As a movie-crazed kid growing up in Glendale, I felt like I came to the Eagle Rock Plaza theaters at least once a week through the eighties, into the early ‘90s. (The fact that it was walkable from Glendale High School did not hurt.) The theaters themselves were unimpressive, but they stole many of the best first-run movies away from the “better” theaters on Brand Boulevard in Glendale. I distinctly recall that, in the summer of 1982, they had E.T. The Extraterrestrial, Rocky III and Poltergeist running simultaneously. If you went to the theater on a Saturday night, the line would be so long it would snake halfway down the bottom floor of the mall.
Tony – As a movie fanatic kid who grew up in Glendale in the late ‘70s and 80s, I love your stories! I feel like, after this theater stopped function as the Regency 1 (which was in 1991 or '92 probably? The last first-run film I remember seeing there was Boyz In The Hood in July of '91.), I recall it having a short-lived rebirth under a different name, showing only movies out of Hong Kong and China. I recall seeing a double-bill of two films – one being Jackie Chan’s City Hunter – sometime in 1993 or 1994. But I think this experiment lasted a couple of months at most. Shortly thereafter, I believe it became the banquet hall. Does anyone else remember this?
As a movie-crazed kid growing up in Glendale, I felt like I came to the Eagle Rock Plaza theaters at least once a week through the eighties, into the early ‘90s. (The fact that it was walkable from Glendale High School did not hurt.) The theaters themselves were unimpressive, but they stole many of the best first-run movies away from the “better” theaters on Brand Boulevard in Glendale. I distinctly recall that, in the summer of 1982, they had E.T. The Extraterrestrial, Rocky III and Poltergeist running simultaneously. If you went to the theater on a Saturday night, the line would be so long it would snake halfway down the bottom floor of the mall.
Tony – As a movie fanatic kid who grew up in Glendale in the late ‘70s and 80s, I love your stories! I feel like, after this theater stopped function as the Regency 1 (which was in 1991 or '92 probably? The last first-run film I remember seeing there was Boyz In The Hood in July of '91.), I recall it having a short-lived rebirth under a different name, showing only movies out of Hong Kong and China. I recall seeing a double-bill of two films – one being Jackie Chan’s City Hunter – sometime in 1993 or 1994. But I think this experiment lasted a couple of months at most. Shortly thereafter, I believe it became the banquet hall. Does anyone else remember this?