“Bumbling with laughter, Buzzing with fun.” (except for the part where Bambi’s mom gets shot and killed, right?)
Who used to watch movies at the Sunvalley Cinema? The Sunvalley Cinema actually had ash trays on each seat inside the theater.
This advertisement for Bambi, which was showing at the Cinema, was placed in a local paper in 1975.
$1.25 for a movie….those were the days!
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Remember seeing Swiss Family Robinson there, still a favorite!
For all of you dog walkers out there, “Where Bambi goes nothing grows”.
It must’ve been a pretty inexpensive way to enjoy your afternoon…
I’ve heard it said “Bambi was the best bang for under a buck”.
Go to your room!
Rocky Horror Picture Show on the weekends!
I was a teen then, LOL.
After the Movies there, we’d cruise chicks at the Ice rink…
Back in the early 70s our elementary school used to sell Saturday passes for this movie theater. I remember seeing the shaggy DA, the worlds greatest athlete, Herbie the love bug. All those cheesy old movies. Good times back then!
I love it! Such great memories. I loved seeing those movies there.
I saw movies there in the 60s when I was a kid. Then in the early to mid-70s when I was a teen, I would take my three cousins (who were younger than me) to the movies. I’m pretty sure I saw Bambi in 1975 with them. So nice that your folks could shop while the kids went to the movies all in the same shopping center! Those were the days!!!!
This of course was the re-release (pre home video), Disney would cycle through their classics so they came back every few years as new kids were turning 5-8 …
1975 was a big year for the kids-only Disney of yore:
One of Our Dinosaurs is Missing
The Strongest Man in the World (Kurt Russell! Joe Flynn!)
The Apple Dumpling Gang (Don Knotts! Tim Conway!)
& Escape to Witch Mountain …
I can still hum the Syufy jingle they’d play before each film. THe best part was loading up on sweets at the candy kiosk out in front.
Then as we got older, the Midnight Movies series was the hippest place in town. I saw Song Remains the Same for the first time there…
Yes! Here’s the jingle that played before every show: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOO3OvwfS4U
I also saw The Song Remains the Same there for the first (of multiple) times. That was the beginning of my devotion to Zeppelin.
I saw Bambi when I was four in 1943. I didn’t like the movie because all I got out it was Bambi got lost.
Remember going to midnight movies there on the weekends in the 80s Rocky Horror on one screen and different cult flicks on the other.
I remember doing the “Time Warp” at Abernathy’s in Walnut Creek
I saw Bambi there in ’75…I was twelve. A movie and ice skating were the things to do at Sun Valley back in the day. A different time.