Older man here; went to the UC a lot back during the Taft administration. And back in my day I used to have to walk 14 miles through 8 feet of snow just to fight for a seat. Because there were only 9 seats back then. Grumble.
Putman’s post reminded me…I too had “my” seat. It was up near the front, on the right side of the middle rows…there was this aisle that had a little bit more leg room. For a 6'3 guy, that is important. The fifth seat over…prime seating.
I saw movies here at least once a week while I was a high school student at the now defunct St. Anthony’s boarding school. Good times, those were. And the Granada was, and hopefully still is, a wonderful theater.
Losing the Plaza was the beginning of the end for Hawthorne. One by one all of the great hangouts have been demolished, leaving only a crime-ridden, homogenized urban strip mall, indifferentiable from any other.
One other thing…does anyone else have some of the film listing calendars from the U.C.? I saved a lot of them for some reason, but not all of them. It would be neat to compare and remember what films I saw there and when. I am if you want to e-mail me.
I was telling a friend about a 12 hour long horror movie marathon I watched at the U.C. Theatre in 1996, and it prompted me to get out the old calendars I saved. That made me quite melancholy, and led to me google-ing the theatre and finding this site. I’d give darn near anything to have the U.C. back. I was there sometimes 5 times in a week. It’s absurd that Berkeley couldn’t find a way to save that place.
Older man here; went to the UC a lot back during the Taft administration. And back in my day I used to have to walk 14 miles through 8 feet of snow just to fight for a seat. Because there were only 9 seats back then. Grumble.
Putman’s post reminded me…I too had “my” seat. It was up near the front, on the right side of the middle rows…there was this aisle that had a little bit more leg room. For a 6'3 guy, that is important. The fifth seat over…prime seating.
I saw movies here at least once a week while I was a high school student at the now defunct St. Anthony’s boarding school. Good times, those were. And the Granada was, and hopefully still is, a wonderful theater.
Losing the Plaza was the beginning of the end for Hawthorne. One by one all of the great hangouts have been demolished, leaving only a crime-ridden, homogenized urban strip mall, indifferentiable from any other.
The beginning of the end for Hawthorne. Now nearly everything is gone, and Hawthorne is just another homgenous strip mall. :(
One other thing…does anyone else have some of the film listing calendars from the U.C.? I saved a lot of them for some reason, but not all of them. It would be neat to compare and remember what films I saw there and when. I am if you want to e-mail me.
I was telling a friend about a 12 hour long horror movie marathon I watched at the U.C. Theatre in 1996, and it prompted me to get out the old calendars I saved. That made me quite melancholy, and led to me google-ing the theatre and finding this site. I’d give darn near anything to have the U.C. back. I was there sometimes 5 times in a week. It’s absurd that Berkeley couldn’t find a way to save that place.