I was so pleased to find the ‘Sombrero" still listed among Phoenix Theaters despite being closed for so many years. It looms large in my coming of age. Just as I got both license and auto I discovered a favorite movie from my past was being screened at this location and I hurried over. Once there I say the monthly movies calendar, and it seemed that just about everything I had loved would be showing at the Sombrero some time soon. It was a time before VCRs, before DVDs, and long before streaming, so there was no hope of seeing Romeo and Juliet again after '71 or '72. And then, suddenly, there it is next week at the Sombrero. I was reunited with 'Straw Dogs’ ‘Brother Sun Sister Moon’ ‘The Point’ and ‘Woodstock’. I can’t name all the marvelous films this theater brought back to me. They changed films about every two days so I was usually there four nights a week, and then they brought in ‘The Rocky Horror Picture Show’ in a midnight showing Fri & Sat and the experience broadened. It was such a great idea I wonder why no one else has done such a thing. I sure do miss it.
Edie McElroy
I was so pleased to find the ‘Sombrero" still listed among Phoenix Theaters despite being closed for so many years. It looms large in my coming of age. Just as I got both license and auto I discovered a favorite movie from my past was being screened at this location and I hurried over. Once there I say the monthly movies calendar, and it seemed that just about everything I had loved would be showing at the Sombrero some time soon. It was a time before VCRs, before DVDs, and long before streaming, so there was no hope of seeing Romeo and Juliet again after '71 or '72. And then, suddenly, there it is next week at the Sombrero. I was reunited with 'Straw Dogs’ ‘Brother Sun Sister Moon’ ‘The Point’ and ‘Woodstock’. I can’t name all the marvelous films this theater brought back to me. They changed films about every two days so I was usually there four nights a week, and then they brought in ‘The Rocky Horror Picture Show’ in a midnight showing Fri & Sat and the experience broadened. It was such a great idea I wonder why no one else has done such a thing. I sure do miss it. Edie McElroy