Picwood Theatre
10872 W. Pico Boulevard,
Los Angeles,
CA
90064
10872 W. Pico Boulevard,
Los Angeles,
CA
90064
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Grandison, I don’t recognize your cuteness from the picture on here, FB me: “Mark Takoda”. William,such a zen answer, but YOU’RE RIGHT! Thank you! PS-I still have the videotapes you made for me :–) Also, don’t know if it’s been mentioned on here, but you can see the Picwood in the Get Smart episode with the bald bowling league :–)
MarcS, I thought I was the cutest Asst. Manager on the planet! Oh well, my heart is broken. ;) Lisa was quite amazing, though, and I learned a lot from her. I remember tripping over the stacks of cash when we had “E.T.”, but not the gospel movie.
The only one that comes to mind is the movie “Gospel”.
LisaN was the best and cutest Asst. Manager on the planet. Okay, so maybe I still have a crush on her ;–) There were three Gospel movies that came out in 1982, anyone remember which one played at the Picwood after E.T. ???
Here’s the Picwood as cover girl, Boxoffice, May 7, 1949.
This is from the LA Times on November 7, 1948:
Opening soon of the new Picwood theater at Pico and Westwood Blvd. has been announced. The new structure has 1500 seating capacity, 1000 on the first floor. The theater is owned by Earl Collins and will be managed by Phil Isley, of Dallas.
Here is a 1959 ad from the LA Times:
http://tinyurl.com/c7nwaj
In that picture of the marquee with “Thief”, it was a move-over from the Plaza Theatre in Westwood. I was working at the theatre at that time and put up those letters for that engagement.
Oops. Sorry Ken. You are a little tricky with your “tinyurl”.
The Picwood, 1981:
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You can see the Chess & Games store, the theater and the bowling alley in this 1981 photo:
http://tinyurl.com/csuh2w
Those green stamps were S & H Green Stamps (Sperry & Hutchinson).
I remember one night after the theatre closed for the night and the last show let out. I was waiting for the last Big Bus Bus #7 at Pico and Westwood Blvd.. I was looking down Pico towards the May Company and I saw this car driving really fast towards Pico and Westwood and it lost control and smashed into the theatre’s box office. Boy after they fixed all those doors they were never the same. It took out the box office and drinking fountain area of the lobby. You could still feel the wall where the car hit.
I remeber licking Thousands, at least it seem to my 9 year old mind, of stamps to fill in those damn books. I asked my mom and dad about the GREEN stamp store, they said most of the stuff offered was pretty good. You could get small pieces of furniture (they still have a glass table from that store) and various electronics, including TV’s.
The Bridge!? Thats the “BRUTHU” theatre, uh-hm, all the bruthu’s be hanging out there with their baggy pants and over-sized shirts, jaded apathetic employees selling tickets to forgettable time-killer movies to jaded apathetic teens strolling and with suckers in their mouth (ok so i wear baggy pants and oversized shirts too)
The design of that place is like some kind of bad futuristic space station or something
If you like the Arclight, then I imagine you would like the Bridge, Mike. They have an IMAX there, and the auditoriums I’ve been in have all had stadium seating, etc. Personally, I prefer to see movies at the Chinese, Fox Village, places like that. These new places have good presentation, but no history or splendor.
LisaN, or anyone else who may be able to answer this. How’re the Bridge Theatres over in LA(Westchester area)? I still haven’t seen a movie there. I go to the Landmark all the time, and this weekend, I’m going to check out a movie at the ArcLight in Sherman Oaks, and see how that compares to the Landmark, but I’ve heard the Bridge is nice too. I think some of the theatres there are more expensive than the Landmark($12 every night, including weekends), and the ArcLight($14 on Friday nad Saturday nights), but I’m not sure. What do people here think of the Bridge?
When I was growing up my father worked at that Vons (Late 60’s early 70’s). Sebastian Cabot (from Mr. French) used to frequent that store, and I saw him one day when my mom and I were shopping. Late 70’s I was allowed to take the bus to the Picwood and the Westland Twins to see a movie because it was a easy bus trip from my house; I lived on 10th and Pico. It was a great shopping center and I loved going to the Picwood.
Yes, I remember that Blue Chip Stamp redemption store. I actually mentioned it in my first post on here. My parents used to get those, and I remember my mom redeeming her stamps over there. I think the Blue Chip Stamp store, as well as the stamps themselves, went out by the mid 70’s. Was Chess and Games over on that side of the street? For some reason, I was thinking it was over at the old Westland Shopping Center(before the Westside Pavilion opened up), between Overland and Westwood, by the Little Folk Shop, See’s Candies, JJ Newberry’s, Vons Market. I forgot that it was by the Picwood Theatre, Captain Video Arcade, and the Picwood Bowling Alley.
One of the businesses next to the Picwood Theatre during the 70’s, before Chess and Games was a Blue Chip Stamp redemption store. Now get into the Way Back machine, those were little Blue stamps you got when you spent money at supermarkets and other stores. And you traded them in for items.
Hey LisaN, yes, I’ve heard about the Lone Ranger Restaurant that used to be there. I don’t remember it, as I think I was only about 2-3 years old, when it went out of business, and my sister didn’t start taking me over there until I was 5-6 years old from 1972-74. There were about 5, or 6 Lone Ranger restaurants in LA, and from what I’ve heard and read from other sites on the internet, the real Lone Ranger himself(Clayton Moore) used to appear at them, including the one on Pico and Westwood, pose for pictures, sign autographs, and once in a while, give out a silver bullet to someone. I’m wondering though, if once the bank went up there, did it remain a bank until the Westside Pavilion expansion went up in the mid to late 80’s, or was there ever another fast food place, or burger joint in that spot, in the 70’s and 80’s?
You are right. The site changed my original description over the last few years.
There’s a mistake in the description above. The bridge that connects the two parts of Westside Pavilion doesn’t stretch over Pico Blvd, but over Westwood Blvd.
Hey JoelB, yes, thankfully those places that you mentioned are still around. I actually had a late night burger at Apple Pan a couple of weeks ago, when I drove over from Simi Valley to the Westside, and I went over to the Landmark Theatres this past Saturday night, and had dinner at Juniors Deli. I’m glad they’re still around too. Tito’s is still as good as ever too. I ate there a few months ago. I’m glad some of those classic places are still here in LA.
Hey neeb, yes, I’ve been on Mark Evanier’s website a few times(he’s actually added a few places on there, since I went on it the first time). It’s a great site, and I’d actually forgotten about some of those places on his site for many years, before his site reminded me of those places. It was that site that really started making me nostalgic again for the places that are no longer here in LA, and eventually led me here to this Cinema Treasures page, and the great theatres that are no longer around here in the LA area.
What about restaurants that are still around like the Aple Pan, Tito’s Tacos, Johnies Pastrami, and Billingsly’s? Plus all the Mexican joints on Pico west of Sepulveda that have been there forever?