Thanks Howard for the image. How lucky some movie goers were to see this movie on the UA D-150 curved screen in select cities around the world. This film was shot in D-150 one of just a few.
Lets hope maybe some other movie chain or even Netflik or Amazon will buy or take over the now closed Paris Theatre NY lease. People need to protest and complain to the money hungry real estate owners. Thanks Howard for the photo image. The landlord at the Paris may have another deal in the works who knows?
Thanks Dallas, this was one of the first curved screen Todd-AO theatres in the Portland OR area now long gone. Like the Fox Theatre across the street in downtown Portland.
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!
Thanks OP yes I think they had the white work lights on when I took this photo. Was inside a few days ago when the bar was open and they were red again. Now only If they can put some color lights inside Theatre #1. All the pre show is washed out on the screen by overhead white deco roof lights shining down on the screen. This can be fixed by putting in a shield on the 3 ceiling lights so the light does not aim down at the screen on the backside. The side old organ grills need some blue or green/turquoise lighting along with the red curtains. Many years ago this classic cinema had blue lights on dim in a dark theatre when a movie was going. Now everything is turned off. Showmanship needs to come back at the Alamo ‘New Mission’. Check out the old Fox Stanford Theatre in Palo Alto CA and see their color lights during a movie.
Too bad AMC does not advertise in newspapers these days. They wonder why they have a drop in admissions. At least they can run ad listing on Fri/Sat in key markets. I bet business would pick up. Like In San Francisco CA Century/Cinemark & Landmark Theatres still have movie listing ads in the papers but AMC & Regal and many independent cinemas don’t bother. Guess what theatres the tourists go to? Thanks Ride for the ad listings.
Thanks Dallas for this classic photo. These side black light murals of scenes of deco San Francisco glowed dark blue when a movie was on. They all left when the cinema was turned into a drug store and a small cinema space put in in the former balcony. Too bad no one saved this classic SF black light art. If you look on the side fire exits from the front right side you can see the whole cement theatre building still standing. They just gutted the inside. Maybe some day when the W drug store goes MR Lee’s family can put the Marina Theatre back downstairs and restore the black light murals if he can find a artist that knows black light art image glow. I have some of the vapor black light bulbs from this cinema, they won’t work with my electric set up.
Thanks for the image Lou. Must have been a great movie theatre to see wide screen movies at in the 1950’s with surround stereo sound and curtains. Glad they are re opening for the opera crowd.
Thanks Texas for this great 1954 CinemaScope® ad from NY. I remember as a kid going to see it with my parents and brother at the Golden State DelMar Theatre in downtown Santa Cruz CA on their new wide screen. We had to sit up on the right side of the balcony and I remember one of the fist times hearing 4 track mag stereo sound from the wall surround RCA speakers when the airplane engines started to fail. I kept looking up at the speakers with the sound effects that came on at times during the film. Was so happy when our family got our first stereo record turntable in the late 1950’s. I think I even bought the soundtrack album.
Thanks Texas for the CinemaScope® ad. I doubt the Ideal Drive In had stereophonic sound in the small car speakers like It says in the ad? This was probably copied from a standard 20th Century Fox CinemaScope® ad for indoor cinemas.
Just like 20th Century Fox did in their early CinemaScope® ads that showed a screen way to curved going into the seats the ABC Ultra-Vision® company did the same thing. The Ultra-Vision® curved screen was nice and curved but not like the drawing in this newspaper ad. I think from I remember It was not as curved as the UA D-150 screen. One interesting point in the booth with the Ultra-Vision® set up It had two projectors coming out of one port window. They used a mirror set up so both projectors were centered in the middle of the screen for a straight throw and used a special lens. I wonder today around the USA are there any of these Ultra screens still left?
Thanks Ray for the neat ad. We had one of these Ultra-Vision® curved screen theatres near SF in Daly City CA in the Seramonte Mall area run by ABC Plitt Theatres. It was torn down many years ago for a parking lot. Now later this year they will start building a brand new multi cinema around the Seramonte Mall area maybe in a parking lot? We still don’t know who will operate the new cinema.
