{"id":61,"date":"2009-01-24T01:27:53","date_gmt":"2009-01-24T01:27:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/?p=61"},"modified":"2009-02-07T11:16:25","modified_gmt":"2009-02-07T11:16:25","slug":"the-notorious-valuskis-theatre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/2009\/01\/24\/the-notorious-valuskis-theatre\/","title":{"rendered":"The Notorious Valuskis Theatre"},"content":{"rendered":"
Pictured below is\u00a0a 1951 photo of Buena Park’s\u00a0Valuskis Theatre (once known as the Grand); a\u00a0venue with a sorted history that included one of the darkest moments in Orange County cinema.<\/div>\n
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On May 19, 1951, a ten year old girl, Patty Jean Hull, was abducted from the theatre and murdered by a convicted sex offender,\u00a0Henry Ford McCracken. The search for Hull, and eventual murder trial of McCracken,\u00a0would go on to become one of the earliest, nationally\u00a0televised, media circuses, setting the groundwork for future\u00a0national sensations, such as the arrest of Lee Harvey Oswald and O.J. Simpson murder trial.\u00a0While more the result of timing (i.e. television emerging as a popular media form) than any\u00a0shortcoming on the theatre’s part, the murder would prove to be a turning point for the Valuskis.\u00a0<\/div>\n
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The formerly popular Valuskis Theatre\u00a0would never recover from the massive negative publicity and was\u00a0soon forced in to showing\u00a0Spanish language films, with limited success. By the 1970’s, the theatre would turn to pornographic booking\u00a0and became part of the Pussycat Theatre circuit. As an adult cinema, the theatre was the site of frequent vice raids and suffered through a series of well publicized court cases,\u00a0throughout the 70’s; most notably a battle with a local woman, who sued on the basis of being “offended and outraged”, utilizing the California “Red Light Abatement Act”.\u00a0Despite coming out victorious in these cases, with the emergence of home video, and facing stiff competition (no pun intended) from near bye Studio Adultland, the theatre was shuddered in the mid\u00a0 80’s and razed by the 1990’s. Today, a Ford car dealership sits on the Beach Blvd. site.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Pictured below is\u00a0a 1951 photo of Buena Park’s\u00a0Valuskis Theatre (once known as the Grand); a\u00a0venue with a sorted history that included one of the darkest moments in Orange County cinema. . \u00a0 On May 19, 1951, a ten year old girl, Patty Jean Hull, was abducted from the theatre and murdered by a convicted sex […]<\/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-61","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-theatre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61","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=61"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}