Is the theater where you saw Star Wars still standing ? — Page 5

It’s a cool choice, they have a nice profile that adds to the lines in the composition.

Was going through a can of old tickets we have saved (mostly concerts) and I did stumble on these. Tickets for Star Wars Special Edition and Revenge of the Sith.

Update: The theater I saw Clone Wars at is permanently closing and turning into office space.

Saw this again and checked on Google Maps. It is no longer a theater. Still standing though. The street view has a good picture of it. I can see the side door where someone conned me into letting them in. It was a three screen theater with Mann. I can’t actually remember seeing any of the films there, but I have a clear memory of a Ray Harryhousen double feature (one was Jason and the Argonaughts) and Star Trek: The Motion Picture (I still have the Enterprise cutaway poster bought that night). But I lived in that city when all the OT were originally released. There was only one other theater in town, a single screen Fox theater (it became a community playhouse and still has the Fox sign - beautiful design details common to some older theaters). I remember seeing Battlestar Galactica, Buck Rogers, and the Wilderness Family there. There was also a drive in and I remember noting that my 10th viewing of Star Wars was there as a double feature with Logan’s Run. From my memory or which car we took, it was before July 1978.

I saw the SE in a theater a friend worked at and I think my second viewing of TPM and AOTC was there as well. That is where I saw TROS twice.

It’s funny, a lot of movies I know I saw, but so few have memories of exactly which theater tied to them. Like I know I saw The Black Hole, but no idea where. A few I can even remember down to which screen they were on.

I joined a FB group for my city and I’ve found where all the old theaters were in town. A couple are still standing. One is a parking lot. One old name has been recycled as a art house. The theater where I saw Dune is still standing, but it is a music venue. The only theater that still shows movies from when I was a kid is one my family owned at the time. I’m pretty sure I saw several Disney movies there. None of the rest are theaters any more and one isn’t even standing any more.

The theater that I saw Solo at is still standing. It’s the Waterworks Theater, where my mom waited 4 hours in line to experience a midnight showing of Phantom Menace. The theater where I first saw Clone Wars, The sequel trilogy and Rogue One (South Side Works) permanently closed as mentioned before. I also saw all five Disney-era theatrical features at the Manor Theatre as well, and that theater turns 100 next year.

Grauman’s, the theatre where my maternal grandmother first saw Star Wars (1977) is still standing, but was converted into an IMAX theater.