Picwood Theatre
10872 W. Pico Boulevard,
Los Angeles,
CA
90064
10872 W. Pico Boulevard,
Los Angeles,
CA
90064
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MEMBERS: MY NEW MODIFIED THEATRE ALBUM IS AT:
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HOPE YOU LIKE THE CHOICES……….
Hi Everyone: First message is for DWODEYLA. I am changing the order and adding some new pics to the old. They should ALL be up by tomorrow. NOW, FOR ALL PICWOOD FANS…William, Lisa, Meryl and Meridith!!!! I told you I was having trouble finding the picture of the PICWOOD when it closed with VOLUNTEERS. I know why! Up until 1991 when I retired from Local 150 I did not use a 35mm camera. All 12 books I kept looking thru were 35mm albums. I have 4 other albums starting with shots I took as a kid with with my Kodak Brownie and 3 other cameras but none were 35mm. So, I went to look in the 4 albums with non-35 mm and YES!!! I FOUND THE PICWOOD THEATRE WITH VOLUNTEERS ON THE MARQUEE!! Also, the picture clearly shows the old Picwood Bowl. I am posting it ASAP on my Webshots site. I did not let anyone down with my PICWOOD PROMISE. How could Hopalong Cassidy(hoppy) ever make a mistake???
Hi Everyone: First message is for DWODEYLA. I am changing the order and adding some new pics to the old. They should ALL be up by tomorrow. NOW, FOR ALL PICWOOD FANS…William, Lisa, Meryl and Meridith!!!! I told you I was having trouble finding the picture of the PICWOOD when it closed with VOLUNTEERS. I know why! Up until 1991 when I retired from Local 150 I did not use a 35mm camera. All 12 books I kept looking thru were 35mm albums. I have 4 other albums starting with shots I took as a kid with with my Kodak Brownie and 3 other cameras but none were 35mm. So, I went to look in the 4 albums with non-35 mm and YES!!! I FOUND THE PICWOOD THEATRE WITH VOLUNTEERS ON THE MARQUEE!! Also, the picture clearly shows the old Picwood Bowl. I am posting it ASAP on my Webshots site. I did not let anyone down with my PICWOOD PROMISE. How could Hopalong Cassidy(hoppy) ever make a mistake???
hoppy, when I click on your Webshots link to see a picture, it says there’s no pictures in the album.
You can’t…you can only preview and submit. Perhaps you can petition the webmaster to delete your comment.
HOW DO I ERASE A MESSAGE I HAVE WRITTEN OR RECEIVED????
The Berry Gordy film in question is “The Last Dragon”.
Lisa: I will share a story. When I moved to the valley in 1968 the HIPPY movement was in full swing. There was a famous Catholic Girls School on Laurel Cyn. south ogf Ventura Bl. 1 or 2 blocks. It was Corvallis. The morality of the times was not conducive or inducive to making a girl feel she wanted to go on and become a Sister. The school had enrollment and other problems. However, the head of Notre Dame in Sherman Oaks contacted the head mistress at Corvallis and offered to create a co-ed situation between the 2 schools. This way Corvallis could have survived and both schools would have benefitted from both sexes going to school together. However, the Head Mistress flatly refused and Corvallis after many successful years was closed.
I saw a film at the Picwood shortly before it closed. It was some kind of a breakdancing/martial arts film as far as I can remember, and it was produced by Motown’s Berry Gordy. That would have been in 1985. Not long after that, the theater was gone and the unwanted and unnecessary extension to the Westside Pavilion was built.
Hoppy: I graduated from Notre Dame in ‘79. They are still all-girl college prep.
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MEREDITH: Carl Peterson replaced Dean Griffin as chief of Pacific. When I used to go to the Picwood 2 men were operators there. Frank Mc Bryde,deceased,and Dean Griffin. Dean retired in the 1980’s and I have no idea where Peterson came from. Then along came his son who I did not know. When I left Local 150 in 1991 I was at the Galleria. I relieved the 2 operators. Al Whitney just turned 100 this year and retired from there at 78. The other operator was a woman named Lucinda Beery. Her brother Dennis was also a 150 man. Lucinda lived with Carl Peterson according to several local officers. She eventually married someone else. She was about 40, divorced, and had a serious disease pertainingg to tumors. Her brother died some years later. I do not know how. Lucinda was one of the first women operators in the local. She was very likeable.
