The End of an Era

[LogGrad98]

https://www.standard.net/topics/business/2010/10/18/cinedome-demolished-make-way-car-dealership

The familiar domes greeting residents as they entered Riverdale are officially no more.
Demolition of Cinedome 70 took place Monday beginning at 8 a.m. A single backhoe began tearing into one of the theaters and, in just a half hour, nearly half of the dome was destroyed and the former lobby was a pile of rubble.

The first movie I ever saw was in this theater. I saw all 3 original Star Wars movies here. The first time I ever made out with a girl was in this theater. Lots of memories from my youth. Goodbye Cinedome.

 

[YB85]

This actually happened about four months ago, but any thread that memorializes the best movie theater ever is okay with me.

 

[PearlWatson]

The first time I ever made out with a girl was in this theater.

Oh my goodness. I think that was my grandma!

 

[Stickler]

That place was a total dump.

 

[LogGrad98]

Oh my goodness. I think that was my grandma!

Nah this girl didn't taste like poligrip. Uh, not that I would know what poligrip tastes like. Uh. Hey how about them Jazz?

 

[Beantown]

 

[JJ Rage]

Somewhere, there's a picture of me at Fun Dome back in like 1998 or 1999 wearing a purple Karl Malone jersey and a purple Jazz hat, playing Top Skater. And bowling.

And I was wearing jean shorts. Don't judge me, I was like 13. I didn't know any better.

 

[Gameface]

Umm, you mean the 49th Street Galleria, right?

 

[LogGrad98]

Umm, you mean the 49th Street Galleria, right?

It used to be the Galleria. I haven't been there since way back when. It was pretty cool in the 80's when you could play arcade video games for less than a buck.

 

[LogGrad98]

This actually happened about four months ago, but any thread that memorializes the best movie theater ever is okay with me.

I didn't know it was already gone. My wife saw some photos of the demolition on Facebook. We moved about 6 months ago so I missed it.

Star Wars there was just plain awesome. It was a huge screen and the sound was phenomenal even before THX Surround. To me going there a lot in my teens it felt like a serious theater. It was also nearly stadium-style seating before that became de rigeur.

I like the new theaters, but I wish more of this kind of thing could survive. It seems few things are unique anymore.

 

[YB85]

I didn't know it was already gone. My wife saw some photos of the demolition on Facebook. We moved about 6 months ago so I missed it.

Star Wars there was just plain awesome. It was a huge screen and the sound was phenomenal even before THX Surround. To me going there a lot in my teens it felt like a serious theater. It was also nearly stadium-style seating before that became de rigeur.

I like the new theaters, but I wish more of this kind of thing could survive. It seems few things are unique anymore.

From about 1975-1999, the Indiana Jones movies were probably the only blockbusters that I didn't see at the Cinedome, and that's only because they weren't at the Cinedome. As a kid, my summers were spent in Utah with my cousins and going to see Earthquake, The Towering Inferno, Jaws and Star Wars at the Cinedome made those movies even bigger. I liked going there so much that I would drive by all the theaters closer to my house to see a movie at the Cinedome, even when those theaters had that movie. I wish that they could have made it work, but with so much money being paid for screening, it forces the little guys out of the new release business. I rarely go to movies anymore, and that has as much to do with having kids than any other factor, but I think the Cinedome closing its doors plays a bit of a factor, too.

And to reply to Stickler, it probably became a total dump toward the end, but for a long time, it was as clean a theater as was out there. I went to a movie at the theaters in Riverdale and I took a step and my shoe came off and stuck to the ground because the floor was so sticky. The Cinedome had no such problem.