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 MR B for this photo. So nice to see a movie chain put in some COLOR in the lobby halls. The rugs and walls look great. So many movie theatre circuits have no concept of design and love white on the walls and lights no class. This Cinemagic has some style!
Thanks CC for this classic movie ad. I remember when this first played the Fox West Coast Theatre FOX OAKLAND in downtown Oakland CA the manager MR Mc Dougal put up on the marquee ‘OAKLAND’S OWN STEVE REEVES’. Steve was on stage I think opening week along with a bodybuilding contest ‘MR Oakland’ on the Fox Oakland stage. The Fox Oakland is still open with live shows and looks great these days.
A big thank you CC for showing us these 3D ads. The 3D from 1953/54 was so much better with two projectors going at once. Most of the new 3D movies today were not even shot with two cameras just computer changed from 2D to 3D. Most theatres now just use one projector for 3D not two. Nothing much with current movies with things coming off the screen. At least both of these old 3D two projector films have been restored to brand new 3D BluRay DVD’s. If you have a 3D TV you will love all the 3D effects.
Thanks Ken for the image. Lets hope Regal that is building the brand new UA/Regal Stonestown 11 Theatres in San Francisco puts in some color lights like this new cinema in NYC. Red and blue look great so much better then boring white lights like so many American circuits put in because they have no design team and white lights are cheap.
GD* Looks like fun, lets get a lame USA movie circuit to bring this in but in a bigger auditorium with a larger curved screen and seats. Not just 3 rows, do 20! Do a whole movie with this system. Thanks for the image.
Texas thanks for the photo. The noisy Regal side wall white blocks will bounce so much screen light reflection back into the audience. Who does this kind of wall design for UA/Regal? They must not test out the problems. Please Regal now called Cineworld please stay with a dark solid wall color and keep our eyes focused on the screen light.
Thanks Texas for these colorful inside shots. The only thing that needs to go is the white ceiling. The reflex must be terrible from the light on the screen. Time to paint or replace to black or dark purple ceiling panels.
The new movie opens July 26 2019. A few theatres will be showing ‘Once Upon A Time In Hollywood’ in blow up 70mm film prints and many will be showing It on 35mm film. We will be seeing It at the only Northern CA 70mm print at the Drafthouse New Mission Theatre in San Francisco. The New Beverly Cinema will play a 35mm film print in Los Angeles CA. Lets hope MR Tarantino will obtain a 70mm film projector some day and enlarge the screen a little with a slight curve at the New Beverly. Curtains also please!
Thanks CC for the cool stereophonic ad. I wonder how big the screen was for Shane at ‘Fox Grauman’s Chinese Hollywood’ with a blow lens? A few months later they put in a semi curved 20th Century Fox CinemaScope® screen with 4 track mag stereo sound. I wonder if ‘Shane’ had surround sound or just split speakers on the stage?
If you sit in he last few rows under the booth you will not hear any stereo surround sounds coming from any speakers. There are no separate speakers in the back lower area like at the Seattle Cinerama has.
This former UA/Regal Riverfront Twin Theatre has opened again in downtown Santa Cruz CA now called DNA’s Comedy Lab. They serve beer & wine with some food. They mainly use the right side former movie auditorium. We wish them luck and maybe they can run classic older comedy movies on DCP in the other space on the left side of the large wide lobby on special nights. Time to bring into the Santa Cruz area some new comedy acts and other events. Glad the owners did not gut the inside for something else! Check out the new photos as of July 6 2019.
Thanks DF87**To bad the Syufy family did not keep this great neon marquee when they built a mall on the Drive In lot next to the busy Nimitz freeway. The Syufy’s built a new multiplex many years ago under the Century name now sold to Cinemark Theatres were the old theatre once stood. The classic flashing sign could have saved and used as a center piece for the huge mall that once people came to watch outdoor movies. If you are ever in Niles CA the big antique town near Fremont check out the train depot museum they have a small HO train set up and have a miniature Union City DI Theatre lot and sign with the train going around It. Looks like the real thing!
Just visited again the Cinerama Dome in Hollywood. Same old problem with no lights on when you come into the theatre to find your numbered seat. They have the blue lights turned on so low on the curtains and the lights on the gold ceiling turned way down. The worst is the DCP scope picture. They have masking on the bottom right and left part of the curved screen going up words. I have been to many large curved screens lately and you don’t see this problem on the bottom. I think they can correct this bottom problem by doing a pre test curve alignment to push the curved image down more to fit the corners not loop the image up? They have seemed to have put in these new cheap looking surround speakers that have the grill off that shine the treble cones. The old surround speakers were hidden behind the side wall curtains. Seems the Cinerama Dome had way better base a few years ago. The new 3D scope Disney movie ‘Toy Story 4’ did not have the deep base or was it the speaker set up at the Dome? At least the image looked bright and crisp. Pacific needs to turn up the lights and correct the bottom curve problem. Go check other theatres that have the curve but don’t curve up the bottom corners, see what they are doing to correct the image on the bottom corners. .
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.
