Thanks Steve for the photo. When I was very young I went here to see a movie in 4 track mag stereo surround sound on 35mm film. It was a Fox West Coast Theatres house. The color inside was something else. To bad they tore the whole cinema down many years ago. Almost looks like the inside of the Laurel Theatre.
Galaxy Theatres has their own huge curved screen It’s called DFX along with the Dolby Atmos® sound system in a few auditoriums. They will not have the old XD Century/Cinemark branded screen at this new remodeled location in Sparks. I hope they can really curve the screen in the large cinema space re name It GALAXYVISION !
Great news that this once huge movie theatre will open again. Lets hope they put in some nice curtains that go up and sideways. No red please go with a nice blue,turquoise or green. Also I hope they put in some color LED lights not just boring white lights to lite up the decor.
Good news the Galaxy Theatre owners have signed a long term lease on this closed cinema in Sparks NV across from the Nugget Casino. They have one popular cinema now open in another part of Sparks this will give them 2 places to see first run movies in Sparks. A complete remodel is now going on with large curved screens with new seats ect. They hope to open around Dec 2017. If you have ever been to a Galaxy Theatre you know they do a great job both with picture and stereo surround sound. They show a Dolby® sound demo to show off their sound system before the movie starts. The staff is first rate, they are bringing showmanship back a little at a time. With their blue lights in one of their large auditoriums and a personal live person intro by Ken and others before the movie starts this now closed cinema will be a luxury space to see films around the Reno/Sparks Nevada area soon. Lets hope they can bring in more color LED lights or neon in the lobby and inside the refurbished cinemas. I am also hoping for a set of waterfall curtains in the largest auditorium? Watch for a new large neon sign coming soon out front. With all the new apartments and condos just in the same block this new movie multi palace will be a gold mine for people wanting to see films and other local live special events.
Thanks Granola for the color photo. It’s time for someone to lease or buy this fine old cinema, knock down and take out the wall in the middle and turn the theatre into a movie or live music event space for the people of the Berkeley area. It just sits empty year after year. Someone is loosing money. Get some remodel grants and open up the doors again.
Thanks David for all your great photos from Davenport. These theatres in the 50’s & 60’s new how to advertise with glass poster cases lite up with side lights to show off the one sheets and stills. You don’t see this any more in the multi junk. No more National Screen Service.
Thanks Steve for another classic photo. Just to think you got 3 big B movies and cartoons at the old Pix Theatre. The building is still there. I don’t see any beggars on the street then. Time to open up the Pix again now that Radio Shack is gone. I wonder if some neon company can copy the old neon marquee of the Pix from these classic old photos.
CC thanks for the great ad. I think It was 1954. So nice to see the Chinese Theatre Hollywood giving a plug in the Fox ad to the new 4 track mag stereo system they had plus CinemaScope® The surround sound must have sounded great here in the early 50’s with the many small box type speakers hung on the side walls.
Thanks Steve for this classic photo. The Pix Theatre building is still on Market St next to the Powel Bart station. It has two retail stores now that the Pix showed films in. I remember It had a Perry turn thing to let you in once you paid the kind lady at the small boxoffice. No live ticket taker. Many years ago the then manager of the Radio Shack store was changing some ceiling lights and he showed me what was the ceiling of the Pix above the false covering. They showed second run B movies like the Hub Theatre down the street. Many of these small cinema buildings are still around in SF but no longer showing movies If you look up the address they are now store fronts.
Nice remodel. Do the girl ushers have to wear wooden shoes? Do the windmills turn during a movie or music performance? I hope they have some color lights in the houses.
Thanks CC for the classic NYC Todd-AO photo. If only some of our theatres today had a nice sized curved screen with curtains in place, but most cinema screens are getting smaller and the seats bigger. This was such a great theatre to see 70mm in plus later on they installed D-150. Now only the photos tell the Todd-AO showmanship story.
Thanks CC for the ad. Something you won’t see this coming Easter is a live stage show with orchestra and a 35mm film movie. I was so lucky as a young kid to see the whole Radio City production. It was even a 70mm film I think with a stage production.
Thanks again Dallas for this fine old marquee photo from the past. You won’t find anything like this going on these days much less climb a ladder to change marquee letters. They would not do any publicity or showmanship to hang pineapples on a marquee as they would be afraid of a law suit in case the fruit fell in the wind and hit someone on the head.
