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The Cerrito Theater (colloquially known as The Cerrito, and currently operating as Rialto Cinemas Cerrito) is a historic movie theater located in El Cerrito, California. [1] [2] The theater hosts a mixture of first-run films, old classics, B movies, film festivals, telecasts, and community fundraisers.
[8] Rialto Cinemas, which operates several other historic theaters in the Bay Area, was chosen over six other bidders. The reopened theater follows a format similar to that of the Speakeasy Theaters, including the eclectic array of movies and the sale of beer and wine, but is "a bit more family oriented."
Rialto Theater (Los Angeles), part of the historic Broadway Theater District; Rialto Cinemas, three California movie theaters in Berkeley, El Cerrito, and Sebastopol; Rialto Theatre (South Pasadena, California), listed on the NRHP in California
Landmark Theatre Corporation began as Parallax Theatres and was founded in 1974 by Kim Jorgensen with the opening of the Nuart Theatre in Los Angeles, the Sherman in Sherman Oaks, the Rialto in South Pasadena, and the Ken in San Diego. Steve Gilula and Gary Meyer became partners in 1976, as the chain expanded as Landmark.
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The Rialto was designed in 1925 by Lewis Arthur Smith, who designed the Vista Theater. [4] The Rialto's architectural style was described in The Los Angeles Times as "an odd mashup of Spanish Baroque and Egyptian kitsch." [3] The theater has an orchestra pit and its original design featured balcony seating along both sides of a deep stage. [5]
Built on 125 acres (0.51 km 2) of former dairy farms, the future site of the Cerritos Towne Center was one of the last remnants of the city of Cerritos' agricultural past. . The area, formally known as "Area Development Plan 2", bounded by State Route 91 to the north, Shoemaker Avenue to the east, 183rd Street to the south and Bloomfield Avenue to the west, was nicknamed "the Golden Triangle ...
Cerritos (/ s ə ˈ r iː t oʊ z /; Spanish for "Little hills") is a city in Los Angeles County, California, United States, and is one of several cities that constitute the Gateway Cities of southeast Los Angeles County.