This page needs to get updated immediately. It did close for purposes for a short period of time in 2010 but it reopened later on as the “Picture Show At Frontier Village”, and is still opened today, running first-runs.
A correction on the address is that this is located on 1771 Arizona 69, not 1771 East Highway 69.
It was unclear why the 1973-built General Cinema Hanover Mall Cinema closed in September 1998 though. However, by newspapers from the Boston Globe, says that there was a massive error for more than a year saying that the theater was still operating under the GCC banner but there were no advertisements being displayed due to the theater’s closure.
This theater started life as the GCC Hanover Mall Cinema Centre in September 1973 with four screens and was first operated by General Cinema. It was later renamed the GCC Hanover Mall Cinemas. For the first 25 years of operation, it was a four-screen General Cinema until ultimately closing its doors in September 1998.
Sitting abandoned for three years in total, Patriot Cinemas decided to reopen the theater (expecting in August but it was pushed forward few months ahead), added two more screens, and reopened the Hanover Mall theater as the Patriot Cinemas 1-6 on December 28, 2001. Around a couple of years later, it became the Patriot Cinemas 1-10 after four more screens were added.
It closed on March 6, 2020 due to the pandemic, and its closure was announced permanent later that September. And lastly in mid-2021, the Patriot Cinemas itself was demolished.
Both the Dixie and the Logan theaters are separated theaters. This first opened as the Logan Theatre on June 23, 1949 with Robert Young in “Adventures In Baltimore” with no extra short subjects. The Dixie Theatre nearby continued to operate until 1954 after a bit more than 40 years of operation.
UPDATE: According To The Tampa Tribute, I just recently found that the Star-Lite closed in 1992 according to a March 30, 1999 evidence on the Star-Lite being auctioned off. Unfortunately, the theater did close on September 3, 1985 with those two films because it failed to draw an amount of people since 1981. I guess it did reopen either a couple or few years later. Not sure what happened afterward.
The Laura Theatre opened on April 18, 1947 with Robert Mitchum in “Pursued” along with an unnamed cartoon, sports reel, and a newsreel, with a capacity of 650.
Before ending its regular theater run, ABC Theaters of Pennsylvania operated the theater until the mid-1970s. That ultimately changed when the Laura Theater flipped to an XXX theater for no longer than three years. The Laura Theatre closed in 1979 and it reopened in 1980 as a live performance house ending in 1984.
Opened on June 6, 1950 with Glenn Ford in “The Return of October” along with an unnamed cartoon, a newsreel, and a Grantland Rice Sportlight.
On August 29 and 30, 1975, the Lycoming Drive-In’s concession stand was severely damaged and partially destroyed by mobs including a ram-over. Multiple teenagers from Williamsport and Bloomsburg among surrounding Lycoming County were arrested from the qualification of the property, while two 19-year-old males (one in Williamsport and the other from Bloomsburg) were arrested from non-life threatening traffic citations, driving while intoxicated, and underage drinking.
Opened in 1949 and closed on September 9, 1988 with Walt Disney’s “Bambi”. During its earlier years, it was known as two names as people can call the theater the Starlite Drive-In or the Watsonville Drive-In by advertisements.
The state-of-the-art Green Valley Cinema first opened with six screens (featuring 17x40 screens in each auditorium with a 900 seating capacity) on May 19, 1999, under the owners of Hank and Lucille Garcia among their family. One of the first films on grand opening was Star Wars Episode 1. Two more screens were added during the second week of July 2003 bringing a total to eight screens and a ninth screen was added around a decade later.
Construction began on July 22, 1998. During construction despite being an all first-run theater, Hank also originally planned to add foreign and independent films to the theater itself but that plan was scrapped.
