I think the opening date for this theater is not right.I was in Junior High when this theater opened.Sun Valley Junior High,BTW.It was a really big deal for all the kids in that area.I want to say spring or summer of 1976.It couldnt have been much earlier than that.The idea of not having to wait for a movie to come to one of the big older theaters,like the Magnolia,or the Lankershim or the Cornell(which was just about done by that time) was really something.If you went a little farther out,you could go to the Americana multiplex in Panarama City.
I lived in Sun Valley,a small suburb next to Burbank during my youth,and my first bus trips by myself as a tween and teen were always to the Cornell Theatre.I remember those great double bills(I miss those!)–“Jaws"and "The Great Spider Invasion”,“The Passenger” and “All The Presidents Men"and a hundred more just like them.The floor was always sticky,the ceiling was enormous(was it a dome?I think so….)and the screen looked a mile high.I can trace my lifelong love of movies directly to an overstuffed seat on all those hot summer afternoons.
I think the opening date for this theater is not right.I was in Junior High when this theater opened.Sun Valley Junior High,BTW.It was a really big deal for all the kids in that area.I want to say spring or summer of 1976.It couldnt have been much earlier than that.The idea of not having to wait for a movie to come to one of the big older theaters,like the Magnolia,or the Lankershim or the Cornell(which was just about done by that time) was really something.If you went a little farther out,you could go to the Americana multiplex in Panarama City.
I lived in Sun Valley,a small suburb next to Burbank during my youth,and my first bus trips by myself as a tween and teen were always to the Cornell Theatre.I remember those great double bills(I miss those!)–“Jaws"and "The Great Spider Invasion”,“The Passenger” and “All The Presidents Men"and a hundred more just like them.The floor was always sticky,the ceiling was enormous(was it a dome?I think so….)and the screen looked a mile high.I can trace my lifelong love of movies directly to an overstuffed seat on all those hot summer afternoons.