I was at the Grand Opening of the Rolling Hills. I guess Tab Hunter was there but as a 16 y/o boy I only remember seeing Suzanne Pleshette and Shirley Jones. My father was the Chief Projectionist for SRO at the time and we came down to Torrance so he could handle the finishing touches. I recall that when they put the Cinemascope lenses on part of the picture was blocked by the ports. Either the projectors were mounted too close to the ports or the ports were cut too small, I can’t recall now but they had to cut the ports bigger to resolve the problem. Also recall that the outside roof was originally flat but a rain storm that caused leakage into the auditorium and I think it was modified, that may have been before the Grand Opening, not sure but I just remember Dad saying “I told them not to build a flat roofâ€.
I was at the Grand Opening of the Rolling Hills. I guess Tab Hunter was there but as a 16 y/o boy I only remember seeing Suzanne Pleshette and Shirley Jones. My father was the Chief Projectionist for SRO at the time and we came down to Torrance so he could handle the finishing touches. I recall that when they put the Cinemascope lenses on part of the picture was blocked by the ports. Either the projectors were mounted too close to the ports or the ports were cut too small, I can’t recall now but they had to cut the ports bigger to resolve the problem. Also recall that the outside roof was originally flat but a rain storm that caused leakage into the auditorium and I think it was modified, that may have been before the Grand Opening, not sure but I just remember Dad saying “I told them not to build a flat roofâ€.