Information about the Airport goes as follows: The Airport was first operated by C.W. Moss and his Interstate Theatres chain, and was the fifth drive-in to open by the Interstate chain within the past two years with others being in Albuquerque, Tyler, and Abilene. Moss has been part of the Paris area’s Interstate chain since 1941. Moss had started to plan both on the installation and the theater shortly after traveling to Abilene for the opening of the Park Drive-In there in December 1949, although Paris already had the 271 Drive-In three miles north of Paris. The Airport Drive-In though was located a mile-and-a-half southeast of the city. The manager of the Airport was Caviness-native Cecil Burch (who was part of the army shortly before the start of World War II for one year and ten months) and the contractors for the theater were done by the J.R. Spencer Company of Fort Worth, nearly 110 miles away from Paris itself. Construction started four months prior to opening by J. Harvey Elder. On opening, two cartoons were featured on its grand opening day (July 13, 1950) before “Renegades”: Bugs Bunny’s “High Diving Hare” and Tom And Jerry’s “The Little Orphan”.
A couple of those participants are Raymond Willie, a superior of the Valley Theatres Incorporated chain and one of the leaders of the Interstate Theatres chain since the organization in 1918. Prior to his joining, he had been working at Fort Worth’s Hippodrome Theatre in 1916. Living in the metroplex, he was transferred to San Antonio in 1937 where he was charged in every single theater operated by Interstate; and Pat Hudgins, the supervisor of the Interstate chain since 1935, who had been in connection with the Interstate chain in Dallas, Denison, and Tyler.
The Saenger was destroyed by one of the most deadliest tornadoes in Mississippi, which is Vicksburg’s violent F5 tornado on December 6, 1953. The tornado killed 38 people and injuring 270 others.
General Cinema operated the Westdale from its start on April 4, 1980 until being taken over by Excellence Theatres in 1989. The Westdale was one of the last three General Cinemas operating in Iowa.
Taken over by AMC after Carmike’s intention deal in December 2016, although the building’s Wynnsong signs and leftovers continued to last until 2018. And as of August 2022, it was still closed (“until further notice”).
This page needs to get updated immediately. It did close for purposes for a short period of time in 2010 but it reopened later on as the “Picture Show At Frontier Village”, and is still opened today, running first-runs.
A correction on the address is that this is located on 1771 Arizona 69, not 1771 East Highway 69.
Closing sometime in the late 1980s, a 1992 aerial shows that at least a little more than a half of the theater’s traces were easily visible.
Opened On June 8, 1949.
Closed on August 16, 1990.
It was unclear why the 1973-built General Cinema Hanover Mall Cinema closed in September 1998 though. However, by newspapers from the Boston Globe, says that there was a massive error for more than a year saying that the theater was still operating under the GCC banner but there were no advertisements being displayed due to the theater’s closure.
Opened on August 1, 1959 with Lana Turner in “Imitation Of Life” and Audie Murphy in “No Name On The Bullet”.
This theater started life as the GCC Hanover Mall Cinema Centre in September 1973 with four screens and was first operated by General Cinema. It was later renamed the GCC Hanover Mall Cinemas. For the first 25 years of operation, it was a four-screen General Cinema until ultimately closing its doors in September 1998.
Sitting abandoned for three years in total, Patriot Cinemas decided to reopen the theater (expecting in August but it was pushed forward few months ahead), added two more screens, and reopened the Hanover Mall theater as the Patriot Cinemas 1-6 on December 28, 2001. Around a couple of years later, it became the Patriot Cinemas 1-10 after four more screens were added.
It closed on March 6, 2020 due to the pandemic, and its closure was announced permanent later that September. And lastly in mid-2021, the Patriot Cinemas itself was demolished.
Both the Dixie and the Logan theaters are separated theaters. This first opened as the Logan Theatre on June 23, 1949 with Robert Young in “Adventures In Baltimore” with no extra short subjects. The Dixie Theatre nearby continued to operate until 1954 after a bit more than 40 years of operation.
The Capitol opened on October 22, 1928 with Al Jolson’s “The Singing Fool” (unclear if any short subjects were added).
Unclear if any short subjects were added though.
Opened In June 1949, Demolished In The Mid-1990s.
UPDATE: According To The Tampa Tribute, I just recently found that the Star-Lite closed in 1992 according to a March 30, 1999 evidence on the Star-Lite being auctioned off. Unfortunately, the theater did close on September 3, 1985 with those two films because it failed to draw an amount of people since 1981. I guess it did reopen either a couple or few years later. Not sure what happened afterward.
Opened with “Ali Baba And The Forty Thieves” along with an unnamed cartoon and an unnamed comedy reel.
