I saw the opening of Superman here. Somehow I got so excited it set off a seizure and had to have help walking to the bus a short block away.
Always wondered what they were going to do with it after the ‘89 quake. Ever notice that drugstores seem to have money to put drugstores in theatres and wonder why they couldnt restore one for a change…:(
I saw How The West Was Won & It’s A Mad, Mad, Mad World when they came out originally in this theatre. I used to spend a lot of time at the zoo nearby and remember poor Smokey The Bear in his concrete cage looking forlorn and bored.
I don’t see it on the site, but there was a theatre on Georgia Avenue near the intersection of Columbia Road in which I saw the original showing of The Tingler with Vincent Price and the tingler devices were under the seat (and worked !) and a nurse was in the lobby with an ambulance outside and all the attendant William Castle posters and hype too. I also saw House On Haunted Hill and 13 Ghosts there. There was a newstand about a block away that was open 24 hours. We moved away in 1964 so that should date it a little.
I saw this theatre for the first time when there was a huge picture of Shirley Eaton on the top of it advertising Goldfinger. Being all of 11 or so it was mindboggling…
I saw the opening of Superman here. Somehow I got so excited it set off a seizure and had to have help walking to the bus a short block away.
Always wondered what they were going to do with it after the ‘89 quake. Ever notice that drugstores seem to have money to put drugstores in theatres and wonder why they couldnt restore one for a change…:(
George Senda
Concord, Ca
I saw How The West Was Won & It’s A Mad, Mad, Mad World when they came out originally in this theatre. I used to spend a lot of time at the zoo nearby and remember poor Smokey The Bear in his concrete cage looking forlorn and bored.
George Senda
Concord, Ca
I don’t see it on the site, but there was a theatre on Georgia Avenue near the intersection of Columbia Road in which I saw the original showing of The Tingler with Vincent Price and the tingler devices were under the seat (and worked !) and a nurse was in the lobby with an ambulance outside and all the attendant William Castle posters and hype too. I also saw House On Haunted Hill and 13 Ghosts there. There was a newstand about a block away that was open 24 hours. We moved away in 1964 so that should date it a little.
George Senda
Concord, Ca
I saw this theatre for the first time when there was a huge picture of Shirley Eaton on the top of it advertising Goldfinger. Being all of 11 or so it was mindboggling…
George Senda
Concord, Ca