AMC Broadway 4
1441 3rd Street Promenade,
Santa Monica,
CA
90401
1441 3rd Street Promenade,
Santa Monica,
CA
90401
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Here is a November 2009 photo:
http://tinyurl.com/yjpjuvv
But someday this place will be turned into a Sephora or something even less glamorous than a 90’s era Cineplex Odeon. Snap a few shots for posterity.
Scott, to answer your question (nearly two years later!) as someone who has gone to all of these theaters many times — the insides of all of the 3rd St Promenade theaters are fairly recent (90s era) and so are pretty plain. That’s why I’ve never bothered to take any photos inside them. I can’t speak for others.
Ken, yes, the El Miro was mostly demolished. As that poster stated, the facade was preserved. It’s one of those odd situations…
The Santa Monica Daily Press today stated that the city is demanding that if AMC replaces their 7 screener with a 12 screen facility, that they must promise to shut the Broadway 4 (which they also operate) to prevent “oversaturation of movie theaters.” The problem is, they only lease that facility, and once they give up the lease have no control over it.
Regarding the opening comments, I believe the El Miro was demolished before the Broadway was built. The El Miro has its own page on CT. Here is a photo of the Broadway from a few years ago:
http://tinyurl.com/6g6o5n
I have seen a couple films here but try to avoid. Very late 80’s/early 90’s Cineplex Oden interior. Gray walls, lots of purple/turquoise carpet, smallish theatres etc.
Does anybody see movies at this place? (or any on 3rd St?) I never see any photos from the interior or any of the theatres.
Anyone know how many seats in each audtitorium?
This house seats 1,200.
I remember when this theatre was called the Cinema on the Mall in the mid-70’s, saw a double feature of Airport 1975 and The Black Windmill. Century Cinema Circuit ran it. It was a cool theatre with a walk up balcony.
In the early ‘80s, prior to the construction of the new four-plex on the site—and indeed, prior to the renovation of the entire outdoor mall—this was a humble single-screen Spanish-language house called the Cine. On Sunday mornings, a church called the Santa Monica Vineyard met there. I attended for a few years, and it was always amusing walking into “church” past some very salacious looking one-sheets en espanol. Incidentally, after the Cine closed, the Vineyard briefly moved its services down the mall to the Criterion, which was then a single-screen second-run prior house; it, too, was completely rebuilt, as a Mann six-plex.
This theatre opened as the El Miro theatre. Over the years this theatre has been operated by Century theatres, Statewide theatres, Loew’s then GCC, Metropolitan, it ran as a independent for a few years. Only the facade remains on the building.