Hannah Heineman Aero Celebrates Two Milestones, SM Mirror, 14-20 January 2010, p. 37
The Aero Theatre has been a part of the Santa Monica landscape for the past 70 years, and for the last five years the theatre has been part of American Cinematheque.
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According to the Cinema Treasures' website, the Aero was built by the Donald Douglas Company in 1939 and "was originally opened as a continuous 24-hour move theater for aircraft workers who worked in shifts around the clock." Actor/Director Robert Redford was supposed to take over the theater with his ill-fated Sundance Cinemas project but pulled out and the Aero closed in 2003.
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