Thanks Elmo for this hot curtain theatre photo. It’s sad all the multiplex cinema companies today would never put in nice curtains like this these days. Just a plain old white screen with boring ads plus wall lights going on the sides of the screen making the pre show ads all washed out with gray not black images. Thanks again.
I hope some one from the Cinema Treasures site can post a better photo then the dirty theatre set up like the one that greats you now when you go to this New Mission site. The old cinema has way better photos to put on the first photo. Thanks!
It may have been on one of the posters along with the Vogue Theatre in Hollywood but after 4 days of drive by night neon shooting on 35mm film MR Tarantino only used the outside view shots of these classic cinemas for a few seconds on the edited finished movie. Maybe on the extras on the Blu Ray disk we will see more along with the former Pussy Cat Theatre on Hollywood Blvd. Go see the movie you will enjoy It!
Thanks David for the photo. After the parking lot they built two new Chinese theatres next to the large theatre. They were good size cinemas. Now they have been torn out many years ago for the Dolby complex. These theatres tried to copy the look of the main Chinese but were very cheap looking inside and outside, they did have curtains.
Very small new cinema for the area. Cinemark had VCC USA Construction put this theatre in the Hayward Southland Mall before any other chain came in. This VCC USA construction company has put many new cinemas around the West Coast for many different cinema circuits. They soon later this year will be building a brand new cinema at the Serramonte Mall in Daly City CA near San Francisco CA they also will be remodeling the mall. VCC is building the brand new Regal Stonestown 12 in San Francisco CA that will be larger then the Cinemark Southland Mall 5. I will try to get over to this new Hayward Mall cinema and take photos soon. Probably the same size as the Cinemark Marina 5 near Monterey CA.
Thanks Howard for the image. How lucky some movie goers were to see this movie on the UA D-150 curved screen in select cities around the world. This film was shot in D-150 one of just a few.
Lets hope maybe some other movie chain or even Netflik or Amazon will buy or take over the now closed Paris Theatre NY lease. People need to protest and complain to the money hungry real estate owners. Thanks Howard for the photo image. The landlord at the Paris may have another deal in the works who knows?
Thanks Dallas, this was one of the first curved screen Todd-AO theatres in the Portland OR area now long gone. Like the Fox Theatre across the street in downtown Portland.
Thanks David for the photo image. How nice to see color lights on a curtain. Something you don’t find in USA cinemas.
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!
Thanks OP yes I think they had the white work lights on when I took this photo. Was inside a few days ago when the bar was open and they were red again. Now only If they can put some color lights inside Theatre #1. All the pre show is washed out on the screen by overhead white deco roof lights shining down on the screen. This can be fixed by putting in a shield on the 3 ceiling lights so the light does not aim down at the screen on the backside. The side old organ grills need some blue or green/turquoise lighting along with the red curtains. Many years ago this classic cinema had blue lights on dim in a dark theatre when a movie was going. Now everything is turned off. Showmanship needs to come back at the Alamo ‘New Mission’. Check out the old Fox Stanford Theatre in Palo Alto CA and see their color lights during a movie.
Too bad AMC does not advertise in newspapers these days. They wonder why they have a drop in admissions. At least they can run ad listing on Fri/Sat in key markets. I bet business would pick up. Like In San Francisco CA Century/Cinemark & Landmark Theatres still have movie listing ads in the papers but AMC & Regal and many independent cinemas don’t bother. Guess what theatres the tourists go to? Thanks Ride for the ad listings.
Thanks Dallas for this classic photo. These side black light murals of scenes of deco San Francisco glowed dark blue when a movie was on. They all left when the cinema was turned into a drug store and a small cinema space put in in the former balcony. Too bad no one saved this classic SF black light art. If you look on the side fire exits from the front right side you can see the whole cement theatre building still standing. They just gutted the inside. Maybe some day when the W drug store goes MR Lee’s family can put the Marina Theatre back downstairs and restore the black light murals if he can find a artist that knows black light art image glow. I have some of the vapor black light bulbs from this cinema, they won’t work with my electric set up.
