Lima cinemas of yesteryear 2
24. Alianza
El Alianza: yesterday it was tht chongo, today a temple By Socrates Araníbar Luna I was traveling in a Coaster down Avenida José Pardo heading to my home in Callao and it just broke down on the corner with Gálvez. As I was in no hurry, I decided to take a walk around my old neighborhood. After almost thirty years I went through the 17 of Jose Gálvez again. It was siesta hours and I remembered that more than fifty years ago, at that same time the movement began to enter the Alianza cinema, a legend in Lince. And a thousand anecdotes came to my mind ...
The characters of the Alliance ... From 2.00 p.m. the movement began. At that time, Don Enrique was standing with the richest blood in Lima on his table with dice for the ‘grande y chica’ timba. The lazy people sitting on the sidewalk with their cowboy novels by Marcial Lafuente Estefanía ò "James Bond 007" by Ian Fleming (pocket version), the habitas (serrano gum) and a swarm of characters: "Maca", "El Lechugano", who proclaimed his stuffed potatoes: ... ”poison, poison!”. Kike (who was the operator), his brother "Babita", my cause "Cuteto" (for research reasons), lame Mario q. and. p. d., Ciego Pancho, Cara de Gallo, my cousins "Los locos Luna", and I (to School in the morning and they didn't give homework like today).
The Lost Movies ...
It must have been the cheapest cinema in Lima next to the Huáscar de los Barrios Altos and where the oldest films were screened, those that had already been around three times throughout Peru.However, the intellectuals went to look for transcendental films, Since the Cinemas-clubs did not yet exist, it was impossible to see them elsewhere. It was not uncommon to see Don Alfonso Delboy, Sebastián Salazar Bondy, Pedro Ureta, father of El Loco Ureta, in the upper stalls. In a recent interview, Ricardo Bedoya (from "The pleasure of the eyes") confessed to being a regular customer of the Alianza cinema because there he found classic films that had eluded him many years ago. The cinema was so popular that the neighborhood spark gave it nicknames, playing with the names of first-class cinemas: Metro flea, Aliambra etc. The last night performance was attended by various archetypal characters: those who were going to see the movie, those who were going to fuck, the "broccolis" (Matta, "Aguila Coja"), the mustaceros, the coca chacchadores and those who snored in their sleep (You had to throw peach seeds at them so they wouldn't make noise), and if the movie was bad, the bun would become general.
Baby, did you fuck it? - Yessss! - Bebe responds from the front with her innocent whistle voice. Bebe's mother, a voluminous lady who always sat on the last bench, can't stand it: - Baby, I heard, in the house I bust you !!! Five minutes of laughter and every ten minutes the bun is repeated. People waited for the room to be silent and the imitation of the lady's voice would emerge again (it was Makachorrin) ... - Bebeeeeee, I already heard you! I have never laughed so much in a movie theater. I confess that I also imitated the lady, but only once. And to poor Bebe, the innocent character with the whistling voice, the phrase stuck in his ears for several years; when passing by the street the lynx neighbors greeted him with this hose - Baby, I heard you! ...
This endearing old Cinema was packed at Easter with people from all over Lima looking for "The Passion of Christ" (silent version) that was so worn that it ended up lasting only 15 minutes. Other habitues were looking for the French Film Noir of the forties. and sitting there on one of its moth-eaten benches I saw a wonderful French version of "Dr. Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde", in which Mr. Hyde was a chaplinesque character called "Opal" ... plate that my cause inherited Miguel Matta Zevallos. The old cinema closed and a whole stage in the life of Lince and Lo batón was closed and the images of their cran flew to infinity, but those who still live in the place say that -as in La Canción del Viejo Roxy by Joan Manuel Serrat - In the early mornings you can hear the voices of Marlon Brando, Humphrey Bogart, Jean Servais, Marilyn, with acoustics of an empty room ... Oh, and you can also hear the echoes of Bebe's mother's voice (rpd) - Baby, I already heard you, in the house I burst you !!! (This serial will continue next week ...)
Posted by Manuel Araní bar Luna at 9:08 PM Arturo SilvaJanuary 28, 2019, 3:57 PM The cinema alliance was once my family, the silvas. My aunt Teresa attended the box office and Don Billy the black always ran around her. that moment the audience and the mezzanine wouldn't stop fucking Don Ponpe Many times I saw an army truck arrive at the beat in an army truck taking dozens of students from Melitón Carbajal dressed in their classic commando uniform. Many times I played dice with Don Zambito and I always bet in the middle and many times I won. The alliance cinema holds the most beautiful memories of my childhood and I still remember the projection room where many times it was I who put the advertising that was printed on a piece of glass painted with its classic lifeless pastel colors. I remember that before closing they staged a strip teese show and the municipality closed it down, thereby killing one of the places where I was really happy ...
