The showcase Cinema was situated next to Farralls Ice cream store, in close location to the bakery, and the Sega/Timeout arcade.
I have pictures of the mall when it was open air. There was the Broadway, Thrifty, The Software Corner, sports shop, Jewelcor and the heathfood store my mom worked at. We just cannot forget the Hollander Cafeteria. Mervyns was added later. I have seen the mall since it was converted and it sucked. Well I guess it is better in the rainy season…
I saw plenty of excellent films at that cinema including ET. Shame it isn’t still there. If memory serves it was a two screen cinema, and today I still can hear the voice who recorded message of the movie times.
It was this cinema, the Bookshire Cinema on Downey Blvd (we though that was an odd name as there is a Brookshire Blvd on the next street) and the other cinema that turned into a mexican cinema on the same street, we hung out at as kids. The Downey Cinema was great for $1 shows and cheap popcorn.
The showcase was famous for its $2 thursday night specials. I think I saw starwars there too. There was another cinema near the Mcdonalds on Florence & Lakewood shopping mall (near the Sizzler) that showed the original starwars before they edited it for time.
I’ll look around for the photos and submit them. Our family was professional photographers and there should be home movies and George Redfox somewhere….
Incidentially the original poster George Redfox, I went to school at Gallatin and Downey High in the 80s with a George Redfox, and if it is you George drop me an email so we can catch up.
The showcase Cinema was situated next to Farralls Ice cream store, in close location to the bakery, and the Sega/Timeout arcade.
I have pictures of the mall when it was open air. There was the Broadway, Thrifty, The Software Corner, sports shop, Jewelcor and the heathfood store my mom worked at. We just cannot forget the Hollander Cafeteria. Mervyns was added later. I have seen the mall since it was converted and it sucked. Well I guess it is better in the rainy season…
I saw plenty of excellent films at that cinema including ET. Shame it isn’t still there. If memory serves it was a two screen cinema, and today I still can hear the voice who recorded message of the movie times.
It was this cinema, the Bookshire Cinema on Downey Blvd (we though that was an odd name as there is a Brookshire Blvd on the next street) and the other cinema that turned into a mexican cinema on the same street, we hung out at as kids. The Downey Cinema was great for $1 shows and cheap popcorn.
The showcase was famous for its $2 thursday night specials. I think I saw starwars there too. There was another cinema near the Mcdonalds on Florence & Lakewood shopping mall (near the Sizzler) that showed the original starwars before they edited it for time.
I’ll look around for the photos and submit them. Our family was professional photographers and there should be home movies and George Redfox somewhere….
Incidentially the original poster George Redfox, I went to school at Gallatin and Downey High in the 80s with a George Redfox, and if it is you George drop me an email so we can catch up.