Bijou Theater Shirt

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Bijou Shirts are double sided on Comfort Colors 1717
100% ring-spun cotton, heavy weight, relaxed fit.
- White shirt with black ink.

Originally built in the 1920s as a vaudeville theater and operating under numerous names over the decades, The Bijou was the last iteration of this famous Hermosa Beach movie theater. The Bijou opened up in 1983 out of the ashes of The Cove Theater's infamous closure from a riot during a Redd Kross concert at the theater in 1982. The Bijou lasted from 1983 - 1996, hosting independent, foreign and arthouse movies, as well as nostalgic older films. There was often enjoyable chaos at movies like "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" or the "Spike and Mike's Twisted Film Festival." It was the only venue in the South Bay to see artsy, intellectual, weird, foreign and profound films. All of South Bay local Quentin Tarantino's films would play at the Bijou. The theater helped continue the unique culture of Hermosa Beach, maintaining the city from being just another typical beach tourist town, a legacy that goes back to the early outcast surf culture of the area, the Beats at the Insomniac, the jazzheads at the Lighthouse, on through to the punk culture of Black Flag and the art of Raymond Pettibon. The Bijou and the iconic building that it operated in was similar to Either/Or Bookstore in that the building is so recognizable and they both nurtured an eccentric, intellectual and artistic culture in the South Bay. Anyone cool or cultured in the South Bay mourned the loss of the Bijou when it closed down in December of 1996.

Movie titles on the marquee: Pulp Fiction, Endless Summer, Spike & Mike, Rocky Horror.