Very nice Brenden cinema with huge curved screens and the proper masking that works in this Modesto CA site. Great neon outside and some of the best sound you will ever find in a theatre. The help was over the top and very well trained and the people cleaning screen #16 before I saw a movie this past weekend came out with their brooms and trash cans and thanked everyone for waiting and hope they enjoy the movie. Just another nice touch you won’t find at other big theatre groups these days. Check It out If you are ever in Modesto along with the State Theatre a few blocks away.
A live Ice show on the Roxy stage along with the Fox 35mm movie Titanic what a great presentation that must have been. Thanks CC for the ad. Just before the giant semi curved CinemaScope® screen was put on the huge stage over the ice for the NYC showing of The Robe.
Lets get them to turn on some Red plus Blue,Green & Orange led bulbs to light up this Hollywood showplace at night. Bring back some color neon also. It is now so dark and dull. You can’t even see the footprints much at night. How nice the only fountain on left would look with Blue water flowing.
One of just a few 70mm Todd-AO curved screen theatres in the mid 50’s in the Los Angeles area. Like so many great movie theatres in Southern CA It has been torn down. Thanks Dallas for the photo.
Just visited this great cinema last weekend. Great photos in the lobby and a nice candy counter. The only thing they need is to replace the white lights that shine down on the semi blue curtain and put in blue bulbs. The neon outside was great.
This old Oakland Ca theatre sat fire damaged for many years before the city of Oakland made UA rip the burned out shell down. I saw my first 3-D film here ‘Inferno’. I new the manager ‘Ed’ who got a call from the fire dept late one night that the place was on fire. Started in the balcony from a cigarette they claimed? When Ed contacted his boss he told him just let the old dump burn! United California Theatres had wanted to get rid of the New Fruitvale Theatre for years. They ran second run B movies and got some first run films that Fox West Coast Theatres and Blumenfield Theatres were afraid to show. It was becoming a rough area at night. My friend ‘Ed’ was beat up a few times in the lobby and the boxoffice was robbed many times. Thanks Granola for the photo.
Thanks Ken for the look at your photo. I wonder If they ran this movie as a roadshow in Todd-AO 70mm. I see no mention on the marquee about 70mm or did they just play in old reg 35mm? Hope they at least had 4 track mag stereo sound at the Tivoli Theatre. Is the cinema still up?
Looks like they covered over the middle back Cinerama® booth and used the upstairs projection booth for 70mm Todd-AO. Hope they kept the curved screen up for all the nuns. They must have all sang and this was way before sing-a-long movies were added. Thanks Dallas M for the photo coverage.
Thanks CC for the ad. Just think 2 years later (1953) the wide screens of CinemaScope® and Cinerama® will be listed playing in the Chicago area! Then in 1955 Todd-AO finds a home in Chicago for the first time. It’s sad as most of these movie theatres have long been torn down.
Thanks RJ. I wrote to them about 5 months ago about adding some color lights inside. Looks like they have started to use some, now lets get some color on the curtains and do the same across the street at the Bruin Theatre that they lease also.
This is a new boxofice made to look like the old one that someone crashed a car into a few years ago. A great place to see a music event in Santa Cruz CA. Great neon marquee.
Thanks Tinsletoe for the photo. At least this movie theatre in Hollywood knows the use of color lights inside, like in the side organ grills and curtains. A few old movie theatres in San Francisco that still show movies have no color lights when they need to have some color bulbs when the movie is on. They know showmanship at The El Capitan Theatre.
R8**It’s just to much like so many multi’s these days they leave all the side lights up during the pre show ads and everything is washed out on the screen. You would think some clever light people would put dimmer bulbs in the first set of lights down front. They have no clue about light leaks on the screen.
Howard thanks for the photo. With the curved curtain track I had thought they had a curved screen but I guess It’s just flat. Did the Paris ever have a semi curved screen?
Great neon marquee. They just had a big night with the movie Purple Rain with a live show also on stage.
It is now called the Century and used for rentals.
Very nice Brenden cinema with huge curved screens and the proper masking that works in this Modesto CA site. Great neon outside and some of the best sound you will ever find in a theatre. The help was over the top and very well trained and the people cleaning screen #16 before I saw a movie this past weekend came out with their brooms and trash cans and thanked everyone for waiting and hope they enjoy the movie. Just another nice touch you won’t find at other big theatre groups these days. Check It out If you are ever in Modesto along with the State Theatre a few blocks away.
