Gonna try this comment again…I think I used a forbidden word the first time and am not sure why they second try didn’t post.
Anyway: There was a period, I think during the summer of 1976 but am not sure, where the Cinema 150/Crestview ran nothing but rock movies: Pink Floyd at Pompeii, Yessongs, The Song Remains the Same (all in 4-track mag) and many others.
During that period I was able to talk the projectionist a few times (they were still doing 2000' changeovers) and he said that 70mm was considered when the place was built but for whatever reason they ultimately didn’t go for it, so they weren’t technically a D-150 house. They did have Ampex 4-track mag, though. Aside from the rock era, I can remember it being used for a re-release of 2001.
Many years later after I had moved to Santa Rosa, I went to the Corte Madera Cinema and had a jarring time travel moment as the place was exactly the same as the Cinema 150, though my understanding is that the Corta Madera did have 70mm.
I was just by the old site yesterday and I think it’s safe to say that the status is demolished, not just closed.
Gonna try this comment again…I think I used a forbidden word the first time and am not sure why they second try didn’t post.
Anyway: There was a period, I think during the summer of 1976 but am not sure, where the Cinema 150/Crestview ran nothing but rock movies: Pink Floyd at Pompeii, Yessongs, The Song Remains the Same (all in 4-track mag) and many others.
During that period I was able to talk the projectionist a few times (they were still doing 2000' changeovers) and he said that 70mm was considered when the place was built but for whatever reason they ultimately didn’t go for it, so they weren’t technically a D-150 house. They did have Ampex 4-track mag, though. Aside from the rock era, I can remember it being used for a re-release of 2001.
Many years later after I had moved to Santa Rosa, I went to the Corte Madera Cinema and had a jarring time travel moment as the place was exactly the same as the Cinema 150, though my understanding is that the Corta Madera did have 70mm.
I was just by the old site yesterday and I think it’s safe to say that the status is demolished, not just closed.
Man, I just don’t remember this theater going the “adult” route at all. And it was more or less my neighborhood theater at the time.