It’s curtains for one Fayetteville movie theater

posted by Michael Zoldessy on June 23, 2009 at 3:40 pm

FAYETEVILLE, AR — A once popular mall cinema, the Malco Mall Twin, is closing its doors after thirty years.

The screens of Malco’s Mall Twin Cinema in the Northwest Arkansas Mall have fallen dark for the last time.

Some say the theater that’s full of their movie memories marks the end of an era. The movie’s entrance used to be a main thoroughfare for the Northwest Arkansas Mall, busting with people buying movie tickets and hot popcorn at the mall twin cinema. Now, there’s no chance of catch a flick there anymore; the long-running cinema rolled closing credits for the last time this week. Mall Twin Cinema fans like Darin Bell can’t believe the cinema’s seats have already been ripped out. “We were kids, so we all sat right in the front, and I think there’s a piece of my bubble gum that I probably left from 30 years ago, too, ha!”

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