Chabot Cinema
2853 Castro Valley Boulevard,
Castro Valley,
CA
94546
2853 Castro Valley Boulevard,
Castro Valley,
CA
94546
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Here are some rare 35mm policy trailers from the Chabot Theatre in Castro Valley. The Jack Tillmany You Tube site has them up. The Chabot Theatre will soon re open after the C19 dark time. The children must have been rowdy in the 1950’s at the Chabot. Now those kids may have kids of their own.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8uEctWJgOs&t=620s
The new manager ‘Josh’ will help bring this movie theatre treasure back to life. In the future new rugs, seats, new stage curtains and much needed color lights on the side walls and curtains are coming I have been told. A new stereo sound system is also in the works. Thanks ‘Josh’ for bringing back some showmanship to this nice single screen in Castro Valley CA. This past Sat afternoon 8/24/2019 they ran with the help of the guys that run the car cruise night in Castro Valley a showing in DCP of ‘American Graffiti’ The scope image was nice crisp, bright and clear along with the stereo surround. I will be helping them with the color lights inside. Thanks again Josh!
Their new website https://www.thechabot.com/
The Chabot Theatre has just been sold June 4 2019. No longer run by Cinelux. The buyer was ‘Smalltown Society’ along with the First Presbyterian Church of Hayward CA. They plan on still showing first run family movies along with special events.
Started going to this show in the 1950’s and still enjoy it. Saw the original “Journey to the Center of the Earth”
Theatre for sale on Loopnet $350,000 includes building .
A 2010 photo can be seen here.
I’ve posted information and photos from a recent visit here.
Correction: the balcony does NOT have HIGH BACK ROCKER SEATS, it has HIGH BACK SEATS, they DO NOT ROCK.
Here is a 1985 photo:
http://snipurl.com/gjy3r
Here is an ad for the Chabot that was on the Hayward Motor Movies page, but when I saw this ad it struck me as a very unusual double feature: “The Invisivble Boy” (Science monsters war against mankind, featuring Robbie the Robot), plus! “The Three Faces of Eve.” That’ll give the kiddies nightmares, if they even stuck around for it. http://tinyurl.com/2qhzgn
The Chabot is a hidden treasure! Has stadium style seating, with a big screen with a great sound system. The Chabot building, the glass display cases, and location of the box office and the looks of the marquee remind me very much of the Plaza Theatre on East 12th at 7th Avenue in East Oakland. I wonder if it was the same architect. The plaza had regular seating but about the same size! Restrooms and stairs to the projection booth are the same!
I am happy to report that the facade refurbishment of the Chabot is now complete and looks beautiful. They didn’t replace some of the facade neon which outlined the geometric Greek Key patterns in the facade stucco, but this is a relatively minor disappointment. The marquee, below-marquee canopy, lettering, and the vertical decorative streamlined pilon fin which extends up the facade from the marquee all have new neon tubing applied—in colors of magenta, red, yellow, white, and blue. In addition, some new decorative stucco work has been done over the entry, beneath the marquee soffit which repeats the Key motif on the upper facade. There are also new exterior neo-moderne uplighting fixtures applied to the exterior sidewalls—a nice touch since those walls had formerly been blatantly plain.
The theatre opened in the 1950s. As of right now, its facade neon and marquee are being restored.