{"id":271,"date":"2008-12-19T18:30:49","date_gmt":"2008-12-19T23:30:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=271"},"modified":"2012-10-22T23:58:36","modified_gmt":"2012-10-23T04:58:36","slug":"spring-valley-commons-theater-two-notch-road-1990s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=271","title":{"rendered":"Spring Valley Commons Theater, 9005 Two Notch Road: 1990s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/08\/12\/svcommons_theater02.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/08\/12\/svcommons_theater02_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This small multiplex was located in the <i>Spring Valley Commons<\/i> strip mall on Two Notch Road.  I believe the complex has a strong grocery anchor, but the rest of the place has been pretty transient.<\/p>\n<p>I can only recall seeing one movie at this venue,  the baseball comedy <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0097815\/\">Major League<\/a> in 1989.  Through an odd sequence of events, involving a teenager, my father had become the semi-involuntary weekend host of a USC Japanese exchange student who spoke no English.  (I wonder from time to time how that whole \"go to college in a country where you don't speak the language\" thing worked out for him).  At something of a loss as to how to entertain the guy, my father recruited my sister and me to take him to a movie.  As it turned out, the movie had a Japanese grounds-keeper character who spoke only Japanese, so at least the kid was able to understand a few words of the movie.<\/p>\n<p>The theater itself was fine, not memorable in any way, but certainly OK.  It was a pretty volatile time in the cinema market though, and I don't believe the place made it more than a few years into the 90s.  The space is now one of the ubiquitous \"self storage\" operations.<\/p>\n<p><b>UPDATE 23 October 2012<\/b>:  Add full street address and tags.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This small multiplex was located in the Spring Valley Commons strip mall on Two Notch Road. I believe the complex has a strong grocery anchor, but the rest of the place has been pretty transient. I can only recall seeing one movie at this venue, the baseball comedy Major League in 1989. Through an odd [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[13,15,5,630,971,192,28,54],"class_list":["post-271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-business","tag-entertainment","tag-historic","tag-movies","tag-rabon-road","tag-spring-valley-commons","tag-theater","tag-two-notch-road"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}