wow.. i almost went by there yesterday. i’m glad i didn’t, i think it would’ve been too much of a shock while driving. they wasted no time. but then they’ve waited for this day for the last twelve years and were ready. i was nine years old (59) when i first walked up to that ticket booth, paid my quarter and went in. i can’t remember that first movie or the next but there wasn’t a week after that i wasn’t in the Atlantic Theater. the movie that is most memorable to me was the 1960 13 Ghosts. it was the first 3D movie that came out. as you went into the theater they handed you the pair of 3D glasses (with one red cellophane lense & one blue cellophane lense) you’d need to see the ghosts with. and you did! that movie scared the hell out of me for years to come. it’s a memory i can keep, and i have for the last 54 years. in my childhood memory box i still have them 3D glasses that i saw the 13 Ghosts with in 1960 at the Atlantic Theater. thank you for including my memories into the history of the Atlantic Theater. DebraLea
Hi Guys, i’ve gone by the Atlantic theater, nothing yet to suggest that the demolish is still scheduled for the 25th. no signs ect. last time i went by there were Edison trucks with crane all in the back of the building working up on the poles. other than that nothing looks like work happening. i make it a habit to go by that way anymore. i’ll let you know if i see anything. i’ve posted the info and all the pictures on a group site of Facebook ‘you know your from LBC when you remember…’ it has raised so many to remembering our days going to the Atlantic, Crest, Towne & LaShell Theaters, many back to the days they opened. they loved the pictures and i included this site so they can also find info of the many other theaters that once were here in LBC and those that still are. thanks again for being here.
Hi Guys. the date is coming up fast. is anyone suppose to be or going to be on site when they start demo? to point out what is being saved, and instructions of how it’s to be saved? don’t trust the RDA one bit. they write up pretty papers of promises. everything they say their going to do has ten ways of doing it and they choose which way. like the saving of the historical Jergens Trust Building concrete cherubs & moldings. i came across recently in the library’s community data digital archives photo’s of LB a picture of one of the LB salvage yards and there up against the chain link fence was the cherubs and all the moldings stacked up on the ground and the cherub has two foot high weeds growing up out of her bosom and under her chin where they are cracked apart. obviously stacked with a fork lift. nothing has ever gone into the plan of using them again as said they would. once again it’s a case of they promised they would, but never said when.. i’ll mark the date.. the 25th is on a Saturday? i’m betting LB isn’t even doing the razing or the building of the center or library. they hired it out instead of the city doing the job. the city doesn’t work on Saturdays and pay any work of overtime! we’ll see. i’ll go check out the data base LBPL to see if it’s to date. Deb
thanks MJ. we moved to 1074 Market in 59 when i was 9. then ironically to the little house south side of the Library. the one they are now saying is old and i forget the word (RDA word)but is what the excuse or reasons of ‘needing’ a new library built once the theater is razed. LB BS! i’m now at Market on Cerritos. across the street from where i started 54 years ago. ha. the new. and the gone. i remember more that’s gone than what’s new. not impressed.
if wanted we spent every night at the Long Beach Drive-In. my best friend’s mother was the snack bar manager back in 65&66. we’d get to go up on the deck of snack bar roof to watch the movies. we were 15 & 16 them years and i have to say they were some of my happiest days, or evenings. they made my best memories of my teen days.
out of curiosity why isn’t the Oriental Theater still listed beings it did exist before it was torn down and the La Shell was built in it’s place? just wondering.
moving my car after the street cleaner went by today i decided to go directly over to the theater to see what there is to see beings the Google imagery above is of April 2011. besides seeing more property that’s been razed and empty with white fencing around it the theater is still untouched. i don’t understand the purpose of removing all eleven houses on the backside of the block? from South st to 59th st on Lime st. westside of the block all that’s left is eleven brand new driveways? i guess it now just a case of wait and see..
i grew up going to the Atlantic Theater from 1959-1966. i seen many movies there as well as the Towne & Crest. until i seen these pic’s i’d forgotten about the fountain and the beautiful flooring. in the last 54 years i’ve lived within a few blocks of it and now retired i’m only but two blocks away. i drive up and down Atlantic at all times coming and going, but i haven’t gone up & down it seeing anything until i used your street view navigation. what i saw was a property razed street (by the RDA) with what says city now owned white fencing covering all of it. and they say that the property 6.? acres there where the theater stands is needed to build a NLB community center? needed? there’s more property directly across the street running from South st. to 59th st. and twice that two blocks farther down from razing the motel many years back. nothing has been built or used for on any of the land they’ve taken. i know they’ve bullied most out of their properties and yelled blithe, pubic nuisance or anything that enables them to force sale to them. the one person that was in favor of the theater excluded himself from the vote. i don’t know what LBC is up to but i know that all this property condemned and taken has a big retail resale price compared to what they gave the past owners. looking in the LBPL Community info base & history annex their not done yet by a long shot. that’s what my dad said when they razed his favorite bar which was The Back Door behind the Front Door Theater next door. thanks for letting me have my say. i must admit i have’t even gone that way to see if is been taken down yet. i will.
