Chronicle Snubs Chabot
Today's San Francisco Chronicle ran an article about the best movie houses in the Bay Area. Sadly lacking from that list is Castro Valley's own Chabot Cinema. So in response to the Big City Snub, Your Boulevardier would like to provide a baker's dozen of reasons the Chabot is wonderful.
1) It's the only single-screen first-run movie theater in the East Bay.
2) Terrific Tuesdays: all tickets just $4.
3) Summer midnight movies.
4) Because it's a single-screen theater, there aren't a bunch of bored-looking folks loitering in the lobby.
5) Several reasonable dining options in the neighborhood.
6) Neon, glorious neon!
7) Food-scrap recycling bins.
8) Reasonable walking distance from BART.
9) New, comfortable seats.
10) Outrageous legroom in the balcony.
11) Movie club gives you free popcorn.
12) No-service-charge online tickets.
13) In-seat concession service (supposedly; Your Boulevardier has not tried this).
If you haven't been to the Chabot recently, please go soon. We, the citizens of Castro Valley, must keep our hometown movie theater alive!
Labels: Chabot Theater, cool, CV businesses, movies, nightlife, signs
posted by Your Boulevardier @ 11:16 PM
3 Comments
3 Comments:
Though the Chabot Theater wasn't listed, the East Bay choices were pretty good. My first movie experience was at the Grand Lake - Bambi, back in the early 60s. I'm sad to see the Parkway Theater in Oakland is closing. I used to live a short walk from there and went often. We'd best keep supporting the Chabot Theater lest it join the Parkway as one of those cool places we wish were still around.
We try to go to Chabot as often as possible. I took my son to the midnight summer movies a couple of times last year, I hope they continue it.
We do go to The Chabot pretty frequently. The popcorn at the Chabot isn't as good as Century, but it's a cool theatre and we like to support local businesses.
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