka Big Newport) theatre in 1969. Syufy (Century) opened their twin Cinedome down the I-5 Freeway from Cinemaland, also in 1969. In Costa Mesa, the South Coast Plaza Theatre opened in 1968 or 1969. In or around 1972, ABC opened the City Center in Orange. All were luxury theatres of their day and had 70mm capability.
Newport is still open. The Cinedome and City Center have been demolished, and South Coast Plaza still remains vacant.
The grand opening of the Fox Cinemaland was scheduled for April 10th, 1968, according to an article The Los Angeles Times of April 7th that year.
The last chain to run the theater was Mann.
According to the 4/15/68 Boxoffice Magazine, Cinemaland’s first manager was Harold Brislin, an individual who had formerly managed the Fox West Coast, in Santa Ana, and had been with the company for 33 years (at the time of Cinemaland’s opening).
The Fox Cinemaland was designed by L. Perry Pearson and Paul Wuesthoff of Pearson & Wuesthoff, a Los Angeles firm soon to become Pearson, Wuesthoff, & Skinner. The April 15, 1968, issue of Boxoffice confirmed that the house had formally opened on April 10.
The architectural firm that designed the Cinemaland apparently designed most of NGC’s projects in the west and southwest from the mid-1960s into the 1970s. I’ve tracked down the names of almost ten of these projects so far, and expect to find more.
I think this theater is in this photograph – View link
I visited this theater once a long time ago, and the location in the photo seems right.
Spud Girl, the theatre is on the other side of the park. The Disneyland Hotel is in the forground of the picture.
Some photos (vintage and contemporary) and newspaper ads of this theater can be found here.
Thanks for the link Micheal,love the ad for Cashiers,Candy Girls and Doorman.
nothing like the 70’s theatre Business!Great stuff.