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Rialto Cinemas’ 20th anniversary (http://www.sonomawest.com/sonoma_west_times_and_news/news/rialto-cinemas-th-anniversary/article_deedc8b0-3246-11ea-bf1f-6fe45016dc12.html#utm_source=sonomawest.com&utm_campaign=%2Fnewsletters%2Fheadlines-sonomawest%2F%3F-dc%3D1578615089&utm_medium=email&utm_content=headline)
By Laura Hagar Rush, Sonoma West Editor , [email protected]
Jan 8, 2020
48585Rialto Cinemas is celebrating its 20th anniversary with a big party at the theater in Sebastopol on Jan. 21.
Looking back at the last 20 years running the theater, owner Ky Boyd said, “It’s been a fantastic adventure.”
The Rialto opened its doors as Sonoma County’s first art house cinema in April 2000 in a location on Summerfield Road in Santa Rosa. Boyd remembers that at the time few people thought of Sonoma County as an art house market, and many predicted a quick demise for the business. He and his partner thought otherwise.
“We saw that there was a market here, that the audience existed. We just needed to provide the movies and show people that they would be there on a consistent basis,” he said.
It was a cause célèbre among the county’s cognoscenti in 2010 when the Rialto’s landlord declined to renew their lease. Four thousand people flocked to a Facebook page set up to support the theater, and 800 people attended the theater’s closing night party. For 20 long months, Rialto Cinemas went on the road — showing films at 6th Street Playhouse, the Jackson Theater and anywhere else they could find.
Continues here (http://www.sonomawest.com/sonoma_west_times_and_news/news/rialto-cinemas-th-anniversary/article_deedc8b0-3246-11ea-bf1f-6fe45016dc12.html#utm_source=sonomawest.com&utm_campaign=%2Fnewsletters%2Fheadlines-sonomawest%2F%3F-dc%3D1578615089&utm_medium=email&utm_content=headline)
Rialto Cinemas’ 20th anniversary (http://www.sonomawest.com/sonoma_west_times_and_news/news/rialto-cinemas-th-anniversary/article_deedc8b0-3246-11ea-bf1f-6fe45016dc12.html#utm_source=sonomawest.com&utm_campaign=%2Fnewsletters%2Fheadlines-sonomawest%2F%3F-dc%3D1578615089&utm_medium=email&utm_content=headline)
By Laura Hagar Rush, Sonoma West Editor , [email protected]
Jan 8, 2020
48585Rialto Cinemas is celebrating its 20th anniversary with a big party at the theater in Sebastopol on Jan. 21.
Looking back at the last 20 years running the theater, owner Ky Boyd said, “It’s been a fantastic adventure.”
The Rialto opened its doors as Sonoma County’s first art house cinema in April 2000 in a location on Summerfield Road in Santa Rosa. Boyd remembers that at the time few people thought of Sonoma County as an art house market, and many predicted a quick demise for the business. He and his partner thought otherwise.
“We saw that there was a market here, that the audience existed. We just needed to provide the movies and show people that they would be there on a consistent basis,” he said.
It was a cause célèbre among the county’s cognoscenti in 2010 when the Rialto’s landlord declined to renew their lease. Four thousand people flocked to a Facebook page set up to support the theater, and 800 people attended the theater’s closing night party. For 20 long months, Rialto Cinemas went on the road — showing films at 6th Street Playhouse, the Jackson Theater and anywhere else they could find.
Continues here (http://www.sonomawest.com/sonoma_west_times_and_news/news/rialto-cinemas-th-anniversary/article_deedc8b0-3246-11ea-bf1f-6fe45016dc12.html#utm_source=sonomawest.com&utm_campaign=%2Fnewsletters%2Fheadlines-sonomawest%2F%3F-dc%3D1578615089&utm_medium=email&utm_content=headline)