Showcase Cinema I & II
136 Stonewood Street,
Downey,
CA
90241
136 Stonewood Street,
Downey,
CA
90241
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Previously operated by: Robert L. Lippert Theatres Inc.
Functions: Retail
Previous Names: Showcase Cinema
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This opened as a single screen theatre in the Stonewood Shopping Center. It was a real nice little theatre to see a show. It was opened on April 16, 1969 with Jack Lemmon in “The Odd Couple” & Mia Farrow in “Rosemary’s Baby”. It was twinned in 1971 and operated into the 1980’s. There was a Farrel’s Ice Creame right next door. It is now used as a fabric store.
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Bob, I would like to see the pictures of old stonewood.
Hey Bob,
If you are around you can contact me at www.downeyhistoricalsociety.org
Bob, I have pictures of old Stonewood posted at flickr.com search Downey, California
Bob, do you know what year Mervyn’s opened in Stonewood Mall? We were talking about movies and such but cannot agree on when Mervyn’s opened. It was so many years ago. I worked at the Broadway for a while. My friend says it has only been there 10 years but I remember going there when I was a kid with my mom so I think my friend is waaay off—or I’m really a third of my age! If you have this info, please let me know. Thanks a bunch!
When the Meralta on Downey Avenue closed in 1978,This place became the place to see Disney releases old and new.
I saw “Tommy” here in 1976.
This was not my local theater, but it was where the movie was so my mother took me and dropped me off..
The Showcase Cinema opened with “The Odd Couple” and “Rosemary’s Baby” on April 16th, 1969. Grand opening ad posted.
A history of Stonewood Center says that this house opened as the single-screen Showcase Cinema for Robert L. Lippert’s Transcontinental Theatres. It was twinned in 1971.
When did this theater closed?
They appear to have fulfilled a 20-year leasing contract closing on September 14, 1989 with “The Abyss” and “Uncle Buck.” (From December 4, 1987 to September 13, 1989, it used “Stonewood Cinema 1 & 2” as an alternate name likely to differentiate it from another Showcase-named venue. But retaining Showcase is proper here, especially since in a legal notice in 1988 lists the location as the Showcase Cinema in a transfer of four locations from Jannopoulos Theatres run by James and Mary Lou Jannopoulos to Edwards Cinemas Corp. Circuit.)