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As we enjoy this year’s holiday blockbuster season, with titles like “Avatar” and “Sherlock Holmes”, here is a quick glimpse of some holiday cinema past. .   Were you to be a theatre goer seventy five years ago, you might be heading to Grauman’s Chinese to catch Shirley Temple in “Bright Eyes”. Those seeking more mature […]

A “white Christmas” in Anaheim? Well, about as close as the area has come to having one. .   The photo above was taken on December 8, 1926, when Northern Orange County was hit by an ultra rare “snowstorm”. Amid this “winter wonderland” is the Fox Anaheim (then known as the California Theatre), which was located on West Central Street (present day Lincoln […]

Today’s picture is of the concession stand at Newport Beach’s Lido Theatre, circa 1960.   Opened in October of 1939, the Lido has managed to stay in near continuous operation for seventy years (a near miracle in Orange County) and stands as one of the county’s only remaining “golden era” cinemas. Fortunately, the Lido has […]