Hitchcock Cinema & Public House
371 S. Hitchcock Way,
Santa Barbara,
CA
93105
371 S. Hitchcock Way,
Santa Barbara,
CA
93105
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Operated by: Metropolitan Theatres
Architects: Don Sharpe
Functions: Movies (Foreign), Movies (Independent)
Styles: Spanish Renaissance
Previous Names: Plaza de Oro Theatres
Phone Numbers:
Box Office:
877.789.6684
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News About This Theater
- Aug 6, 2009 — Plaza de Oro Theatre undergoing auditorium renovations
Metropolitan Theatre opened the 600-seat capacity twin screen Plaza de Oro Thetares on December 22, 1978; this twin screen theatre shows second run art house films. In June 2017 they renamed it Hitchcock Cinema & Public House.
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Metropolitan’s Plaza del Oro Twin opened on December 22, 1978, according to an item in the January 8, 1979, issue of Boxoffice Magazine. The new house had 300 seats in each auditorium, and the Spanish-style building was designed by Santa Barbara architect Don Sharpe. Oddly, the magazine describes the lobby decor as following a “…Gay Nineties theme.” An unusual feature of the theater was having the lobby situated between the auditoriums, to eliminate the bleed-through of sound so common in multi-screen theaters.
Metropolitan actually opened four new screens in the Santa Barbara area that December, as the circuit’s newly-twinned Fairview and Cinema Theatres in Goleta re-opened that month.
Time to change the name of the theatre. As of last month, it’s now the Hitchcock Cinema and Public House.