UA Cerritos Mall Cinemas 4
333 Los Cerritos Center,
Cerritos,
CA
90701
333 Los Cerritos Center,
Cerritos,
CA
90701
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Now that I think about it…I think my the manager at this theater in 1982 last name might have been Taramino (sp?) and not Tarantino.
The finish line store that took the place of this theater right after it closes has moved to another part of the mall. The door to this space was left open this past week and you could stare right into the old theater space. It has been gutted again. What’s going in now who knows.
Nice pictures, Zubi. Love that early 1970’s look.
I was there in 79/ 80 I loved Joesphine she was so Damn nice Didn’t speak good English but she tried, She was Sharp, I helped her run the Twin , and taught her how do handle crowds, the thing I liked most she wasn’t afraid to get dirty if something broke, I am glad she made it too District Manager Where is she now?? I know Marsha got married shes so Happy now, Those were Fun Times in the olden days.
First time I went to this theater was as a kid in the 70s for a James Bond triple bill…Dr No, From Russia With Love, and Thunderball.
I worked there for a few months in the early 80s (late 82 I think) when the manager was Mr. Tarantino (probably Tarantex?). This was also at the same time as the projectionist strike Meredith is referring to. I used to help the manager and assistant managers with running the projectors.
I also worked for Josephine when I first started earlier in 82 at the UA Marketplace in Long Beach when she was the manager there.
I just read that Marsha Naify married a women named, Ana Pinheiro.
Zubi, You are right! I was thinking of the Twin out in the parking lot. Whoops! Honestly, I have worked at so many theaters that it is hard to remember them all. I have a newpaper clipping with me holding a “UNFAIR” sign and standing outside with other brothers in a photo when we were striking. hahaha. Then, I got my job back as a technician, not a projectionist. Well, for a while anyway. tee-hee. Man, I need to dig that out that article and reminisce.
Thanks for the clear-up Zubi!
Um, wonder what the Naify’s are doing today???
When I was there, Josephine, an Asian lady, was the DM and Naify was back up to San Francisco.
I managed this dump ,for 6 months it was really a grind house it opened at 10 am and ran 1045pm shows in the evening, UA didn’t spend a dime on this place the twin was in the parking lot, my friend Josephine was the Manager of the twin, it was a lot nicer than the 4 plex in the mall and it had great sound and 70mm, it played all the big first run films and then they moved them to the mall after they were dead. Marsha Naify was the District Manager any one know where she is? still in Long Beach?
This was a great place to work in the mid 1980s. I was the last union theater technician to work in Southern California.
Hey, that did not bother me because I was about to become a radar air traffic controller at ZLA, the air route traffic control center in Palmdale, CA. Finally, UA fired me, but two weeks later, I was at the FAA academy in OKC, OK.
What was cool about this place is that it had Norelcos to run 70mm in a four-plex. Yes, 70mm and six-track Dolby stereo. Man, that had to hurt AMC, also in the mall. Why? AMC only had 35mm and mono sound. Ouch!!!
Positioned in the corridor between Robinson’s and the Broadway, the theater was on the west side of the mall across from the early-80’s arcade Mecca “Sega Center”. I remember the ticket booth out front was made of dark wood veneer with a suspended, illuminated cube with the numbers 1 – 4 in 70’s “Laugh-In” font. Once you purchased the ticket you walked through the glass doors behind the ticket booth; the snack bar was to the left in a large-ish lobby. Directly across from the snack bar were video games like Pac Man or a pinball machine (or both).
The theaters set off a central corridor. The screens and auditoriums were never as big as the UA Twin outside, but they helped me kill a lot of Summers. I remember seeing Black Beauty, For Your Eyes Only, and my favorite first-run double-bill: 9 to 5 with Airplane!; in fact, I think this theater ran a lot of double features in the early 80’s. Later I saw The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover there, must have been the early 90’s?
Also known as the Cerritos 4 roughly from 1984-1995.
It is just Cerritos, ken – and, judging from the Finish Line location, the address was 333 Los Cerritos Mall, Cerritos, CA 90703. Interesting that you should call it a “shoebox,” Jeff – it’s a shoe store now!
I don’t think the city is called Los Cerritos. I think it’s just Cerritos.
This theatre closed prior to the renovation of the mall in the mid 90’s. It was replaced by the UA 11 plex down by Macys. The location today is filled by The Finish Line. The Main Part of the store in the back is where the auditoriums were. It was a typical shoebox. I went there before the theatre closed.