Just like so many Regal Theatres they don’t bother installing color dim lights, everything is just bright white lights. Look how they shine on the screen and to think companies pay to advertise on Regal movie screens and the image is ruined! Many other USA movie circuits are just as bad. Everything with a black look or tone is a light gray washed out. Do the lighting people know what is going on? In Europe they seem to care more about auditorium presentation when It comes to color lights and screen leaking.
Thanks Lou for the nice old ad. We need to bring this guy and his stage act back from the dead and have this show go on the Castro Theatre stage in SF next Oct 31 but at a increase in admissions! He can also appear at the New Mission Theatre the following night. The stay at home computer crowd probably never has seen a live stage show like this, they may even get frightened.
Thanks Kino for the nice photo. You won’t find this in the USA at AMC,Regal or Cinemark just bland walls with boring white lights. American cinema circuits have no class or showmanship these days.
ST thanks for this nice ad. Twentieth Century Fox’s ‘Carousel’ may have been filmed in CinemaScope 55® like ‘The King & I’ but very few cinemas showed It in true CinemaScope 55® wide film, most just on 35mm scope with 4 track mag stereo sound. Same with VistaVision® very few theatres had the special Paramount side ways VistaVision® projectors.
Just like the old days the former Fox West Coast Warfield Theatre on Market St in downtown San Francisco still gets a line up crowd way before the former cinema opens for a live show. The seats are gone from the former lower level (standing room only) but the seats are still in place up stairs in the balcony seating area. Not the best place in the world to be standing day or night. Bring pocket change for all the street people on Market St.
A Super Cinerama® title. They don’t say a word here about Cinerama® on this poster for the 35mm run in mono sound. Thanks Kino for this long lost Cinerama® poster art one sheet.
The only way you can see the semi full curve on the bottom is when they project a flat 1.85 full screen image on this Dolby Cinema® screen. When a scope movie is projected It just shows in the middle not on any curve. Almost the same size as the other screens in this complex and you have to pay more to see It here in auditorium #9.
Thanks Kino for the Cinerama® memories. Such a great curved screen they had. Too bad new cinemas today don’t have something like this. They just put in a big square screen with no masking.
Theatre #9 has the Dolby Cinema® set up and some of the best stereo sound in the East Bay. The screen is not very wide. Best place to hear a movie that has a Dolby Atmos® mix as the SF Bay Area does not have too many of these cinemas going. Things are changing soon when Cineworld/ Regal/UA Cinemas open a brand new theatre at the Stonestown Center in San Francisco (Summer 2020?) along with another new movie chain coming to SF in the old AMC 14 Van Ness site in SF. Stop by the AMC Bay Street Cinemas and check out Theatre #9 If you are in the Emeryville area across from SF near the Oakland Bay Bridge.
Thanks DD for this classic photo of your dad. So sharp and he even had a shirt and tie in the booth on in those days while a 35mm projectionist in hot Florida.
Paul***Thanks for this ad. We saw his double bill at the deco Golden State DelMar Theatre in Santa Cruz CA in the early 60’s with curtains that worked and dark blue lights on the stage drapes. I remember I saw them with my brother and cousin Neil and for some reason we laughed all the way through both of them as our parents left us in the DelMar. A fun day I will always remember. The DelMar Theatre in Santa Cruz is still around but the curtains are broke and they no longer play double bills like It did along with the torn down RKO NYC theatres shown.
I don’t think the local Indian tribe that just bought the Circus Drive in has any plans to re open the place for movies. They just need the land to expand charity things as they have buildings near the drive in now. There is another still open Drive In in Oak Harbor WA not to far away but with a much smaller square type 4.3 screen. I have been in contact with some local people to try to have the new owners save the giant steel screen tower for future use for the Indian reservation for private outdoor movie entertainment. The wide screen looks to be in great shape, just needs some screen paint and the steel support beams need the rust removed and painted over. Let the classic movies show again for the local Native Americans that live in this area. I wonder If It was a Shelby built screen, looks very sturdy. I think It has lights for intermission above the screen?
The Regal Theatre building is being demolished this week (Oct 24 2019) on Market ST in San Francisco CA. Check out my current photos on the Regal photo page. Destroyed for a new condo building that will sit empty or sold for give a way prices as the street is so bad now. To think the great Paramount Theatre was just next door also gone and replaced by a new building. No more B second run movie theatres left on Market St. Glad I went to a few in the late 1960’s when they had movies at bargain prices in high school. My favorite also was the Pix and Hub Theatres. The Pix Theatre building is still there but has two stores built in. Long live the Regal Theatre SF CA. The bums now on Market ST could have watched movies all day with their wine bottles If It had stayed open. So many sailors visited the Regal Theatre in It’s hay day, It gave them movie enjoyment when on leave in San Francisco and walking on a much nicer and safer Market St.
