Gadsden Cinema Four
301 N. 12th Street,
Gadsden,
AL
35901
301 N. 12th Street,
Gadsden,
AL
35901
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Previously operated by: Georgia Theatre Company, United Artists Theater Circuit Inc.
Previous Names: Cinema, Cinema I & II, Gadsden Rocking Chair Cinema
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Opened April 30, 1970 as the Cinema, the theater was located just north of Broad Street on N. 12th Street in the Agricola Center. The Cinema was twinned on May 28, 1976 and became the Cinema I & II. It was closed in 1989.
Again remodeled and made into a fourplex, opened as a discount theatre on March 9, 1993 as the Gadsden Cinema Four. It became a first-run theatre from November 5, 1999 and closed in 2002.
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There is information about the opening of this theater on this site:
http://tinyurl.com/zq5kh
Drove by it this morning on the way back from a run to Oxford. From the outside, nothing seems to have changed.
This web page has information about the Gadsden Cinema, including opening date (April 30, 1970,) reopening as a twin (May 28, 1976,) and a 1989 closing. It reopened as a discount four-plex on March 9, 1993. It also says that after the theater closed as a discount house, it reopened as a first run theater on November 5, 1999, then closed for the last time in 2002.
I saw all three of the first “Star Wars” films in this theater. Also got booted and threatened with being banned, for trying to sneak into “Alien” when I was 15!
In 1995 I saw my first NC-17 movie, Showgirls, with a group of high school friends at this theater. It was the first time I had to show my driver’s license to do something “adult” so I felt cool –had just turned 17-years old, too. I thought the movie was going to be sexually explicit, but everyone in the theater was yelling, laughing, and having a fun, rowdy time –including us. I loved it. Also, saw a screening of “Pink Flamingos” here in the ‘90s. Around this time you could see second-run movies for, I think, only $1.