The River Hills and Riviera weren't anything baroque to look at from the outside, but they were good, solid screening rooms--generally the best picture and sound in town. Most people credit their biggest blockbuster memories to these houses--this photo circa 1978 is but one example.
The building, at 222 Crocker near Vets Auditorium, was razed in 2003.
(This photo is from the TRHS 1978 Yearbook, which carries no copyright. If there is any objection to running this photo, please email me and I will take it down. )
The building, at 222 Crocker near Vets Auditorium, was razed in 2003.
(This photo is from the TRHS 1978 Yearbook, which carries no copyright. If there is any objection to running this photo, please email me and I will take it down. )
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My brother was an usher there in the 70s. Apart from lots of stories about people fainting during "The Exorcist", he had the pleasure of watching crowd after crowd literally roar with laughter during the fart scene in "Blazing Saddles" (I don't think people had ever seen such a thing in a movie before)...
I worked there in the late 1990's and seeing that place filled to the max during Titanic and the Star Wars re-releases was impressive, normally on a weekday show we would have only 2 people sitting in the massive auditorium. and fixing that 90 ft screen was a pain, it was all little 1 inch strips that ran from floor to ceiling, and nothing creepier then doing the last walk through I swear that place was haunted I miss the good theaters “a little inside info the toilet upstairs in the office would always get plugged up cause we all chain smoked and then we would flush the butts down it”
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