Century Plaza 10

whitejimrice on August 4, 2022 at 2:35 am

This place held so many great memories growing up in the 80’s. After I graduated High School I got a job there. Management was horrible and working the door ripping tickets was an absolute nightmare because security would let there family members walk through without a ticket. At the time I didn’t want to get fired so I told managment and security didn’t see anyone walk through in which led me to get fired. Am I sad to see the theater get torn down…yes, but the storing of 3 day old popcorn in the back I can see how rats were rampant.

jkonrath on January 13, 2022 at 10:46 am

Went yesterday to take pictures, and it’s been demolished. Green construction fence around it. The main sign is still standing. No idea what’s going in.

Jim_C on June 6, 2018 at 9:48 pm

In a previous comment, somebody wondered what was still inside the closed Century Plaza 10.

In June of 2012, I got a ‘tour’ of the closed theater by the guy who was thinking of turning it into a Bowling Alley and “Entertainment Center”.

He was also considering keeping at least one of the auditoriums for private movie shows for birthday parties, etc.

At that time, on the main floor of the building, most of the interior non-load bearing walls had been demolished or torn down to the steel framework. Nothing remained of the former lobby or concession area. All carpeting and ceiling tiles were gone. There was no electricity in this part of the building, except for strings of bare work lights. Water was turned off except for one, still functioning restroom.

All the auditoriums except for two of the smaller ones had been completely or partly demolished or trashed. There were no seats, although a couple of the auditoriums had piles of seats stacked in the back, and I think I recall the owner telling me he was going to sell them.

Holes had been cut in the screens to remove the speaker systems behind them, and it was obvious that the surround speakers had simply been ripped down from the side walls.

The mezzanine area,where the projection rooms were, was still pretty intact, and had some limited AC power still working. The projection equipment (35mm)and sound equipment had all been ripped out, except for one projection room which served the two surviving auditoriums. I understand one of the demolished auditoriums once had a 70mm projector, but it was long gone in 2012.

I had brought a big ‘platter-reel’ of film with me that day to test the remaining projection equipment, and after I gave the system a check up, we ran a bit of film to evaluate if the remaining equipment was still usable.

The theater never had any digital cinema projectors, which I advised the owner they would almost certainly need to consider installing as film was rapidly being phased out in 2012.

I’m not sure what happened after that. As far as I know, the bowling alley/entertainment complex idea fell through, or at least was on indefinite hold.

Last time I went by there, over a year ago (in 2017) the the building was still there, but looked abandoned.

I am posting a few pictures I took during the 2012 visit.

Scott Neff on September 12, 2012 at 2:03 pm

Way cool. I bet a bowling alley under the domes will be pretty fun.

Scott Neff on February 3, 2012 at 11:56 am

Except the 20-plex is a Century Theatre. Not exactly ironic.

scottfavareille on April 30, 2008 at 2:44 pm

I recall seeing a news story on Channel 7 about 3 years ago about a rat infestation at this theater & it caused patrons to flee during movie showings.