The escalators outside the AMC Burbank 16 movie theater. (Hayes Davenport/L.A. Material)
NESTLED ALONGSIDE THE 5 FREEWAY that bisects the city of Burbank, the AMC Burbank 16 theater opened in 2003 as part of what was then called the AMC Entertainment Village. “This marks the new resurgence of downtown,” Doug Jaquay, the project’s developer, told the L.A. Times at the grand opening.
Twenty-three years later, the theater shares a box office with the AMC Town Centers 6 and 8 in the neighboring Burbank Town Center Mall that holds the title, by their powers combined, of the highest-grossing movie theater in the country.
But that’s not what the Burbank 16 is most famous for. For years now, the theater has been the subject of jokes, memes, and online gripes for a very specific reason:
The escalators are broken a lot.
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