{"id":84,"date":"2009-02-23T07:22:58","date_gmt":"2009-02-23T07:22:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/?p=84"},"modified":"2009-02-23T23:12:49","modified_gmt":"2009-02-23T23:12:49","slug":"ten-year-absence-orange-cinedome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/2009\/02\/23\/ten-year-absence-orange-cinedome\/","title":{"rendered":"Ten Year Absence: Orange Cinedome"},"content":{"rendered":"
Just as this February marks the fortieth anniversary of Edwards Big Newport<\/a>, the month\u00a0is also notable for a less celebratory anniversary, the closing of Orange’s Cinedome\u00a0Theatres<\/a>.<\/div>\n
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Opened in the Spring of 1969, as a twin-plex,\u00a0Syufy’s (later to be known as Century Theatres) Cinedome was a highly popular county movie going hub for the better part of thirty years. Originally built\u00a0as two, dome style, 863 seat auditoriums, the\u00a0complex was regularly expanded to meet demands, eventually reaching eleven screens by 1992. Yet, even with the\u00a0annual\u00a0additions and upgrades, the Cinedome was\u00a0always best known for it’s signature dome auditoriums.<\/div>\n
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Featuring 70 mm capability, stadium seating, and the day’s cutting edge audio\/visual technology, the Cinedome was a frequent site for special engagements and county exclusive premieres; existing as one of the county’s more popular destinations for blockbuster films. However, the theatre was also somewhat notorious for sub par customer service, day old popcorn,\u00a0and poor housekeeping, throughout much of it’s run. This dichotomy\u00a0served to form two extremes within county movie going circles; those who loved the Cinedome, for it’s “over the top” experience, and those who hated the venue, for it’s lackluster service.<\/div>\n
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Despite having established a large cult following over the years, the Cinedome eventually fell to “progress” and was one of the county’s early megaplex era casualties. Facing increasing local competition\u00a0and a freeway construction project, the Cinedome finished out it’s final years showing second run faire, before closing in\u00a0February of 1999. The complex was demolished a year later and\u00a0replaced by\u00a0a large condominium development, which now\u00a0stands on the former theatre\u00a0site, beside the I-5 and Chapman.\u00a0<\/div>\n
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Perhaps, a theatre that has taken on more of a mythical quality with county\u00a0cinephiles, through it’s absence, than\u00a0what the venue truly offered in it’s heyday;\u00a0but, a former county theatre that unquestionably\u00a0holds a special place in the memories of countless movie goers.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Just as this February marks the fortieth anniversary of Edwards Big Newport, the month\u00a0is also notable for a less celebratory anniversary, the closing of Orange’s Cinedome\u00a0Theatres. \u00a0 Opened in the Spring of 1969, as a twin-plex,\u00a0Syufy’s (later to be known as Century Theatres) Cinedome was a highly popular county movie going hub for the better […]<\/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-84","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-theatre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84","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=84"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87,"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84\/revisions\/87"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}