We walked from a bus on Barham up to the theater…three one-way traffic lanes and NO sidewalk! We had to walk on the dirt incline! My sister and I learned this the hard way. The first year, you had no access if you were a pedestrian. I would always go to late shows on the weekend and I often saw unusual wildlife when returning to my car at 2 am. Parking was normally to the right of the driveway (southeast, where I believe there is now a two-story parking structure with a pedestrian crosswalk). When that area was made inaccessible to cars, the CityWalk seemed to be born. This was removed after a “drive-up box-office armed robbery” that took place one evening about 1990.
When it opened, there was no CityWalk and the drive from Ventura Boulevard ran straight to the door of the theater into a circle drive. I remember Showscan when they started out here in VA, back in …‘83 or so.70mm projected at 60fps and multi channel sound brought to life an almost life like experience that was something to behold. If memory serves me correctly, didn’t this venue, or an adjacent place also have the now defunct Showscan operation? I thought I saw a Showscan poster at a theater next to this one, but it wasn’t showing anything when my friend and I saw JP3. What I recall is that they played the THX trailer, sound trailer, DLP trailer and Technicolor trailer at the very end of the movie after the credits played. This particular auditorium had the requisite crisp colors and bright picture that DP can bring and the movie, itself, was enjoyable. The last time I was saw a movie there was in ‘01 where gasp my friend and I saw Jurassic Park 3, in digital projection. My cousin kept clawing into my arm during the T-Rex stampede that they made impressions! The movie was quite a thrill ride due to, in part, to the digital sound system.
The show was a matinee but if I remember correctly, there was a balcony and yes, the sound was quite loud. My first visit here was way back in ‘93, where my cousin and I saw the first “Jurassic Park” in the then new sound format DTS. As posted above, by Manwithnoname, the auditoriums play rather loudly but I haven’t frequented the place enough to say it is with consistency. I thought I had posted a comment on this venue several years ago and it seems like it has disappeared for some odd reason.
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