Petition to save Cinerama Dome

[Oss Rae]

I'm not sure what good it'll do, but I signed it anyway.

www.change.org/p/arclight-save-the-dome?signed=true

My aunt tells me she saw It's a Mad, Mad, Mad World there when it was new. My parents saw 2001: A Space Odyssey there. Here's a (possibly incomplete) list of movies I saw there over the years:

Jesus Christ Superstar, Bugsy Malone(?), Fantasia (1978), The Wiz, The Muppet Movie, Hair, The Black Hole, Saturn 3, Heavy Metal: The Movie, D.O.A., Back to the Future 3, Arachnophobia, Fantasia (1990-ish), Welton Beckett retrospective

[Brian]

Maybe the Cinerama Dome will reopen as a movie theater.  According to this article in Wednesday's Los Angeles Times, it would be very difficult to alter or demolish the structure because it was designated a L.A. Historic-Cultural Monument in 1998, when the ArcLight complex was being planned:

www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2021-04-13/arclight-cinerama-dome-closing

[Oss Rae]

Looks like it's closer to reopening. variety.com/2022/film/news/cinerama-hollywood-liquor-license-1235306558/

[Oss Rae]

Here's another update. Looks like people are working on reopening it, but there's been a delay.

variety.com/2023/film/news/cinerama-dome-reopening-2025-1235815556/?fbclid=IwAR0_sayRAqOxu39SJp1CpKAMXuaQMHRJXvsOCoayaMI2QZ_aMMBEuWqGPu4

The other month, The Vista in Silverlake reopened under the ownership of Quentin Tarantino on the event of its 100-year anniversary. The Egyptian also reopened a few months ago, though it's 100-year anniversary was last year. (One of the early movies to play there was Robin Hood with Douglas Fairbanks.)