UA Marketplace 8
965 E. Birch Street,
No. 318,
Brea,
CA
92821
965 E. Birch Street,
No. 318,
Brea,
CA
92821
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This opened on February 12th, 1988. Grand opening ad posted.
This is the theatre I got my start at as a usher. Got me into a career I stuck with for 18 years. Great memories, like opening weekend of ID4.
Auditoriums 7 and 8 were THX sertified for a time. Always a great place on the weekends. The lease killed this place when Edwards built a theatre down the street. The lease said the theatre couldn’t open mid week becuase it shared a parking structer with the office building next store. Most memerable time for me was as a 17 year old kid getting threatened by a customer because his wife thought I was rude to her. It was my second day.
The UA Marketplace Cinemas in Brea was designed by San Francisco architect Daniel T. Uesugi.
I went to this theater many times while living in the Brea/Fullerton area (1991-1996) and actually liked it a lot. It was way better than the 4 screener in Brea Mall, which was a total dump, and the Brea Plaza 5, which was OK, but just wasn’t as nice or comfortable. From what I have read from other sources, this theater was stuck with a bad lease, which prevented them from showing matinees, or something like that. Combine that with Edwards opening a 10-screen and 12-screen theater in the new Downtown Brea, and that should explain why this place eventually closed.
This is now a 24 hour fitness. It was your typical UA design of the late 80’s where you had all 8 theater entrances in the lobby. Similar design to the UA Horton Plaza 7.
In case you missed the UA, operated by United Artists.
Now a Fitness Center??