We hope the Native American tribe that are the new owners of this old classic Circus Drive In Theatre will keep the large CinemaScope® steal screen tower up for the local kids and adults on the reservation to still watch outdoor movies in the Summer with a green grass in front. They can build around the screen and place a small new video projector out a window aiming at the screen. Bring back a few old Drive In car speaker posts and hook up to a stereo amp from the small bright DCP projector. A few picnic tables can be added. Spread the word if you live in Anacortes WA as the bulldozers are almost ready to re develop this old Circus Drive In Theatre! Tell the local Indian tribe what can be done. They do many wonderful things for the local Native American community.
We have old photos of the cheap flat temp neon marquee that the Regal Theatre had up for many years after they tore off the nice big marquee, will have to look for them. They even kept the neon flat one up when It went porn and changed the name to the Bijou Theatre. Looks like the Regal on Market had 3 or 4 different names over the years.
The Circus Drive In days are numbered Oct 2019. The property has just been sold to the local Indian tribe in the area.They plan on tearing down the Circus lot. We are trying to tell them to keep the great, still in good shape steal large CinemaScope® screen, just needs a little paint and fix the rust on the bottom steal. Will make a great nostalgia place to watch DVD movies with a lawn and picnic tables in front for the Native American kids to watch movies is the summer months, no cars. They can put a cheap bright video projector with a good wide zoom lens from any new building they put up on the former Circus space. It will cost them big $ to tear down the screen. Check out some of my new private photos I just took of this classic still in good shape long closed drive In Theatre soon to leave us. Thanks to the current lease holder of RV’s/vans and trailers that let me take photos for ‘Cinema Treasures’ before It goes of the movie lot plus the indoor closed candy/projection building and the spooky managers apartment upstairs. Spread the word to SAVE THE SCREEN PLEASE!! In Anacortes WA Time is running out!
Just like so many Regal Theatres they don’t bother installing color dim lights, everything is just bright white lights. Look how they shine on the screen and to think companies pay to advertise on Regal movie screens and the image is ruined! Many other USA movie circuits are just as bad. Everything with a black look or tone is a light gray washed out. Do the lighting people know what is going on? In Europe they seem to care more about auditorium presentation when It comes to color lights and screen leaking.
Thanks Lou for the nice old ad. We need to bring this guy and his stage act back from the dead and have this show go on the Castro Theatre stage in SF next Oct 31 but at a increase in admissions! He can also appear at the New Mission Theatre the following night. The stay at home computer crowd probably never has seen a live stage show like this, they may even get frightened.
Thanks Mike, did they use any curtains to open and close?
Thanks David now site of a Burger place.
Thanks Kino for the nice photo. You won’t find this in the USA at AMC,Regal or Cinemark just bland walls with boring white lights. American cinema circuits have no class or showmanship these days.
ST thanks for this nice ad. Twentieth Century Fox’s ‘Carousel’ may have been filmed in CinemaScope 55® like ‘The King & I’ but very few cinemas showed It in true CinemaScope 55® wide film, most just on 35mm scope with 4 track mag stereo sound. Same with VistaVision® very few theatres had the special Paramount side ways VistaVision® projectors.
Just like the old days the former Fox West Coast Warfield Theatre on Market St in downtown San Francisco still gets a line up crowd way before the former cinema opens for a live show. The seats are gone from the former lower level (standing room only) but the seats are still in place up stairs in the balcony seating area. Not the best place in the world to be standing day or night. Bring pocket change for all the street people on Market St.
A Super Cinerama® title. They don’t say a word here about Cinerama® on this poster for the 35mm run in mono sound. Thanks Kino for this long lost Cinerama® poster art one sheet.
The only way you can see the semi full curve on the bottom is when they project a flat 1.85 full screen image on this Dolby Cinema® screen. When a scope movie is projected It just shows in the middle not on any curve. Almost the same size as the other screens in this complex and you have to pay more to see It here in auditorium #9.
Thanks Kino for the Cinerama® memories. Such a great curved screen they had. Too bad new cinemas today don’t have something like this. They just put in a big square screen with no masking.
Theatre #9 has the Dolby Cinema® set up and some of the best stereo sound in the East Bay. The screen is not very wide. Best place to hear a movie that has a Dolby Atmos® mix as the SF Bay Area does not have too many of these cinemas going. Things are changing soon when Cineworld/ Regal/UA Cinemas open a brand new theatre at the Stonestown Center in San Francisco (Summer 2020?) along with another new movie chain coming to SF in the old AMC 14 Van Ness site in SF. Stop by the AMC Bay Street Cinemas and check out Theatre #9 If you are in the Emeryville area across from SF near the Oakland Bay Bridge.