Looks like a nice cinema and I like the blue lights above. Thank Granola for the photo. Do the blue lights stay on during a film?
Thanks T. I wonder If the mid waterfall curtain section raised up?
A live Ice show on the Roxy stage along with the Fox 35mm movie Titanic what a great presentation that must have been. Thanks CC for the ad. Just before the giant semi curved CinemaScope® screen was put on the huge stage over the ice for the NYC showing of The Robe.
Lets hope they will bring back the Wurlitzer pipe organ?
Lets get them to turn on some Red plus Blue,Green & Orange led bulbs to light up this Hollywood showplace at night. Bring back some color neon also. It is now so dark and dull. You can’t even see the footprints much at night. How nice the only fountain on left would look with Blue water flowing.
One of just a few 70mm Todd-AO curved screen theatres in the mid 50’s in the Los Angeles area. Like so many great movie theatres in Southern CA It has been torn down. Thanks Dallas for the photo.
Just visited this great cinema last weekend. Great photos in the lobby and a nice candy counter. The only thing they need is to replace the white lights that shine down on the semi blue curtain and put in blue bulbs. The neon outside was great.
This old Oakland Ca theatre sat fire damaged for many years before the city of Oakland made UA rip the burned out shell down. I saw my first 3-D film here ‘Inferno’. I new the manager ‘Ed’ who got a call from the fire dept late one night that the place was on fire. Started in the balcony from a cigarette they claimed? When Ed contacted his boss he told him just let the old dump burn! United California Theatres had wanted to get rid of the New Fruitvale Theatre for years. They ran second run B movies and got some first run films that Fox West Coast Theatres and Blumenfield Theatres were afraid to show. It was becoming a rough area at night. My friend ‘Ed’ was beat up a few times in the lobby and the boxoffice was robbed many times. Thanks Granola for the photo.
Thanks Ken for the look at your photo. I wonder If they ran this movie as a roadshow in Todd-AO 70mm. I see no mention on the marquee about 70mm or did they just play in old reg 35mm? Hope they at least had 4 track mag stereo sound at the Tivoli Theatre. Is the cinema still up?
Looks like they covered over the middle back Cinerama® booth and used the upstairs projection booth for 70mm Todd-AO. Hope they kept the curved screen up for all the nuns. They must have all sang and this was way before sing-a-long movies were added. Thanks Dallas M for the photo coverage.
Thanks CC for the ad. Just think 2 years later (1953) the wide screens of CinemaScope® and Cinerama® will be listed playing in the Chicago area! Then in 1955 Todd-AO finds a home in Chicago for the first time. It’s sad as most of these movie theatres have long been torn down.
Granola**Going to a movie here your neck will hurt after looking so far up at the screen in you sit downstairs.
Thanks RJ. I wrote to them about 5 months ago about adding some color lights inside. Looks like they have started to use some, now lets get some color on the curtains and do the same across the street at the Bruin Theatre that they lease also.
This nice theatre just sits empty today. The city of Huntington Park CA needs to get involved and re open as a entertainment center.
Mr T did this cinema have a curved screen or just a curved curtain track?
Thanks Dallas for the great Todd-AO screen photo.
This is a new boxofice made to look like the old one that someone crashed a car into a few years ago. A great place to see a music event in Santa Cruz CA. Great neon marquee.
Brand new theatre for the Bay Area, lets hope they put in a large Imax screen!
Thanks Tinsletoe for the photo. At least this movie theatre in Hollywood knows the use of color lights inside, like in the side organ grills and curtains. A few old movie theatres in San Francisco that still show movies have no color lights when they need to have some color bulbs when the movie is on. They know showmanship at The El Capitan Theatre.
R8**It’s just to much like so many multi’s these days they leave all the side lights up during the pre show ads and everything is washed out on the screen. You would think some clever light people would put dimmer bulbs in the first set of lights down front. They have no clue about light leaks on the screen.
Howard thanks for the photo. With the curved curtain track I had thought they had a curved screen but I guess It’s just flat. Did the Paris ever have a semi curved screen?
At least the building will not be torn down and used for some other types of events while not movies. I guess all the seats will go.