I May have been the last to see the Larwin Theater, as I was also probably the first person to use it in ‘65.
My dad and I visited our great old house at 2548 Heywood, and swung by the Larwin. It was a single screen then (in 1992) although they also had another screen that I didn’t see from the front window, which was closed/gated.
I took some woeful looking pictures of it, and called it a day. Simi is still fairy-tale like pretty.
I saw so many great films there when it opened. They had a Saturday matinee for kids with a DJ/host fellow who gave away free stuff for our lucky ticket stub.
The matinee would show about four hours of ancient, b/w films like “The Bowery Boys in Africa” and often I’d remember that the film would tear and or catch fire.
Of course, the A films were shown on Thursday-Saturdays for…what, .35 cents or something?
I remember seeing the Beatles “A Hard Days Night” there about a year after it was officially released. And they also showed a now extremely rare Stones documentary called “Charlie is my Darling”.
I have quite a long list of films I saw there like
The Long Ships
Crack in the World
Dr. Strangelove
Atlantis, the Lost Continent
I May have been the last to see the Larwin Theater, as I was also probably the first person to use it in ‘65.
My dad and I visited our great old house at 2548 Heywood, and swung by the Larwin. It was a single screen then (in 1992) although they also had another screen that I didn’t see from the front window, which was closed/gated.
I took some woeful looking pictures of it, and called it a day. Simi is still fairy-tale like pretty.
I saw so many great films there when it opened. They had a Saturday matinee for kids with a DJ/host fellow who gave away free stuff for our lucky ticket stub.
The matinee would show about four hours of ancient, b/w films like “The Bowery Boys in Africa” and often I’d remember that the film would tear and or catch fire.
Of course, the A films were shown on Thursday-Saturdays for…what, .35 cents or something?
I remember seeing the Beatles “A Hard Days Night” there about a year after it was officially released. And they also showed a now extremely rare Stones documentary called “Charlie is my Darling”.
I have quite a long list of films I saw there like The Long Ships Crack in the World Dr. Strangelove Atlantis, the Lost Continent
… and many more.