25. Ambassador
By coincidence, after the Alianza cinema from which I lived around the corner, I went on to describe Al Ambassador an elegant movie theater, which I later lived near him. Located in Lince Lobaton, it was elegant as the following comment: Ricardo Oshiro: I DON'T REMEMBER WHAT MOVIE I WENT TO SEE THERE AND I THINK IT IS BECAUSE I AM ALWAYS IMPACTED BY ITS STUNNING CURTAINS IN FRONT OF THE SCREEN .... REALLY LUXURY ... !!
26. Country
This cinema, like the Ambassador, were located ‘like neighborhood cinemas, but in reality they were theaters; With these two neighborhood cinemas they showed that the original concept of a premiere room, to which people arrived mobilizing by public or private service, that is, they could attract audiences from any part of Lima, since they had capacity. However, at that time, residential-based cinemas such as Country, Ambassador, Orrantia, San Felipe and others emerged that are neighborhood cinemas by location, but which at the same time are premiere theaters with close access for their residents. In other words, the Country and the Ambassador were the premiere theaters of the Lince district, but with access to its San Isidro limits.
27. Western
It was well located at the height of block 22 of Arequipa avenues and Petit Thouars. Live music and dance shows were also played. This cinema was famous for selling ham sandwich. It had a good neighborhood movie billboard.
28. Ollanta
This cinema lacked an architecture of its facade, but it was very popular for cheap tickets. It was a well-known cinema and it served, as a reference when someone asked to know about a street, and it is there that Ollanta was an excellent reference. Like western movies, they had a side and stalls, separated only by red cords, tied to two small metal posts. This was the separation of the stalls and side. I do not remember if the ticket prices were the same. I lived at 22 de Arenales.
29. Azul
The Blue of Santa Beatriz. It was founded in 1941 and operated until 1986. From shortly after its closure until today it is the seat of an evangelical temple. I went to this cinema very often because it was close to my house. The Blue Cinema is one of the symbols of Santa Beatriz. Inaugurated in 1941 in the fourth block of the Teodoro Cárdenas shred. It was part of the so-called "neighborhood cinemas" that within the hierarchical scale had to wait a few weeks (sometimes months) for the films to finish their cycle in the "first-run theaters" and go to these more popular cinemas. The announcement of the film The Four Sons of Adam could be one of the first, if not the first, of the films presented in such a beloved theater. Also shown are clippings from the 1982 film directory, when Blue was dyed red and featured films for the elderly. Another curiosity is the screening of "The Prison" by the Swedish master Ingmar Bergman in 1970. The place has had minimal modifications to its exterior. We can still see an original gate and the sidewalk tiles. For almost twenty years, the former Blue Cinema has been a place of religious worship, run by the Evangelical Center of the Assemblies of God in Peru. They say that a cinema is the place where a group of people dream a common dream. How many times have we who make up this community, and dreamed of Ingrid Bergman, Susan Hayward, Steve McQueen, Harrison Ford or Kathleen Turner, in a vermouth or night function? I still retain it in my memory, it seems to me that it was on Petit Thouars avenue. On the cinema street half a block away there was a bar where they also served food and it was open very late; Before arriving at the cinema, a Japanese man had chicha morada, sausages, flipped milk, tamales and other things that he consumed before entering the cinema. A characteristic of neighborhood cinemas was that they were not very strict with the restriction of only those over 21 years old. So I used to go to adult movies when I was a teenager. Although there were certain films that I was denied entry. This was one of my favorite cinemas, especially for late-night shows because of my proximity to home.
30. Alhambra
This cinema was also very cozy because it was a premiere room in a residential area. It had a well-kept garden in front of the cinema, with an audience and a mezzanine. El Callao also has a cinema with the same name. I have tried to find a photo of this cinema without success, since I have good memories. This cinema was located in Lince, which was known as Los Geranios Urbanization or something similar. It was a few blocks from the Javier Prado clinic on the avenue of the same name, but it adjoined the San Isidro district.
31. Orrantia
On 1967, the remembered Orrantia cinema, which was located at the intersection of Javier Prado and Arequipa avenues. In the last months of that year, he screened the movie "Wait for the Dark", with Audrey Hepburn. This was another of my favorites because of my proximity to home. Taking my mother to the movies was always decent and sweet for the chocolates.
