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Richard P. May
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From: Los Angeles, CA
Registered: Jan 2006
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posted 05-10-2010 10:10 AM
A couple of months ago the Los Angeles Historical Film Society gave a tour of the long-closed Fox Theater - Inglewood, CA.
This was a major theater in the Fox West Coast chain, with about 1100 seats. It has been shuttered for around 30 years, as changing economics in the Inglewood area (near L.A. Int'l Airport) no longer support a facility of this sort.
As Jim Cassedy mentioned about the Coronet - San Francisco, it is the victim of water damage, mold, etc. The power is still on, and we were allowed to carefully go thru the main auditorium, but not backstage or any potentially dangerous areas. We were also told to keep the visit short, in order to not breathe mold, and preferably keep our hands off anything.
I got special permission to go up to the projection booth. No lights there, and pitch dark. I had a little LED light on my keychain, which was the sole source of light. There are two Simplex E7s in place, with Peerless Magnarc lamp on one of them. I was told the other lamphouse is somewhere downstairs in storage.
A video of this can be found on You Tube under Insiders Peek #1-Fox, Inglewood.
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Claude S. Ayakawa
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From: Waipahu, Hawaii, USA
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posted 05-10-2010 04:28 PM
The Waipahu Theatre in my hometown was a wonderful movie theatre. Not only was it wonderFul but it was a beautiful house and the building stIll exist and today is THe City of Refuge Church- a house of worship for black people. For twenty eight years, my photography studio was only about a hundred yards away and I used to go here a lot when my friend, the late Yugo Okubo leased the theatre from Consolidated Amusement Company and ran it as a 2nd run house. That was the time I had met fellow Film Tech member, Very Dias who was working for Yogo as a projectionist at the theatre. I remember the night when Vern was very excited when he got a four track mag print of TORA! TORA! TORA! to run. It sounded great in that old theatre.
Other old theatre building that still exists in Honolulu beside the Waipahu is The Cinerama, Waikiki Twins, Hawaii IMAX, Kapiolani (Toho), Queen, Kokusai, Palama and the Kewalo, The only old theatre from the glory days of movies that still exist as a theatre is the Hawaii. It exists today as a performing arts centre and thanks to the wonderful restoration work that was performed on the building, it looks just as gorgeous as it did when it first opened on September 6, 1922. . Beside live shows, the theatre is also still capable of showing movies and has the latest in projection and digital soud equipment. PRINCESS KAIULANI was world premiered there late last year.
-Claude
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