{"id":759,"date":"2011-04-27T05:54:14","date_gmt":"2011-04-27T05:54:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/?p=759"},"modified":"2011-04-27T05:54:14","modified_gmt":"2011-04-27T05:54:14","slug":"the-surf-cinema","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/2011\/04\/27\/the-surf-cinema\/","title":{"rendered":"The Surf Cinema"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/SurfTheatre.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s picture is of <a href=\"http:\/\/occinema.com\/2007\/08\/30\/surf-cinema\/\" target=\"_blank\">Huntington Beach&#8217;s Surf Cinema <\/a>(circa early 70&#8217;s). Opened as Scott&#8217;s Theatre, in 1925, the venue was later renamed the Roxie and settled in to it&#8217;s most recognizable incarnation, the Surf, on June 5, 1941.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/SurfTheatre.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-760 aligncenter\" style=\"border: black 2px solid;\" title=\"Surf Theatre\" src=\"http:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/SurfTheatre-300x212.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"212\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/SurfTheatre-300x212.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/SurfTheatre-150x106.jpg 150w, https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/SurfTheatre.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Owned by a revolving door of notable Orange County cinema operators, including Santa Ana&#8217;s Walker family, the theatre became a local hotspot during the 60&#8217;s and early 70&#8217;s, specializing in youth oriented independent films (surf and ski titles being the most popular).\u00a0For a time, the Surf was ground zero\u00a0in the Surf City U.S.A. &#8220;hipster&#8221; scene. However, by the 80&#8217;s, the Surf had fallen on hard times and closed in a state of extreme disrepair. Unable to procure a new operator, who was willing to invest in a much needed refurbishment, the theatre was razed in late 1986. The site of\u00a0Huntington Beach&#8217;s\u00a0former cinema hub is now a city run parking lot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s picture is of Huntington Beach&#8217;s Surf Cinema (circa early 70&#8217;s). Opened as Scott&#8217;s Theatre, in 1925, the venue was later renamed the Roxie and settled in to it&#8217;s most recognizable incarnation, the Surf, on June 5, 1941. Owned by a revolving door of notable Orange County cinema operators, including Santa Ana&#8217;s Walker family, the [&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-759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-theatre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759","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=759"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":762,"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759\/revisions\/762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}