Pacific's Hastings 8
355 N. Rosemead Boulevard,
Pasadena,
CA
91107
355 N. Rosemead Boulevard,
Pasadena,
CA
91107
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Additional Info
Previously operated by: Pacific Theatres
Architects: Roland Decker Pierson
Previous Names: Hastings Theatre
Phone Numbers:
Box Office:
626.351.0140
Manager:
626.351.0140
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News About This Theater
- Aug 14, 2007 — Hastings 8 in danger
This started as a large, 1,500 seat, single screen house with a big screen and 70mm Dolby stereo presentation, opening on October 2, 1968. I don’t have a lot of facts about it, but it was remodeled in the late-1980’s. Easily the best presentation in the San Gabriel Valley. I saw “The Poseidon Adventure” when it opened in 1972. Also “Close Encounters” in 1977 and “Blade Runner” in 1982. On December 6, 1985 an adjacent building went up housing more screens, and the big auditorium was split in two.
The Pacific Hastings 8 was closed on August 26, 2007.
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Recent comments (view all 87 comments)
I remember a few movies here as a kid, Close Encounters and Time Bandits. And probably many Disney films in the 70s.
Here is a December 1972 ad from the Valley News:
http://tinyurl.com/npacof
The opening film at the Hastings Theatre was “The Graduate”.
I guess the large curved D-150 screen was taken out when they turned the place into a multiplex. To bad they didn’t keep it in the large cinema. How sad now It sits all closed up.
This was featured on the G4 program “Human Wrecking Balls”
Is this indoor theatre the one that replaced Hastings Drive-in?
Expanded to 4 screens on December 6th, 1985. Grand opening ad posted.
I only ever saw two movies here. Robocop 2 and Ghosts of Mars.
At the time the theater closed I made this list of movies I saw there over the years.(I only included movies I saw in the big theater.)
1970s The Wizard of Oz (rerelease in ‘71-'73), Fantasia (rerelease), The Golden Voyage of Sinbad, Paper Moon, Young Frankenstein, Silent Movie, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, California Suite
1980s 9 to 5 (with trailer for Outland), Time Bandits, Blade Runner, Poltergeist, Blue Thunder, Twilight Zone: The Movie (and trailer for Never Say Never Again), Krull, Top Secret, 2010: Odyssey 2, Ladyhawke, Return to Oz, The Black Cauldron, The Color Purple, Santa Claus: The Movie, Poltergeist 2: The Other Side, Song of the South (1986 rerelease), Golden Child, Platoon, Superman IV: The Quest for Peace, Space Balls, Ishtar, Creepshow II, Nothing in Common (Tom Hanks/Jackie Gleason), The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Blind Date, Three Men and a Baby, Good Morning Vietnam, A New Life (Alan Alda/Ann-Margaret), Who Framed Roger Rabbit? High Spirits (I only peaked in on this one), *Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
1990s Dick Tracy/Roller Coaster Rabbit (Roger Rabbit featurette), Reversal of Fortune, Terminator 2, The Rocketeer, Bugsy, Nightmare Before Christmas, Independence Day, Star Wars Episode One: The Phantom Menace
2000s Star Wars Episode Two: Attack of the Clones, Star Trek X: Nemesis, The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, Star Wars Episode Three: Revenge of the Sith
A chronology of Pasadena and the San Gabriel Valley’s 70mm presentation history has recently been published. Hastings is mentioned numerous times.