Thanks DD for this classic photo of your dad. So sharp and he even had a shirt and tie in the booth on in those days while a 35mm projectionist in hot Florida.
Paul***Thanks for this ad. We saw his double bill at the deco Golden State DelMar Theatre in Santa Cruz CA in the early 60’s with curtains that worked and dark blue lights on the stage drapes. I remember I saw them with my brother and cousin Neil and for some reason we laughed all the way through both of them as our parents left us in the DelMar. A fun day I will always remember. The DelMar Theatre in Santa Cruz is still around but the curtains are broke and they no longer play double bills like It did along with the torn down RKO NYC theatres shown.
I wonder what year about this was?
Thanks Nebulax for this great photo. Very colorful nice they used color lights in the building in the back. Must look good at night!
I don’t think the local Indian tribe that just bought the Circus Drive in has any plans to re open the place for movies. They just need the land to expand charity things as they have buildings near the drive in now. There is another still open Drive In in Oak Harbor WA not to far away but with a much smaller square type 4.3 screen. I have been in contact with some local people to try to have the new owners save the giant steel screen tower for future use for the Indian reservation for private outdoor movie entertainment. The wide screen looks to be in great shape, just needs some screen paint and the steel support beams need the rust removed and painted over. Let the classic movies show again for the local Native Americans that live in this area. I wonder If It was a Shelby built screen, looks very sturdy. I think It has lights for intermission above the screen?
The Regal Theatre building is being demolished this week (Oct 24 2019) on Market ST in San Francisco CA. Check out my current photos on the Regal photo page. Destroyed for a new condo building that will sit empty or sold for give a way prices as the street is so bad now. To think the great Paramount Theatre was just next door also gone and replaced by a new building. No more B second run movie theatres left on Market St. Glad I went to a few in the late 1960’s when they had movies at bargain prices in high school. My favorite also was the Pix and Hub Theatres. The Pix Theatre building is still there but has two stores built in. Long live the Regal Theatre SF CA. The bums now on Market ST could have watched movies all day with their wine bottles If It had stayed open. So many sailors visited the Regal Theatre in It’s hay day, It gave them movie enjoyment when on leave in San Francisco and walking on a much nicer and safer Market St.
Most of this area was on Indian land a long time ago now they have to buy It back.
We hope the Native American tribe that are the new owners of this old classic Circus Drive In Theatre will keep the large CinemaScope® steal screen tower up for the local kids and adults on the reservation to still watch outdoor movies in the Summer with a green grass in front. They can build around the screen and place a small new video projector out a window aiming at the screen. Bring back a few old Drive In car speaker posts and hook up to a stereo amp from the small bright DCP projector. A few picnic tables can be added. Spread the word if you live in Anacortes WA as the bulldozers are almost ready to re develop this old Circus Drive In Theatre! Tell the local Indian tribe what can be done. They do many wonderful things for the local Native American community.
We have old photos of the cheap flat temp neon marquee that the Regal Theatre had up for many years after they tore off the nice big marquee, will have to look for them. They even kept the neon flat one up when It went porn and changed the name to the Bijou Theatre. Looks like the Regal on Market had 3 or 4 different names over the years.
Former marquee plastic letter area in managers apartment upstairs.
The Circus Drive In days are numbered Oct 2019. The property has just been sold to the local Indian tribe in the area.They plan on tearing down the Circus lot. We are trying to tell them to keep the great, still in good shape steal large CinemaScope® screen, just needs a little paint and fix the rust on the bottom steal. Will make a great nostalgia place to watch DVD movies with a lawn and picnic tables in front for the Native American kids to watch movies is the summer months, no cars. They can put a cheap bright video projector with a good wide zoom lens from any new building they put up on the former Circus space. It will cost them big $ to tear down the screen. Check out some of my new private photos I just took of this classic still in good shape long closed drive In Theatre soon to leave us. Thanks to the current lease holder of RV’s/vans and trailers that let me take photos for ‘Cinema Treasures’ before It goes of the movie lot plus the indoor closed candy/projection building and the spooky managers apartment upstairs. Spread the word to SAVE THE SCREEN PLEASE!! In Anacortes WA Time is running out!
This is the side view of the refreshment,projection booth and managers apartment upstairs of the Circus Drive In.
Now a music studio Oct 2019. I hope some one saved the old classic theatre neon marquee sign that said Hardy’s?
Former home of Hardy’s Theatre. Let hope someone saved this classic old movie theatres neon sign from the marquee?