The Laura Theatre opened on April 18, 1947 with Robert Mitchum in “Pursued” along with an unnamed cartoon, sports reel, and a newsreel, with a capacity of 650.
Before ending its regular theater run, ABC Theaters of Pennsylvania operated the theater until the mid-1970s. That ultimately changed when the Laura Theater flipped to an XXX theater for no longer than three years. The Laura Theatre closed in 1979 and it reopened in 1980 as a live performance house ending in 1984.
Opened on June 6, 1950 with Glenn Ford in “The Return of October” along with an unnamed cartoon, a newsreel, and a Grantland Rice Sportlight.
On August 29 and 30, 1975, the Lycoming Drive-In’s concession stand was severely damaged and partially destroyed by mobs including a ram-over. Multiple teenagers from Williamsport and Bloomsburg among surrounding Lycoming County were arrested from the qualification of the property, while two 19-year-old males (one in Williamsport and the other from Bloomsburg) were arrested from non-life threatening traffic citations, driving while intoxicated, and underage drinking.
Late 1986
Closed In August 1999.
Opened in 1949 and closed on September 9, 1988 with Walt Disney’s “Bambi”. During its earlier years, it was known as two names as people can call the theater the Starlite Drive-In or the Watsonville Drive-In by advertisements.
The state-of-the-art Green Valley Cinema first opened with six screens (featuring 17x40 screens in each auditorium with a 900 seating capacity) on May 19, 1999, under the owners of Hank and Lucille Garcia among their family. One of the first films on grand opening was Star Wars Episode 1. Two more screens were added during the second week of July 2003 bringing a total to eight screens and a ninth screen was added around a decade later.
Construction began on July 22, 1998. During construction despite being an all first-run theater, Hank also originally planned to add foreign and independent films to the theater itself but that plan was scrapped.
Information about the Airport goes as follows: The Airport was first operated by C.W. Moss and his Interstate Theatres chain, and was the fifth drive-in to open by the Interstate chain within the past two years with others being in Albuquerque, Tyler, and Abilene. Moss has been part of the Paris area’s Interstate chain since 1941. Moss had started to plan both on the installation and the theater shortly after traveling to Abilene for the opening of the Park Drive-In there in December 1949, although Paris already had the 271 Drive-In three miles north of Paris. The Airport Drive-In though was located a mile-and-a-half southeast of the city. The manager of the Airport was Caviness-native Cecil Burch (who was part of the army shortly before the start of World War II for one year and ten months) and the contractors for the theater were done by the J.R. Spencer Company of Fort Worth, nearly 110 miles away from Paris itself. Construction started four months prior to opening by J. Harvey Elder. On opening, two cartoons were featured on its grand opening day (July 13, 1950) before “Renegades”: Bugs Bunny’s “High Diving Hare” and Tom And Jerry’s “The Little Orphan”.
A couple of those participants are Raymond Willie, a superior of the Valley Theatres Incorporated chain and one of the leaders of the Interstate Theatres chain since the organization in 1918. Prior to his joining, he had been working at Fort Worth’s Hippodrome Theatre in 1916. Living in the metroplex, he was transferred to San Antonio in 1937 where he was charged in every single theater operated by Interstate; and Pat Hudgins, the supervisor of the Interstate chain since 1935, who had been in connection with the Interstate chain in Dallas, Denison, and Tyler.
The Saenger was destroyed by one of the most deadliest tornadoes in Mississippi, which is Vicksburg’s violent F5 tornado on December 6, 1953. The tornado killed 38 people and injuring 270 others.
General Cinema operated the Westdale from its start on April 4, 1980 until being taken over by Excellence Theatres in 1989. The Westdale was one of the last three General Cinemas operating in Iowa.
Opened on June 1, 1951 with Gene Kelly in “Take Me Out To The Ballgame” and the Bowery Boys in “Lucky Losers” along with an unnamed cartoon.
The West-Vue’s last day of operation was September 20, 1977 with “Nasty Habits” and “Monty Python and the Holy Grail” along with two cartoons.
Taken over by AMC after Carmike’s intention deal in December 2016, although the building’s Wynnsong signs and leftovers continued to last until 2018. And as of August 2022, it was still closed (“until further notice”).
Closed on August 18, 2000.