Tropicana Cinemas

I was the original film projectionist for this theatre/multiplex. The above ad is/was accurate on what we showed the first week or 2. Theatre 1 was the James Dean double bill (also shown - a reel of Dean’s screen tests), theatre 2 was “Remo Williams” (a print “move over” from the Huntridge), theatre 3 (“The Big House”, which was also able to show/run movies in the old 70mm format) was “Target”, theatre 4 was “Howling II” (originally advertised as “Unrated, but NO ONE under 18 admitted!” - it eventually got an ‘R’ rating), theatre 5 was “That Was Then, This Is Now”, and theatre 6 (The DINKY house) was “The Ninth Configuration”. Trivia: Right before that X-mas, we ran a 70mm print of “Amadeus”. HOWEVER, because the film played for weeks on end, earlier that year, at the Mountain View 3, the 70mm engagement here pretty much ended after 4 days. Apparently, the only other feature to be shown here in the 70mm format was “Lawrence Of Arabia”, a few years later, but by that particular time, I was long gone.