more info can be found in the LB Public Library Digital Archives. in ‘Theaters'for pic’s. and the History Annex, and Community Information 'theaters’ lists 54 theaters in Long Beach.
no not if the RDA wants it down. i don’t know what the city is up to but they clearly plan on razing all of Atlantic from Market St. up to Artesia Blvd. they said they need to raze the Atlantic Theater so they can have the 61/2 acres to build a North LB Community center. including a library. there’s a library just blocks away at 5600 Orange Ave. i’ve been right here in NLB within five blocks of the theater for the last 56 years and i’ve never ask for or have ever heard of anyone in NLB saying there was a need for a community Center. especially right where the theater stands. or stood. the whole block directly across the street from the theater has been razed. and down three blocks where the old Atlantic Motel once stood has been razed and is open why haven’t they built it on them sites? not one of their ‘redevelopments’ promises have been fulfilled but for the demolishing and the putting up the city’s white fencing’s. John Thomas was the only one that was for not razing the theater and he excluded himself from the voting. the RDA has razed, demolished, scraped off, remove & erased so very much of LBC’s heritage and history to date and not replaced it in anyway that was promised. so they kept and saved the tower & terrazo. for what? i’m betting that they threw it on top of the kept & saved pieces of the Jergins Building and the promise of the Pike. you see how they saved the Loffs roof. it rotted sitting in the open lot. it didn’t even make it to the salvage yard where all the saved things are kept. i seen a pic of the salvage yard somewhere not long ago and it was alot of rusted piles. i know i’m well too late to act on anything but i thank you for letting me voice my thoughts.
wow.. i almost went by there yesterday. i’m glad i didn’t, i think it would’ve been too much of a shock while driving. they wasted no time. but then they’ve waited for this day for the last twelve years and were ready. i was nine years old (59) when i first walked up to that ticket booth, paid my quarter and went in. i can’t remember that first movie or the next but there wasn’t a week after that i wasn’t in the Atlantic Theater. the movie that is most memorable to me was the 1960 13 Ghosts. it was the first 3D movie that came out. as you went into the theater they handed you the pair of 3D glasses (with one red cellophane lense & one blue cellophane lense) you’d need to see the ghosts with. and you did! that movie scared the hell out of me for years to come. it’s a memory i can keep, and i have for the last 54 years. in my childhood memory box i still have them 3D glasses that i saw the 13 Ghosts with in 1960 at the Atlantic Theater. thank you for including my memories into the history of the Atlantic Theater. DebraLea
Hi Guys, i’ve gone by the Atlantic theater, nothing yet to suggest that the demolish is still scheduled for the 25th. no signs ect. last time i went by there were Edison trucks with crane all in the back of the building working up on the poles. other than that nothing looks like work happening. i make it a habit to go by that way anymore. i’ll let you know if i see anything. i’ve posted the info and all the pictures on a group site of Facebook ‘you know your from LBC when you remember…’ it has raised so many to remembering our days going to the Atlantic, Crest, Towne & LaShell Theaters, many back to the days they opened. they loved the pictures and i included this site so they can also find info of the many other theaters that once were here in LBC and those that still are. thanks again for being here.