Let’s hope this is a go as this once fine theatre has sent empty way to long. Time to bring in new LED color lights to light up the inside with a variety of colors not just white bulbs and a nice large Blue/Teal curtain for the stage.
It is so sad this once grand Huntridge Theatre just sits closed and empty all these years in the LV heat and dust. The gambling/hotel resort gang needs to buy It fix It up as a big tourist place and show the movies Viva Las Vegas plus Oceans 11 and all the other movies shot in Las Vegas 24/7. Show on a giant screen with slot machines mixed with seats with a blue light glow. Bring in a Elvis impersonator on the weekends. The place will come alive again with tourists looking to do something nostalgia and different.
Thanks Dallas for the photo. Must have looked great when in the late 50’s they had a large Todd-AO curved screen at the Fox Carthay Circle Theatre. I wonder If the screen came off the stage with side curtains or did they just put the curved frame on the stage? The LA area at one time had 3 70mm curved Todd-AO theatres going. The Egyptian, UA Downtown and the Carthay.
Thanks Predator for the nice photo. Let’s hope some one will put in some red or blue lights on the great curtain and some green or turquoise LED lights behind the grills.
Thanks for sharing this Cinerama photo from NYC. Must have been quite a night to see this huge curved screen open up with the multi ch stereo sound to go with It. You can now see the films in your home on a Smile Box curved Blue Ray format. I’ll still take one of the many old Cinerama Theatres in the world to watch these great 3 projector films that came out in the 50’s and early 60’s. Watching the opening of the giant pink curtains were the price of admission! Thanks again Dallas.
Thanks Gran for this fine photo. Must have looked great in color, maybe dark blue curtain stage lights and the plants on the side with green lights. Most of the cinemas today even If they have curtains left don’t even light them from the bottom. No showmanship left in the USA.
Thanks Steve for the photo. When I was very young I went here to see a movie in 4 track mag stereo surround sound on 35mm film. It was a Fox West Coast Theatres house. The color inside was something else. To bad they tore the whole cinema down many years ago. Almost looks like the inside of the Laurel Theatre.
Galaxy Theatres has their own huge curved screen It’s called DFX along with the Dolby Atmos® sound system in a few auditoriums. They will not have the old XD Century/Cinemark branded screen at this new remodeled location in Sparks. I hope they can really curve the screen in the large cinema space re name It GALAXYVISION !
Great news that this once huge movie theatre will open again. Lets hope they put in some nice curtains that go up and sideways. No red please go with a nice blue,turquoise or green. Also I hope they put in some color LED lights not just boring white lights to lite up the decor.
Good news the Galaxy Theatre owners have signed a long term lease on this closed cinema in Sparks NV across from the Nugget Casino. They have one popular cinema now open in another part of Sparks this will give them 2 places to see first run movies in Sparks. A complete remodel is now going on with large curved screens with new seats ect. They hope to open around Dec 2017. If you have ever been to a Galaxy Theatre you know they do a great job both with picture and stereo surround sound. They show a Dolby® sound demo to show off their sound system before the movie starts. The staff is first rate, they are bringing showmanship back a little at a time. With their blue lights in one of their large auditoriums and a personal live person intro by Ken and others before the movie starts this now closed cinema will be a luxury space to see films around the Reno/Sparks Nevada area soon. Lets hope they can bring in more color LED lights or neon in the lobby and inside the refurbished cinemas. I am also hoping for a set of waterfall curtains in the largest auditorium? Watch for a new large neon sign coming soon out front. With all the new apartments and condos just in the same block this new movie multi palace will be a gold mine for people wanting to see films and other local live special events.
Thanks Granola for the color photo. It’s time for someone to lease or buy this fine old cinema, knock down and take out the wall in the middle and turn the theatre into a movie or live music event space for the people of the Berkeley area. It just sits empty year after year. Someone is loosing money. Get some remodel grants and open up the doors again.
Thanks David for all your great photos from Davenport. These theatres in the 50’s & 60’s new how to advertise with glass poster cases lite up with side lights to show off the one sheets and stills. You don’t see this any more in the multi junk. No more National Screen Service.
Some movie theatre chain needs to re open this classic theatre and run movies and live events. Thanks Granola for the photo.