32. Conde de Lemos
Our traditional Barrios Altos has had an outstanding importance, in the historical development of Lima, its squares constitute the most representative and traditional urban spaces of the monumental area of Lima, highlighting its historical, architectural and artistic value. Precisely one of the important spaces of Barrios Altos is the Plazuela de Buenos Aires, a place where it was consolidated as a public space that led it to be a permanent environment for film projection since the beginning of the 20th century, to finish off the custom with the creation of the Cinema Conde de Lemos. When one of the most outstanding inventions of the late nineteenth century arrived in Lima: the cinematograph, a technological marvel that in 1895 was exhibited in France by the brothers Louis and Auguste Lumiére, it spread around the world like wildfire, reaching to Peru in its vitascope variant in January 1897 and the cinematograph in 1900. From these dates, a new architectural character emerged in our Lima: the cinemas. In the 1910s, some of the first cinemas were architecturally elementary, and their exterior was a reflection of the constructive and structural elements, which is why the Popular Cinema, the Popular Cinema and the Buenos Aires Cinema were small cinemas of the first decades of the 20th century, as we see one of the first premises was built precisely in the Plazuela de Buenos Aires, in which some first patterns are respected and form the beginnings of a typology. The “gabled” roofs were the result of the use of wooden trusses. The high population density of the Barrios Altos, motivated the businessmen to invest capital in the construction of more appropriate premises for the exhibition of the first silent films. An example of the success of the cinemas in the Barrios Altos is the fact that between 1920 and 1930, approximately 60% of the total cinemas had been built. A second generation of cinemas in the Barrios Altos were the Bolívar, Continental, Francisco Pizarro, with impressive architecture, and the Cinema Conde de Lemos, in front of the Buenos Aires square, inaugurated in 1948 on the grounds of the old San José alley. It is only in the 1940s and 1950s, as Víctor Mejía points out in Illusions a Oscuras, that policies of constructive formalization of movie theaters were carried out in Lima. Although there were regulations to make buildings safer and more suitable for the exhibition of films, screenings continued to be carried out in unsuitable environments such as confectioneries or cafes. The Cine Conde de Lemos was also the last cinema that existed in Barrios Altos, working until 1995. The history of cinema was passing through the cinemas of the Barrios Altos until the modernity of television began to eclipse them. Historian Jorge Américo Mendoza Vidal
32. Victoria
In the midst of the growing trend towards multiplex cinemas that began in the 1990s, it was what ended with neighborhood cinemas; among them, of course, the Victoria. The last film to be shown in that theater was The White Storm, whose last projection began on Sunday, September 29, 1996 at ten o'clock at night. The knockdown ball barely waited a few days to begin its relentless demolition work.
33. Colina
In Miraflores; after some time another photo of the memory of the old and beloved Colina cinema appears, our neighborhood cinema when I lived in block 7 of Pardo avenue, two blocks from there; It was on the fourth block of Berlin Street, a space where today a multi-family building has been erected. Nano Quiroga In the 90s it became the Mamut nightclub Ana Maria Rey Sella As a child in summer on Tuesdays they gave series like flash gordon and others ... We went in a group with the moms ... beautiful time ... Miraflores quiet and very familiar Sylvia Nunez Yes of course!! At 1 cdra. from my house. Visited every week Elvira La Jara Vasquez It was block 4 of Berlin Miguel Illescas Sure, there I went to see Platoon (Platoon) and many other movies. Jorge Alejandro Picón Chapauji How many movies did I not go to see there at the cinema Hill in Berlin? Enrique Mayer of course, they let me in despite being a minor Carmen Benites Roque I remember it a lot ... there at Christmas they gave toys and there I received my first doll ... I was born and raised in BERLIN AND ROME 200. IN FRONT OF THE TAKATA BAKERY .... KNOWING THAT EVERYTHING HAS CHANGED PURS ME. BUT IT'S THE PROGRESS. Kike Alfaro How many movies did I see in that theater, in one of the last before it disappeared, a blackout caught me inside the theater and they gave us a pass to return the next day. (It was the time of terrorism) Oscar Mas How can I not remember it, in front of the electricity workshop of Don Pedro Berrospide, where I took my car to repair efficiency and a good price 33. Hill In Miraflores; after some time another photo of the memory of the old and beloved Colina cinema appears, our neighborhood cinema when I lived in block 7 of Pardo avenue, two blocks from there; It was on the fourth block of Berlin Street, a space where today a multi-family building has been erected. Nano Quiroga In the 90s it became the Mamut nightclub Ana Maria Rey Sella As a child in summer on Tuesdays they gave series like flash gordon and others ... We went in a group with the moms ... beautiful time ... Miraflores quiet and very familiar Sylvia Nunez Yes of course!! At 1 cdra. from my house. Visited every week Elvira LaJara Vasquez It was block 4 of Berlin Miguel Illescas Sure, there I went to see Platoon (Platoon) and many other movies. Jorge Alejandro Picón Chapauji How many movies did I not go to see there at the cinema Hill in Berlin? Enrique Mayer of course, they let me in despite being a minor Carmen Benites Roque Iooo I remember it a lot. There at Christmas they gave toys and there I received my first doll ... I was born and raised in BERLIN AND ROME 200. IN FRONT OF THE TAKATA BAKERY .... KNOWING THAT EVERYTHING HAS CHANGED PUNISHES ME. BUT IT'S THE PROGRESS. Kike Alfaro How many movies did I see in that theater, in one of the last before it disappeared, a blackout caught me inside the theater and they gave us a pass to return the next day. (It was the time of terrorism) Oscar Mas How can I not remember it, in front of the electricity workshop of Don Pedro Berrospide, where I took my car to repair efficiency and a good price.
Continuing final part 3.
With affection, Ruben
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