Hi Guys. the date is coming up fast. is anyone suppose to be or going to be on site when they start demo? to point out what is being saved, and instructions of how it’s to be saved? don’t trust the RDA one bit. they write up pretty papers of promises. everything they say their going to do has ten ways of doing it and they choose which way. like the saving of the historical Jergens Trust Building concrete cherubs & moldings. i came across recently in the library’s community data digital archives photo’s of LB a picture of one of the LB salvage yards and there up against the chain link fence was the cherubs and all the moldings stacked up on the ground and the cherub has two foot high weeds growing up out of her bosom and under her chin where they are cracked apart. obviously stacked with a fork lift. nothing has ever gone into the plan of using them again as said they would. once again it’s a case of they promised they would, but never said when.. i’ll mark the date.. the 25th is on a Saturday? i’m betting LB isn’t even doing the razing or the building of the center or library. they hired it out instead of the city doing the job. the city doesn’t work on Saturdays and pay any work of overtime! we’ll see. i’ll go check out the data base LBPL to see if it’s to date. Deb
thanks MJ. we moved to 1074 Market in 59 when i was 9. then ironically to the little house south side of the Library. the one they are now saying is old and i forget the word (RDA word)but is what the excuse or reasons of ‘needing’ a new library built once the theater is razed. LB BS! i’m now at Market on Cerritos. across the street from where i started 54 years ago. ha. the new. and the gone. i remember more that’s gone than what’s new. not impressed.
oh it was on Wardlow Rd & Santa Fe Ave,
if wanted we spent every night at the Long Beach Drive-In. my best friend’s mother was the snack bar manager back in 65&66. we’d get to go up on the deck of snack bar roof to watch the movies. we were 15 & 16 them years and i have to say they were some of my happiest days, or evenings. they made my best memories of my teen days.
out of curiosity why isn’t the Oriental Theater still listed beings it did exist before it was torn down and the La Shell was built in it’s place? just wondering.
moving my car after the street cleaner went by today i decided to go directly over to the theater to see what there is to see beings the Google imagery above is of April 2011. besides seeing more property that’s been razed and empty with white fencing around it the theater is still untouched. i don’t understand the purpose of removing all eleven houses on the backside of the block? from South st to 59th st on Lime st. westside of the block all that’s left is eleven brand new driveways? i guess it now just a case of wait and see..
i grew up going to the Atlantic Theater from 1959-1966. i seen many movies there as well as the Towne & Crest. until i seen these pic’s i’d forgotten about the fountain and the beautiful flooring. in the last 54 years i’ve lived within a few blocks of it and now retired i’m only but two blocks away. i drive up and down Atlantic at all times coming and going, but i haven’t gone up & down it seeing anything until i used your street view navigation. what i saw was a property razed street (by the RDA) with what says city now owned white fencing covering all of it. and they say that the property 6.? acres there where the theater stands is needed to build a NLB community center? needed? there’s more property directly across the street running from South st. to 59th st. and twice that two blocks farther down from razing the motel many years back. nothing has been built or used for on any of the land they’ve taken. i know they’ve bullied most out of their properties and yelled blithe, pubic nuisance or anything that enables them to force sale to them. the one person that was in favor of the theater excluded himself from the vote. i don’t know what LBC is up to but i know that all this property condemned and taken has a big retail resale price compared to what they gave the past owners. looking in the LBPL Community info base & history annex their not done yet by a long shot. that’s what my dad said when they razed his favorite bar which was The Back Door behind the Front Door Theater next door. thanks for letting me have my say. i must admit i have’t even gone that way to see if is been taken down yet. i will.
more info can be found in the LB Public Library Digital Archives. in ‘Theaters'for pic’s. and the History Annex, and Community Information 'theaters’ lists 54 theaters in Long Beach.
no not if the RDA wants it down. i don’t know what the city is up to but they clearly plan on razing all of Atlantic from Market St. up to Artesia Blvd. they said they need to raze the Atlantic Theater so they can have the 61/2 acres to build a North LB Community center. including a library. there’s a library just blocks away at 5600 Orange Ave. i’ve been right here in NLB within five blocks of the theater for the last 56 years and i’ve never ask for or have ever heard of anyone in NLB saying there was a need for a community Center. especially right where the theater stands. or stood. the whole block directly across the street from the theater has been razed. and down three blocks where the old Atlantic Motel once stood has been razed and is open why haven’t they built it on them sites? not one of their ‘redevelopments’ promises have been fulfilled but for the demolishing and the putting up the city’s white fencing’s. John Thomas was the only one that was for not razing the theater and he excluded himself from the voting. the RDA has razed, demolished, scraped off, remove & erased so very much of LBC’s heritage and history to date and not replaced it in anyway that was promised. so they kept and saved the tower & terrazo. for what? i’m betting that they threw it on top of the kept & saved pieces of the Jergins Building and the promise of the Pike. you see how they saved the Loffs roof. it rotted sitting in the open lot. it didn’t even make it to the salvage yard where all the saved things are kept. i seen a pic of the salvage yard somewhere not long ago and it was alot of rusted piles. i know i’m well too late to act on anything but i thank you for letting me voice my thoughts.