Hope they have a working AC unit as this type of theatre buildings get very hot.
Thanks Steve for another classic photo. Just to think you got 3 big B movies and cartoons at the old Pix Theatre. The building is still there. I don’t see any beggars on the street then. Time to open up the Pix again now that Radio Shack is gone. I wonder if some neon company can copy the old neon marquee of the Pix from these classic old photos.
Torn down for a parking lot many years ago. Thanks Steve for the photo.
CC thanks for the great ad. I think It was 1954. So nice to see the Chinese Theatre Hollywood giving a plug in the Fox ad to the new 4 track mag stereo system they had plus CinemaScope® The surround sound must have sounded great here in the early 50’s with the many small box type speakers hung on the side walls.
Thanks Steve for this classic photo. The Pix Theatre building is still on Market St next to the Powel Bart station. It has two retail stores now that the Pix showed films in. I remember It had a Perry turn thing to let you in once you paid the kind lady at the small boxoffice. No live ticket taker. Many years ago the then manager of the Radio Shack store was changing some ceiling lights and he showed me what was the ceiling of the Pix above the false covering. They showed second run B movies like the Hub Theatre down the street. Many of these small cinema buildings are still around in SF but no longer showing movies If you look up the address they are now store fronts.
To bad they don’t advertise what is playing on the marquee with plastic letters, just a big plug for the seats and just one XD screen.
Nice remodel. Do the girl ushers have to wear wooden shoes? Do the windmills turn during a movie or music performance? I hope they have some color lights in the houses.
Thanks CC for the classic NYC Todd-AO photo. If only some of our theatres today had a nice sized curved screen with curtains in place, but most cinema screens are getting smaller and the seats bigger. This was such a great theatre to see 70mm in plus later on they installed D-150. Now only the photos tell the Todd-AO showmanship story.
Thanks CC for the ad. Something you won’t see this coming Easter is a live stage show with orchestra and a 35mm film movie. I was so lucky as a young kid to see the whole Radio City production. It was even a 70mm film I think with a stage production.
Thanks again Dallas for this fine old marquee photo from the past. You won’t find anything like this going on these days much less climb a ladder to change marquee letters. They would not do any publicity or showmanship to hang pineapples on a marquee as they would be afraid of a law suit in case the fruit fell in the wind and hit someone on the head.
Let’s hope this is a go as this once fine theatre has sent empty way to long. Time to bring in new LED color lights to light up the inside with a variety of colors not just white bulbs and a nice large Blue/Teal curtain for the stage.
Thanks so much Dallas for showing us the Todd-AO curved screen at the Fox Carthay Circle in Los Angeles.
It is so sad this once grand Huntridge Theatre just sits closed and empty all these years in the LV heat and dust. The gambling/hotel resort gang needs to buy It fix It up as a big tourist place and show the movies Viva Las Vegas plus Oceans 11 and all the other movies shot in Las Vegas 24/7. Show on a giant screen with slot machines mixed with seats with a blue light glow. Bring in a Elvis impersonator on the weekends. The place will come alive again with tourists looking to do something nostalgia and different.
Thanks Dallas for the photo. Must have looked great when in the late 50’s they had a large Todd-AO curved screen at the Fox Carthay Circle Theatre. I wonder If the screen came off the stage with side curtains or did they just put the curved frame on the stage? The LA area at one time had 3 70mm curved Todd-AO theatres going. The Egyptian, UA Downtown and the Carthay.
Thanks Predator for the nice photo. Let’s hope some one will put in some red or blue lights on the great curtain and some green or turquoise LED lights behind the grills.
Thanks for sharing this Cinerama photo from NYC. Must have been quite a night to see this huge curved screen open up with the multi ch stereo sound to go with It. You can now see the films in your home on a Smile Box curved Blue Ray format. I’ll still take one of the many old Cinerama Theatres in the world to watch these great 3 projector films that came out in the 50’s and early 60’s. Watching the opening of the giant pink curtains were the price of admission! Thanks again Dallas.
Thanks Dallas, did they serve Tiki drinks and Hawaiian Punch?
Thanks Gran for this fine photo. Must have looked great in color, maybe dark blue curtain stage lights and the plants on the side with green lights. Most of the cinemas today even If they have curtains left don’t even light them from the bottom. No showmanship left in the USA.