St. Anthony Main Theatre
115 Main Street SE,
Minneapolis,
MN
55414
115 Main Street SE,
Minneapolis,
MN
55414
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Did this theater run any 70mm prints during the period of time they were equipped to do so?
November 22nd, 1985 grand opening ad in the photo section.
When it opened, the theater had no on-site restrooms. Patrons walked from the ground-floor lobby through an adjoining restaurant to the set of restrooms built to serve the entire building complex. (The city allowed this through some kind of code exemption.) Patrons complained, however, and small restrooms were then installed under the staircase leading from the ground floor lobby to the second floor lobby.
Some corrections to dates. The story given here makes it sound like Engler never ran the place. They did, for 2 years. It opened 11/22/85 and in Nov 1987 the lease went to UA. Minneapolis taxpayers financed a lot of this boondoggle in the early 1980s.
Some say this cinema is haunted. Anyone know anything about that?
The design for the theatre was actually laid out by the city of Minneapolis. Engler’s built the facility, but had to bow out of the cinema market, partly due to troubles with their restaurant franchises.
Old signage from UA & Reading is still present in the mall surrounding the theatre.