Comments from terrywade

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 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.

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 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 Dallas, did they serve Tiki drinks and Hawaiian Punch?

Thanks Dallas, and to think this was 1951 before CinemaScope® & Cinerama®.

Let’s hope they put in stereo speakers in each car with surround sound in the back seat with a volume control in each car. They will have to clean each classic vehicle every night as people will make a mess with all the refreshment snacks they will spill on the seats and floor. The big screen sounds great and I hope they just don’t put in a big square thing with no scope masking. Put some fans on the trees and make them move.

I can’t believe this once great theatre is just left to rot year after year. I toured this once proud cinema many years ago with the THS group under our past president host Miss Karen Noonan. She cares about the place. It was in way better shape then. You would think some company in town would take It over, do the long needed remodel work and name It after the people that helped pay for the remodel. The project just keeps going in circles. There will be a time soon when It will go past the limit for any salvage work to be done to fix this once proud cinema to be brought back to life for a new generation to enjoy in downtown Auburn NY.

Say goodbye to Regal and get Drafthouse Cinemas to open up.

Thanks Gran for this fine photo. I wish the people that own the Castro Theatre in SF CA (the Nasser Bros) can see this photo and try to get some BLUE lights put in. Everything is dark when they run a movie.

Thanks Rives for this ad. To bad the Camelot did not keep the D-150 curvescreen. They did replace It with a screen that has a slight curve at least. A great cinema to see a movie in the main theatre. The others in the building are very small.