Clear Lake Theatre At 16602 El Camino Real

[iliketurtles]

I just found out about it from this. Does anyone know where it was located in Clear Lake?

Thanks.

[rnwerner]

There was a theatre at 16640 El Camino Real.  The same building that had Oriental Gourmet.

[FilioScotia]

Across El Camino Real from the Clear Lake Shopping Center.

 

http://cinematreasures.org/theaters/29309

[rnwerner]

That's it.  I was depending on Google for the address, which was wrong. 

After the theatre shut down (early 80's, if I remember correctly), it was a night club --Coconuts for a while, then Premier, and some others.  The Chinese food place moved in around 2000. 

[sevfiv]

Yes - Oriental Gourmet was there (currently for lease). There is a neat time capsule on the property, set to be opened in 2016:

 

[bred]

I'm pretty sure this became a bar in the late 90's/early 2000's.  I think it was called Piggy Bank or Stock Exchange, Borrowed Money?  Something like that.

[plumber2]

Took a date there during high school. Saw the Andronomus Strain.

[FilioScotia]

I'm going to assume that you deliberately misspelled that as a joke, and I'm assuming you know the title was "The Andromeda Strain." 

 

Since you say you were there with your date, maybe you and she didn't pay much attention to the movie.
 

Edited October 21, 2013 by FilioScotia

[iliketurtles]

Thanks, guys! It was bugging the heck out of me! I remember eating at the Oriental Gourmet.

 

Found another old ad with a picture of the theater.

 

Edited October 31, 2013 by iliketurtles

[iliketurtles]

Maybe I need to just start a new thread, but does anyone have pics of the Clear Lake area from the 60's-90's?

[sevfiv]

I'm pretty sure this became a bar in the late 90's/early 2000's.  I think it was called Piggy Bank or Stock Exchange, Borrowed Money?  Something like that.

 

Yeah in the late 90s it was the Stock Exchange (and this document calls it the Stock Exchange in Wall Street: http://legacy.library.ucsf.edu/documentStore/b/d/h/bdh14c00/Sbdh14c00.pdf)

[rnwerner]

Yeah in the late 90s it was the Stock Exchange (and this document calls it the Stock Exchange in Wall Street: http://legacy.library.ucsf.edu/documentStore/b/d/h/bdh14c00/Sbdh14c00.pdf)

 

 

Wallstreet was operating as 3 clubs in one.   Piggy Bank was the pub/live music venue in front, the upper level in the back was a top 40 dance club (if I remember correctly that was Stock Exchange), and there was a country western bar in the middle (I think it was called Easy Money). 

[plumber2]

I'm going to assume that you deliberately misspelled that as a joke, and I'm assuming you know the title was "The Andromeda Strain." 

 

Since you say you were there with your date, maybe you and she didn't pay much attention to the movie.

 

 

I mispelled it joking because I didn't know how to spell it then, just like I don't know how to spell it now.

 

One thing funny about that date I was with: She was pretty shy and quiet back then, but after talking to an old buddy of mine recently, was informed that she has spent some time in jail through the years. Who'd of figured!

[NenaE]

 

I don't know anything about the Clear Lake theater location. But I do know that the AMC - Cinema at Baybrook Mall looked just like the earlier, larger locations, Meyerland, Gulfgate, Northline. Had star patterned, linoleum walls and sixties style mini white tiles with an occasional splash of color, orange, turquoise, etc. in the restrooms and that scarlet carpet in the lobby. Trademark look. Thought it was so fancy.