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PeterTrapani commented about Redondo Beach Cinema 3 on Aug 9, 2005 at 11:07 pm

Best place to see midnight movies in the So. Bay in the mid ‘80s, hands down. They played “Rocky Horror” there for years, with lots of wild audience par-ti-ci-pa-tion. They also played “Pink Floyd’s The Wall” there for a while, for all those skinny white dudes sportin’ mullets and peach-fuzz moustaches floating around Torrance at the time.

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PeterTrapani commented about Bijou Theatre on Aug 9, 2005 at 11:00 pm

A guy with some sort of European (French?) accent managed the place in the second half of the ‘80s. I can remember the dude’s voice clearly on the telephone message recordings.

I saw “Henry and June” there in 1990, but it was already kinda going downhill by then. During the movie I felt something wet splash on the back of my neck, and I turned around and yelled at the guy behind me, who freaked out. Only later did I realize that water was dripping from high up on the ceiling, on to the back of my chair. It was an old building.

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PeterTrapani commented about Mann Torrence Promenade 6 on Aug 9, 2005 at 2:18 pm

There was a good comic store there, called the Comic Vendor, which eventually relocated to North Torrance. I recall public chess tables there too, that my dad always said “were where the queers met up.” I also distinctly remember riding a kid’s ride called THE BUSY BEE, which woulda been fun if the bee-antennae hand controls had worked properly.

Definitely, the coolest place to see flicks in the So. Bay in 1982.