{"id":376,"date":"2009-11-26T13:00:13","date_gmt":"2009-11-26T13:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/?p=376"},"modified":"2009-11-27T11:53:36","modified_gmt":"2009-11-27T11:53:36","slug":"the-plaza-theatres-celebrity-opening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/2009\/11\/26\/the-plaza-theatres-celebrity-opening\/","title":{"rendered":"The Plaza Theatre&#8217;s Celebrity Opening"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>This week, in 1970, Nation General opened the <a href=\"http:\/\/occinema.com\/2007\/08\/30\/plaza\/#more-97\" target=\"_blank\">South Coast Plaza 2<\/a> (later to become known as the South Coast Plaza 3), to compliment the neighboring <a href=\"http:\/\/occinema.com\/2007\/08\/30\/south-coast-plaza\/\" target=\"_blank\">South Coast Plaza Cinema<\/a>.\u00a0Among the opening week&#8217;s events\u00a0was a charity champagne reception and screening of the John Wayne western &#8220;Rio Lobo&#8221;.\u00a0Being a\u00a0resident of near bye Newport Beach, Mr. Wayne was present to take part in the festivities and those\u00a0purchasing a special $25 ticket\u00a0were afforded the opportunity to sit with the star in\u00a0a VIP &#8220;golden circle&#8221; area (i.e. the bi level auditorium&#8217;s lower half).\u00a0Proceeds from the evening were used to hold an &#8220;American Heritage seminar&#8221; for Orange County teachers.<\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/PlazaBenefitNight.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-379\" style=\"border: black 2px solid;\" title=\"South Coast Plaza 2 Benefit Night\" src=\"http:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/PlazaBenefitNight-300x146.jpg\" alt=\"South Coast Plaza 2 Benefit Night\" width=\"300\" height=\"146\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/PlazaBenefitNight-300x146.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/PlazaBenefitNight-150x73.jpg 150w, https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/PlazaBenefitNight.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>The theatre opened to the general public\u00a0a day later with &#8220;It&#8217;s a Mad Mad Mad Mad World&#8221; and\u00a0the Plaza would serve as one of the\u00a0county&#8217;s finer movie going destinations up until the new millennium. Sadly,\u00a0after sitting\u00a0vacant and forgotten\u00a0for nearly a decade, the theatre was razed\u00a0in\u00a0the spring of 2008, along with the equally notable South Coast Plaza Cinema.\u00a0Today, the site is an empty lot, sitting between a parking structure and bank.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week, in 1970, Nation General opened the South Coast Plaza 2 (later to become known as the South Coast Plaza 3), to compliment the neighboring South Coast Plaza Cinema.\u00a0Among the opening week&#8217;s events\u00a0was a charity champagne reception and screening of the John Wayne western &#8220;Rio Lobo&#8221;.\u00a0Being a\u00a0resident of near bye Newport Beach, Mr. Wayne [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-theatre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=376"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":380,"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376\/revisions\/380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}