{"id":443,"date":"2010-04-06T10:30:47","date_gmt":"2010-04-06T10:30:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/?p=443"},"modified":"2010-04-06T10:30:47","modified_gmt":"2010-04-06T10:30:47","slug":"a-highly-visible-piece-of-forgotten-cinema","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/2010\/04\/06\/a-highly-visible-piece-of-forgotten-cinema\/","title":{"rendered":"A Highly Visible Piece of Forgotten Cinema"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>When a cinema closes, there is rarely an official effort made to preserve anything\u00a0that doesn&#8217;t have a resale value. In recent decades, departing operators have even made a habit of damaging facilities and fixtures, to hinder any future use by competition. However, the former Edwards <a href=\"http:\/\/occinema.com\/2007\/08\/30\/huntington-twin\/\" target=\"_blank\">Huntington Cinema <\/a>stands as a rare example of an operator thinking outside their bottom line (all be it through some prompting by\u00a0an outside party).\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>The Huntington Cinema opened as Edwards&#8217; second\u00a0Orange County location, on Christmas Day,\u00a01964, and managed to last up to the megaplex era. Having served Huntington Beach for\u00a0thirty four years, the theatre&#8217;s bright orange &#8220;Huntington&#8221; sign\u00a0became somewhat of a local landmark by the time the venue closed, in April of 1998. While the building was quickly gutted for retail use, nearby Huntington Beach High School thought there might be a second life in store for the well known exterior sign. After approaching the Edwards family, the school&#8217;s media department director, John Colby, managed to procure a donation and the sign was installed on campus in the summer of 1998.<\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/HuntingtonSiggn.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-444\" style=\"border: black 2px solid;\" title=\"Huntington Sign Present Day\" src=\"http:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/HuntingtonSiggn-300x173.jpg\" alt=\"Huntington Sign Present Day\" width=\"300\" height=\"173\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/HuntingtonSiggn-300x173.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/HuntingtonSiggn-150x86.jpg 150w, https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/HuntingtonSiggn.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>While present day students are likely oblivious to the sign&#8217;s origins and locals now associate it more with the school than any cinema past, the Huntington sign\u00a0lives on. \u00a0\u00a0<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When a cinema closes, there is rarely an official effort made to preserve anything\u00a0that doesn&#8217;t have a resale value. In recent decades, departing operators have even made a habit of damaging facilities and fixtures, to hinder any future use by competition. However, the former Edwards Huntington Cinema stands as a rare example of an operator [&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-443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-theatre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443","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=443"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":445,"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443\/revisions\/445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}