Thanks for the image Lou. Must have been a great movie theatre to see wide screen movies at in the 1950’s with surround stereo sound and curtains. Glad they are re opening for the opera crowd.
Thanks Texas for this great 1954 CinemaScope® ad from NY. I remember as a kid going to see it with my parents and brother at the Golden State DelMar Theatre in downtown Santa Cruz CA on their new wide screen. We had to sit up on the right side of the balcony and I remember one of the fist times hearing 4 track mag stereo sound from the wall surround RCA speakers when the airplane engines started to fail. I kept looking up at the speakers with the sound effects that came on at times during the film. Was so happy when our family got our first stereo record turntable in the late 1950’s. I think I even bought the soundtrack album.
Thanks Texas for the CinemaScope® ad. I doubt the Ideal Drive In had stereophonic sound in the small car speakers like It says in the ad? This was probably copied from a standard 20th Century Fox CinemaScope® ad for indoor cinemas.
Just like 20th Century Fox did in their early CinemaScope® ads that showed a screen way to curved going into the seats the ABC Ultra-Vision® company did the same thing. The Ultra-Vision® curved screen was nice and curved but not like the drawing in this newspaper ad. I think from I remember It was not as curved as the UA D-150 screen. One interesting point in the booth with the Ultra-Vision® set up It had two projectors coming out of one port window. They used a mirror set up so both projectors were centered in the middle of the screen for a straight throw and used a special lens. I wonder today around the USA are there any of these Ultra screens still left?
Thanks Ray for the neat ad. We had one of these Ultra-Vision® curved screen theatres near SF in Daly City CA in the Seramonte Mall area run by ABC Plitt Theatres. It was torn down many years ago for a parking lot. Now later this year they will start building a brand new multi cinema around the Seramonte Mall area maybe in a parking lot? We still don’t know who will operate the new cinema.
Thanks Elmo for this hot curtain theatre photo. It’s sad all the multiplex cinema companies today would never put in nice curtains like this these days. Just a plain old white screen with boring ads plus wall lights going on the sides of the screen making the pre show ads all washed out with gray not black images. Thanks again.
Thanks David for the photo. What a huge UA neon tower sign. Good thing a big earthquake did not take It down.
I hope some one from the Cinema Treasures site can post a better photo then the dirty theatre set up like the one that greats you now when you go to this New Mission site. The old cinema has way better photos to put on the first photo. Thanks!
They have a great crisp bright 35mm film scope image from their old 35mm projector on a platter set up system.
Projection booth for smaller cinema space.
Don’t you just love what they did for the word HOLLYWOOD. Looks like they are short on L’s and have plenty of 7’s!
Ceiling lights in the larger cinema space. I’d like to see blue lights up in the fixtures.
Thanks Kino for the photo. When the wind blows these portable air blow up screens can make the picture hard to watch.
It may have been on one of the posters along with the Vogue Theatre in Hollywood but after 4 days of drive by night neon shooting on 35mm film MR Tarantino only used the outside view shots of these classic cinemas for a few seconds on the edited finished movie. Maybe on the extras on the Blu Ray disk we will see more along with the former Pussy Cat Theatre on Hollywood Blvd. Go see the movie you will enjoy It!
Thanks David for the photo. After the parking lot they built two new Chinese theatres next to the large theatre. They were good size cinemas. Now they have been torn out many years ago for the Dolby complex. These theatres tried to copy the look of the main Chinese but were very cheap looking inside and outside, they did have curtains.
Thanks so much Gerald for this Cinerama® photo. Must have looked nice when set up.
Very small new cinema for the area. Cinemark had VCC USA Construction put this theatre in the Hayward Southland Mall before any other chain came in. This VCC USA construction company has put many new cinemas around the West Coast for many different cinema circuits. They soon later this year will be building a brand new cinema at the Serramonte Mall in Daly City CA near San Francisco CA they also will be remodeling the mall. VCC is building the brand new Regal Stonestown 12 in San Francisco CA that will be larger then the Cinemark Southland Mall 5. I will try to get over to this new Hayward Mall cinema and take photos soon. Probably the same size as the Cinemark Marina 5 near Monterey CA.