Daniel thanks for the photo. Glad to see Regal still has some neon. Lets hope they put some in in their new build in San Francisco at the Stonestown Mall now under construction under UA Stonestown 12. Neon looks so much nicer then LED’s.
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.
Thanks David for another photo find. These must have been the owner of General Theatrical Company and the Garden Theatre manager. The box office lady almost looks like Betty P the burlesque queen! Love all the rare etched glass in this classic ticket booth from the late 1940’s. You won’t find candy type multi junk managers today in a suit & tie nor even tile one sheet movie case poster displays with little neon lights.
Thanks David for this hot photo of the former Fox West Coast Theatres Fox Crest Sacramento. The built out stage took out 8 rows of seats. Now used for stage events and a few movies. Looks like they have pulled the red & blue lights out of the side wall lights and stuck in old white bulbs. The curtain waterfall color lights are not on. At least they still kept the blue effect lights on the ceiling. Hope the lobby coves still has some of the pink neon working. The best part of this downtown Sacramento cinema is the neon on the outside marquee. Some of the best still on the West Coast. Thanks again for posting this image. If anyone is up visiting Sac at night check out the neon If something is playing at the Crest. If you look up on the wall you will see the original Ampex surround wooden box speakers when they ran 4 trk magnetic 35mm film prints in the 1950’s and 60’s. They have Dolby® now for stereo DCP movies but can still show 35mm film I believe. Outside back you can still see the 3 cement cases for the 3 speaker L R C speaker set up.
Thanks Neb for the cool old ad. The studios or Tarintino need to bring back HypnoMagic® on a new movie to hypnotize young people and get them away from watching computer and their cell phones 24/7. Turn them into cinema zombies during parts of the film and send them into a trance when they leave the cinema. I still have the nice one sheet poster over my jukebox that has great movie art that you don’t see these days to pull you into the movie theatre! I saw this movie at the huge Fox Oakland Theatre when I was a kid and remember the spinning disk that sent you into a hypnotic state, fun times missing today! The poor projection people that had to watch this disk in he 35mm print for 2 weeks up in the booth during changeovers. They got a little dizzy.
Thanks Dallas for the photo, must have looked great in color with the fluorescent lights turned on. Theatre owners of today need to put a few of this type of deco glow art in a few of their mega large auditoriums. Bring some class back to the side walls! There must be some creative artist people around today. How nice to see the art glow dim during a film or at least when people are coming in instead of watching boring ads or a blank white screen because the owners are too cheap to fix the curtains. Thanks again.
Thanks Texas I went here many times in my early days with my grandfather. I go by the former spot of the Hayward Motor Movies and have great memories. What a fun place all the outdoor movies were in the 1950’s & 1960’s. Nearby also was the Stadium and Oakland DI Theatres now with a mall.
Strange they put the CINERAMA logo on the ad. Probably just ran in 1 projector 35mm film scope and no curved screen or stereo sound? Some people must have got confused If they saw in in true CINERAMA 3 projector in Detroit in 7 ch stereo.
Thanks Steve. This former now torn down UA 70mm Coronet Theatre in SF had once in the mid 1950’s SF’s first huge Todd-AO curved screen. By the time this photo was taken this is what was left with the masking set for scope and the old Todd-AO screen taken out. At least the large curved curtains still worked almost till they day they closed down. UA was after the money for the lot, not showing movies anymore.
Thanks David I was there for this showing and they put a big net up in the ceiling with some plaster chunks laying in It. The Cerwin Vega speakers shook the place very week. They had them all over the back and sides. Corny movie but the sound was great.
They will be opening their first San Francisco CA Theatre in the closed former AMC 14 Van Ness Theatre. With a opening in 2020 with SF’s first 4D auditorium along with our first EX 3 projector cinema. We look forward to this new CJ CGV movie theatre company coming into the long SF controlled AMC and CineMark/Century theatres that don’t offer any thing new for the locals or tourists to enjoy once inside their cinemas. Good luck on your move up to SF!
I have been told this new South Korean cinema company does very well in the LA area because they offer cinema treats that the local chains don’t bother to offer. It will be fun to see a movie in 4D & EX in the San Francisco CA area in 2020!
A brand new cinema theatre company from Koren chain CJ CGV will take over the former AMC spot on Van Ness in 2020. They will feature SF’s first 4D and EX cinemas plus a giant curved screen any many other special extras that AMC & Century don’t offer in SF. They have two spots in Southern CA at this time. So glad the place will become a movie theatre again.
Thanks David for these great photos. Strange I thought the Palace was the Cinerama Theatre for Cleveland but It shows ‘Ice Station Zebra’ next door at the Loews State?
Thanks James for this classic photo. You can see under the Rivoli name they have a small sign that says A DIMENSION 150 THEATRE. This was not the case when UA took out the nice curved D-150 screen they left this sign up for many months. Now the D-150 screen is gone along with the Rivoli NYC.
Thanks for photo. Nice to see Regal has some class these days with the blue and red LED lights. AMC in SF has taken out their nice blue hall lights at the Metreon Theatre and put in bright white lights. A new UA Regal will be coming into SF CA soon. Lets hope they put in some color in the new space at Stonestown.
Daniel thanks for the photo. Glad to see Regal still has some neon. Lets hope they put some in in their new build in San Francisco at the Stonestown Mall now under construction under UA Stonestown 12. Neon looks so much nicer then LED’s.
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.
I wonder If they showed it in D-150 70mm?
