{"id":874,"date":"2012-02-01T12:11:27","date_gmt":"2012-02-01T12:11:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/?p=874"},"modified":"2012-02-01T12:15:54","modified_gmt":"2012-02-01T12:15:54","slug":"103-years-ago-the-temple-theatre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/2012\/02\/01\/103-years-ago-the-temple-theatre\/","title":{"rendered":"103 Years Ago: The Temple Theatre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today marks the 103<sup>rd<\/sup> anniversary of the <a href=\"http:\/\/occinema.com\/2007\/08\/31\/temple-theatre\/\" target=\"_blank\">Temple Theatre<\/a>. Opened on February 1, 1909, at a cost of a then whopping $15,000, the theatre was among the first cinemas to operate in Orange County. The first county cinema title belongs to either the <a href=\"http:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/2009\/02\/14\/orange-countys-first-film-screening\/\" target=\"_blank\">\u201copera house\u201d of the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> Spurgeon Building<\/a> or the <a href=\"http:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/2009\/01\/17\/the-first\/\" target=\"_blank\">Santa Ana Electric Theatre<\/a>, depending on how one chooses to define cinema. Yet, no matter which location truly deserves the founding moniker, the Temple unquestionably pioneered and popularized the concept of movie going in Orange County.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/TempleTheatreOpeningAdvertisement.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-875 aligncenter\" style=\"border: 2px solid black;\" title=\"Temple Theatre Grand Opening Advertisement\" src=\"http:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/TempleTheatreOpeningAdvertisement-290x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"290\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/TempleTheatreOpeningAdvertisement-290x300.jpg 290w, https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/TempleTheatreOpeningAdvertisement-145x150.jpg 145w, https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/TempleTheatreOpeningAdvertisement.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 290px) 100vw, 290px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A bit of trivia on the Temple Theatre: the venue&#8217;s first manager, A.M. &#8220;Doc&#8221; Roberts, formerly ran the county&#8217;s &#8220;first&#8221; cinema, the Santa Ana Electric Theatre.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today marks the 103rd anniversary of the Temple Theatre. Opened on February 1, 1909, at a cost of a then whopping $15,000, the theatre was among the first cinemas to operate in Orange County. The first county cinema title belongs to either the \u201copera house\u201d of the 2nd Spurgeon Building or the Santa Ana Electric [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-theatre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874","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=874"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":878,"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874\/revisions\/878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}