Thanks MR B for this photo. So nice to see a movie chain put in some COLOR in the lobby halls. The rugs and walls look great. So many movie theatre circuits have no concept of design and love white on the walls and lights no class. This Cinemagic has some style!
Thanks CC for this classic movie ad. I remember when this first played the Fox West Coast Theatre FOX OAKLAND in downtown Oakland CA the manager MR Mc Dougal put up on the marquee ‘OAKLAND’S OWN STEVE REEVES’. Steve was on stage I think opening week along with a bodybuilding contest ‘MR Oakland’ on the Fox Oakland stage. The Fox Oakland is still open with live shows and looks great these days.
A big thank you CC for showing us these 3D ads. The 3D from 1953/54 was so much better with two projectors going at once. Most of the new 3D movies today were not even shot with two cameras just computer changed from 2D to 3D. Most theatres now just use one projector for 3D not two. Nothing much with current movies with things coming off the screen. At least both of these old 3D two projector films have been restored to brand new 3D BluRay DVD’s. If you have a 3D TV you will love all the 3D effects.
Thanks Ken for the image. Lets hope Regal that is building the brand new UA/Regal Stonestown 11 Theatres in San Francisco puts in some color lights like this new cinema in NYC. Red and blue look great so much better then boring white lights like so many American circuits put in because they have no design team and white lights are cheap.
GD* Looks like fun, lets get a lame USA movie circuit to bring this in but in a bigger auditorium with a larger curved screen and seats. Not just 3 rows, do 20! Do a whole movie with this system. Thanks for the image.
Texas thanks for the photo. The noisy Regal side wall white blocks will bounce so much screen light reflection back into the audience. Who does this kind of wall design for UA/Regal? They must not test out the problems. Please Regal now called Cineworld please stay with a dark solid wall color and keep our eyes focused on the screen light.
Thanks Texas for these colorful inside shots. The only thing that needs to go is the white ceiling. The reflex must be terrible from the light on the screen. Time to paint or replace to black or dark purple ceiling panels.
The new movie opens July 26 2019. A few theatres will be showing ‘Once Upon A Time In Hollywood’ in blow up 70mm film prints and many will be showing It on 35mm film. We will be seeing It at the only Northern CA 70mm print at the Drafthouse New Mission Theatre in San Francisco. The New Beverly Cinema will play a 35mm film print in Los Angeles CA. Lets hope MR Tarantino will obtain a 70mm film projector some day and enlarge the screen a little with a slight curve at the New Beverly. Curtains also please!
Thanks CC for the cool stereophonic ad. I wonder how big the screen was for Shane at ‘Fox Grauman’s Chinese Hollywood’ with a blow lens? A few months later they put in a semi curved 20th Century Fox CinemaScope® screen with 4 track mag stereo sound. I wonder if ‘Shane’ had surround sound or just split speakers on the stage?
If you sit in he last few rows under the booth you will not hear any stereo surround sounds coming from any speakers. There are no separate speakers in the back lower area like at the Seattle Cinerama has.
This former UA/Regal Riverfront Twin Theatre has opened again in downtown Santa Cruz CA now called DNA’s Comedy Lab. They serve beer & wine with some food. They mainly use the right side former movie auditorium. We wish them luck and maybe they can run classic older comedy movies on DCP in the other space on the left side of the large wide lobby on special nights. Time to bring into the Santa Cruz area some new comedy acts and other events. Glad the owners did not gut the inside for something else! Check out the new photos as of July 6 2019.
Thanks DF87**To bad the Syufy family did not keep this great neon marquee when they built a mall on the Drive In lot next to the busy Nimitz freeway. The Syufy’s built a new multiplex many years ago under the Century name now sold to Cinemark Theatres were the old theatre once stood. The classic flashing sign could have saved and used as a center piece for the huge mall that once people came to watch outdoor movies. If you are ever in Niles CA the big antique town near Fremont check out the train depot museum they have a small HO train set up and have a miniature Union City DI Theatre lot and sign with the train going around It. Looks like the real thing!
Just visited again the Cinerama Dome in Hollywood. Same old problem with no lights on when you come into the theatre to find your numbered seat. They have the blue lights turned on so low on the curtains and the lights on the gold ceiling turned way down. The worst is the DCP scope picture. They have masking on the bottom right and left part of the curved screen going up words. I have been to many large curved screens lately and you don’t see this problem on the bottom. I think they can correct this bottom problem by doing a pre test curve alignment to push the curved image down more to fit the corners not loop the image up? They have seemed to have put in these new cheap looking surround speakers that have the grill off that shine the treble cones. The old surround speakers were hidden behind the side wall curtains. Seems the Cinerama Dome had way better base a few years ago. The new 3D scope Disney movie ‘Toy Story 4’ did not have the deep base or was it the speaker set up at the Dome? At least the image looked bright and crisp. Pacific needs to turn up the lights and correct the bottom curve problem. Go check other theatres that have the curve but don’t curve up the bottom corners, see what they are doing to correct the image on the bottom corners. .