Harkins Camelview 5
7001 E. Highland Avenue,
Scottsdale,
AZ
85251
7001 E. Highland Avenue,
Scottsdale,
AZ
85251
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One your What is Rivest Doing, it would be much easier to follow if the years were in numerical order.
Closing in 2016 for a new 14-plex in the mall. http://www.harkinstheatres.com/theatreOpenings.aspx
Chris 1982, The original name means that this was the 7th cinema in the Harkins chain, not the screen count. The cinema was renamed as Camelview in 1974.
The cinema was expanded on July 13th, 1990 to its five screens. Grand opening ad in photo section.
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Rivest1266, this is a 5 screen not a 7 screen according to their website.
June 17th, 1973 grand opening ad as Cinema 7 – Camelview plaza in photo section.
Initially opened on June 17, 1973.
Harkins Camelview 5 opened in 1973 as a twin cinema on an outparcel of the Camel View Plaza mall. The mall has since merged into Scottsdale Fashion Square. For decades it’s been one of the very few independent venues for limited-release films in the whole state of Arizona.
As of September 2013 Camelview is threatened with demolition as part of Fashion Square expansion. Harkins leases the property and isn’t responsible for the decision. It’ll be replaced with — parking and landscaping.
You can sign a petition to save this nice little neighborhood art house here: http://www.change.org/petitions/macerich-don-t-demolish-the-camelview-theater
Visited this multiplex for the first time I’m December 2012 to catch a showing of HITCHCOCK.
Posted two photos of the entrance.
Auditorium two seats about 400, auds 1 and 3 looks to be about 250, auditorium 5, the “screening room” seats about 40. Aud 2 is a fairly nice place, large screen – auds 1 and 3 look like a larger screen twinned down the middle (off-center screen). The complex opened in 1973.