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Peasprout commented about UC Theatre Taube Family Music Hall on Mar 1, 2006 at 5:06 pm

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.

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Peasprout commented about UC Theatre Taube Family Music Hall on Apr 8, 2004 at 12:58 am

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.

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Peasprout commented about Granada Theatre on Mar 31, 2004 at 9:09 pm

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.

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Peasprout commented about Plaza Theater on Mar 31, 2004 at 8:54 pm

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.

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Peasprout on Mar 31, 2004 at 1:00 am

The beginning of the end for Hawthorne. Now nearly everything is gone, and Hawthorne is just another homgenous strip mall. :(

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Peasprout commented about UC Theatre Taube Family Music Hall on Mar 31, 2004 at 12:44 am

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.

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Peasprout commented about UC Theatre Taube Family Music Hall on Mar 31, 2004 at 12:43 am

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.