Meredith: Carl Peterson and his son Kent Peterson.
Did the Bel-Air circuit myself, as William knows.
Since we are mentioning people like Rick Pollard, Mike Schleiger and Lou Honeycutt, does anyone remember Peterson at Pacific or his son at Disney?
Was a dj at the first FM rock station in 1967. It was KTBT. Graduated from I.B.A. (Institute of Broadcast Arts) in Garden Grove, a joint venture between Gary Owens and Hugh Downs.
Meryl: I worked the Bel-Air circuit for 11 years. Yes, I’m still in the film industry, handling Post-Production, studio & guild screenings. My office is in the Brill Building in Times Square.
MERYL: Thank you! I will just share some things with you. My dad and I lost my mom mentally in the 1940’s due to something in her brain. She could not function normally. My Dad was Horace Heidt’s PR man back then and traveled with the band on roadshows. This is why I was raised by grandparents in Cheviot Hills. My Dad died on his birthday July 15 which bothered me even more! I felt like first Mom, now Dad. Now you can see why I went into sociology and psychology. I am a Scorpio born on Halloween and my Grandad was a Pisces and Dad was a Cancer…all water signs and highly emotional. It’s not good to lose the physical prescence of your Mom. Period!!
Hi Hoppy, I’m sorry about your dad.
-Meryl
Hi William: These are the people that I worked with in Post-production/
Bel-Air circuit/ studio screenings:
WB: Lillian, Heidi, Theresa
Paramount: Miriam Seipman, Gina Francis
Did you work with any of them?
I’m from New York, do you work in the film industry there?
Lisa: I lived at the southern end of the golf course and you drove down/up Patricia to get there. I went to private school in the valley prior to Hamilton. The kids I met at Hami went to Overland Ave, Palms Jr. High and Hami. Hami was the worst experience I had however many adults now tell me they hated their high school too. I presume you graduated Notre Dame about 1980. Many of us in Cheviot Hills dated N.D. girls. Did N.D. ever change their policy to co-ed for high school. I know 1-8 was co-ed but high school was girls only. N.D. here in Sherman Oaks is co-ed. Westlake which was girls only joined all-male Harvard and became co-ed. The true era of private schools is considered 1940-1965. Vietnam completely caused the closing of every military school there was. Harvard became non-military up until uniting with Westlake.
I worked for a short time at the Picwood, thanks to a friend of the family that lived just up the street from me. I can’t believe they demolished the theatre and bowl to break ground for the lame structure that now inhabits that parcel.
;–)
Hoppy: I went to St. Tim’s on Pico, attended Overland Ave school, Notre Dame High School, some UCLA. I used to live at the corner house behind the Picwood, which was why the Picwood became my first real job – I walked out the back door, and was home!
LISA: Like all members I read all messages for the old Picwood. Did you by chance go to HAMI or UNI high? I guess you are a local. Smith’s Sporting Goods across the street and Rancho Records and Biff’s restaurant were all places I frequented.
FOX VENICE SWAP – SUMMER 2005
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William and Meryl: After leaving the FOX VENICE I met a girl thru I believe what was called the ROLLER DROME where you skated. It was in Mar Vista. That woman has remained friends with me for 40 years and now resides in Las Vegas. 3 months ago she asked me to shoot the still-existing FOX VENICE and send her a snapshot which I did. I will put it on my WEBSHOTS album.
The ElMiro was called the Cinema on the Mall in the early – mid 70’s. Century Cinema ran it and the GGC for a while. It became a independent theatre for a while afterwards and showed 2nd run sometimes first run films. “Rollercoaster” was booked IN SENSURROUND during the summer of 1977 after it finished it’s Mann Bruin Westwood run while being a Independently run theatre. Later it because a Spanish language theatre before its current state.
The ElMiro Theatre was on the next block, same side of the street going south. It was later part of Century Theatres, Statewide Theatres, Loews, GCC, Metropolitan chains. The only part of the original theatre that’s left is the facade, which was used a the facade of the Cineplex Broadway 4 Theatre.