{"id":68,"date":"2009-02-04T13:45:08","date_gmt":"2009-02-04T13:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/?p=68"},"modified":"2014-04-19T16:12:28","modified_gmt":"2014-04-19T16:12:28","slug":"forgotten-cinema-century-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/2009\/02\/04\/forgotten-cinema-century-21\/","title":{"rendered":"Forgotten Cinema: Century 21"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Be it the result of\u00a0a theatre’s lackluster later years tainting memories or\u00a0an “out with the old, in with the new” mentality,\u00a0many, formerly popular, cinemas fade from the public’s collective consciousness soon after closing. Then, one finds a theatre, like Anaheim’s Century 21<\/a>, which never managed\u00a0to enter this public\u00a0awareness\u00a0in the first place.<\/div>\n
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Opened in June of 1965, Anaheim’s Century 21\u00a0had all the ingredients for\u00a0a highly successful movie theatre. Featuring a cavernous 1,200 seat auditorium, high end amenities, and an eye catching modern exterior, the Century 21 should have been a\u00a0local movie going hotspot. Even the location, near the five freeway and adjacent to the, then popular, Anaheim Plaza mall,\u00a0pointed towards potential success.\u00a0Yet, the theatre never managed to capture a sizeable audience during it’s\u00a0brief run.<\/div>\n
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Struggling, almost from the onset, the Century 21\u00a0rotated through\u00a0four separate\u00a0chains over the course of it’s fourteen years of operation.\u00a0These chains attempted county exclusive film engagements and, in 1974, the theatre was twinned, to keep pace with the burgeoning multi-screen era. However, the efforts never proved fruitful, as the Century 21 was quietly closed in the Spring of 1979.<\/div>\n
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Shortly after closing, the property was redeveloped in to a set of fast food restaurants and an office complex;\u00a0a Taco Bell, on the corner of Euclid and Glenn Oak,\u00a0is now positioned where the Century 21’s lobby once stood.\u00a0Today, few locals know their neighborhood was formerly the home of a luxurious theatre and even\u00a0lifelong residents\u00a0strain to recall a memory of the Century 21.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00a0 Be it the result of\u00a0a theatre’s lackluster later years tainting memories or\u00a0an “out with the old, in with the new” mentality,\u00a0many, formerly popular, cinemas fade from the public’s collective consciousness soon after closing. Then, one finds a theatre, like Anaheim’s Century 21, which never managed\u00a0to enter this public\u00a0awareness\u00a0in the first place. Opened in June […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-theatre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68","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=68"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1088,"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68\/revisions\/1088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}