{"id":599,"date":"2010-10-03T10:08:12","date_gmt":"2010-10-03T10:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/?p=599"},"modified":"2010-10-03T10:08:12","modified_gmt":"2010-10-03T10:08:12","slug":"a-wasted-patch-of-green","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/2010\/10\/03\/a-wasted-patch-of-green\/","title":{"rendered":"A Wasted Patch of Green"},"content":{"rendered":"

Walking past Costa Mesa’s bustling Orange County Performing Arts Center this evening, I took a shortcut which unintentionally brought me to a site of cinema loss and waste.<\/p>\n

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This grass covered clearing was once a movie going Mecca for Orange County, the South Coast Plaza Theatre<\/a>. Some two decades removed from the “Westwood of Orange County<\/a>” glory days and over a year since the complex was razed, the, now empty, lot’s past is a forgotten footnote for most. The former place of countless cinematic memories and shared experiences relegated to little more than convenient shortcut and office break area.<\/p>\n

I imagine the lot’s vacancy is temporary; merely awaiting a rebound in the real estate market, so yet another glass and steel office tower can be erected. However, I can’t help but reflect on what a waste the demolition was. As healthy business flocks to the neighboring performing arts center, for a live version of “Peter Pan”, or travels a few miles to the sub par Metro Pointe 12, for a screening of “The Social Network”, there just as easily could have been a grand cinema here, offering up it’s own unique experience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Walking past Costa Mesa’s bustling Orange County Performing Arts Center this evening, I took a shortcut which unintentionally brought me to a site of cinema loss and waste. \u00a0 This grass covered clearing was once a movie going Mecca for Orange County, the South Coast Plaza Theatre. Some two decades removed from the “Westwood of […]<\/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-599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-theatre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599","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=599"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":602,"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599\/revisions\/602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}