I grew up in Torrance and Carson during the 60s and 70s. Went to about a dozen movies at the Carson Twin Cinemas. Mostly B movies. (It was located in Scottsdale Shopping Center, a strip mall of businesses. There was a public library here for awhile. A hardware store who’s owner pestered you the moment you walked in the door. A Try-It Department store, a shoe repair business, and a roasted chicken place.) The movies I can remember seeing there were ‘Bug’, with Bradford Dillman, ‘SSSSSSS’, with Strother Martin, and ‘Return To Macon County’, with Nick Nolte and Don Johnson. I also saw ‘Gone With The Wind’, in it’s 40 year revival run. But the movie that really stands out in my memory is ‘Billy Jack’. 1973 or 1974. Likely the very first ‘art movie’ I saw in any theatre. One other local business near the cinema was a Straw Hat Pizza Parlor. Opened in the mid 70s. Had a PONG machine there! Plus an old timey kinda Trivia Game. What memories from that era .
I grew up in Torrance and Carson during the 60s and 70s. Went to about a dozen movies at the Carson Twin Cinemas. Mostly B movies. (It was located in Scottsdale Shopping Center, a strip mall of businesses. There was a public library here for awhile. A hardware store who’s owner pestered you the moment you walked in the door. A Try-It Department store, a shoe repair business, and a roasted chicken place.) The movies I can remember seeing there were ‘Bug’, with Bradford Dillman, ‘SSSSSSS’, with Strother Martin, and ‘Return To Macon County’, with Nick Nolte and Don Johnson. I also saw ‘Gone With The Wind’, in it’s 40 year revival run. But the movie that really stands out in my memory is ‘Billy Jack’. 1973 or 1974. Likely the very first ‘art movie’ I saw in any theatre. One other local business near the cinema was a Straw Hat Pizza Parlor. Opened in the mid 70s. Had a PONG machine there! Plus an old timey kinda Trivia Game. What memories from that era .