Thanks David for another photo find. These must have been the owner of General Theatrical Company and the Garden Theatre manager. The box office lady almost looks like Betty P the burlesque queen! Love all the rare etched glass in this classic ticket booth from the late 1940’s. You won’t find candy type multi junk managers today in a suit & tie nor even tile one sheet movie case poster displays with little neon lights.
Thanks David for this hot photo of the former Fox West Coast Theatres Fox Crest Sacramento. The built out stage took out 8 rows of seats. Now used for stage events and a few movies. Looks like they have pulled the red & blue lights out of the side wall lights and stuck in old white bulbs. The curtain waterfall color lights are not on. At least they still kept the blue effect lights on the ceiling. Hope the lobby coves still has some of the pink neon working. The best part of this downtown Sacramento cinema is the neon on the outside marquee. Some of the best still on the West Coast. Thanks again for posting this image. If anyone is up visiting Sac at night check out the neon If something is playing at the Crest. If you look up on the wall you will see the original Ampex surround wooden box speakers when they ran 4 trk magnetic 35mm film prints in the 1950’s and 60’s. They have Dolby® now for stereo DCP movies but can still show 35mm film I believe. Outside back you can still see the 3 cement cases for the 3 speaker L R C speaker set up.
Thanks Neb for the cool old ad. The studios or Tarintino need to bring back HypnoMagic® on a new movie to hypnotize young people and get them away from watching computer and their cell phones 24/7. Turn them into cinema zombies during parts of the film and send them into a trance when they leave the cinema. I still have the nice one sheet poster over my jukebox that has great movie art that you don’t see these days to pull you into the movie theatre! I saw this movie at the huge Fox Oakland Theatre when I was a kid and remember the spinning disk that sent you into a hypnotic state, fun times missing today! The poor projection people that had to watch this disk in he 35mm print for 2 weeks up in the booth during changeovers. They got a little dizzy.
Thanks David I wonder If they ever expanded the stage area for a wide CinemaScope® screen in 1953/54?
Thanks KEN to bad they did not put in a nice curved screen.
Thanks Dallas for the photo, must have looked great in color with the fluorescent lights turned on. Theatre owners of today need to put a few of this type of deco glow art in a few of their mega large auditoriums. Bring some class back to the side walls! There must be some creative artist people around today. How nice to see the art glow dim during a film or at least when people are coming in instead of watching boring ads or a blank white screen because the owners are too cheap to fix the curtains. Thanks again.
Thanks Texas I went here many times in my early days with my grandfather. I go by the former spot of the Hayward Motor Movies and have great memories. What a fun place all the outdoor movies were in the 1950’s & 1960’s. Nearby also was the Stadium and Oakland DI Theatres now with a mall.
Strange they put the CINERAMA logo on the ad. Probably just ran in 1 projector 35mm film scope and no curved screen or stereo sound? Some people must have got confused If they saw in in true CINERAMA 3 projector in Detroit in 7 ch stereo.
Thanks Dallas what a nice curved Todd-AO curved screen they had.
Thanks Steve. This former now torn down UA 70mm Coronet Theatre in SF had once in the mid 1950’s SF’s first huge Todd-AO curved screen. By the time this photo was taken this is what was left with the masking set for scope and the old Todd-AO screen taken out. At least the large curved curtains still worked almost till they day they closed down. UA was after the money for the lot, not showing movies anymore.
Thanks Texas I sent this along to my friend Paul the owner.
Thanks David I was there for this showing and they put a big net up in the ceiling with some plaster chunks laying in It. The Cerwin Vega speakers shook the place very week. They had them all over the back and sides. Corny movie but the sound was great.
They will be opening their first San Francisco CA Theatre in the closed former AMC 14 Van Ness Theatre. With a opening in 2020 with SF’s first 4D auditorium along with our first EX 3 projector cinema. We look forward to this new CJ CGV movie theatre company coming into the long SF controlled AMC and CineMark/Century theatres that don’t offer any thing new for the locals or tourists to enjoy once inside their cinemas. Good luck on your move up to SF!
I have been told this new South Korean cinema company does very well in the LA area because they offer cinema treats that the local chains don’t bother to offer. It will be fun to see a movie in 4D & EX in the San Francisco CA area in 2020!
A brand new cinema theatre company from Koren chain CJ CGV will take over the former AMC spot on Van Ness in 2020. They will feature SF’s first 4D and EX cinemas plus a giant curved screen any many other special extras that AMC & Century don’t offer in SF. They have two spots in Southern CA at this time. So glad the place will become a movie theatre again.
I see no mention of CINERAMA in this photo. Did they just pack up and leave?
Thanks David for these great photos. Strange I thought the Palace was the Cinerama Theatre for Cleveland but It shows ‘Ice Station Zebra’ next door at the Loews State?
Thanks James for this classic photo. You can see under the Rivoli name they have a small sign that says A DIMENSION 150 THEATRE. This was not the case when UA took out the nice curved D-150 screen they left this sign up for many months. Now the D-150 screen is gone along with the Rivoli NYC.
Thanks GD for the photo of this former Todd-AO 70mm roadshow house still open. I wonder if anyone has any photos of the inside curved screen?
Thanks for photo. Nice to see Regal has some class these days with the blue and red LED lights. AMC in SF has taken out their nice blue hall lights at the Metreon Theatre and put in bright white lights. A new UA Regal will be coming into SF CA soon. Lets hope they put in some color in the new space at Stonestown.
Thanks David those lights are something else.
Thanks Woody-I can’t believe this cinema is even still open showing porn? Can you imagine what the inside looks like!