Gardena Cinema

2010 | Best Small-Town Big Screen (1947)

If you ever wondered what going to the movies was like before the world got gummed up with wasteful, endless cracker-box theaters, the Gardena Cinema is a window on a simpler time -- even if it is a window made of increasingly cracked glass. The Gardena is the last independent cinema operating in the South Bay area of Los Angeles -- not counting the secret cinema at Alpine Village in Torrance -- and its 800 seats face a single 37-foot screen. Opened in 1947 as the Park Theatre, the Gard... More »