Willowbrook Mall Cinema
2000 Willowbrook Drive,
Houston,
TX
77070
2000 Willowbrook Drive,
Houston,
TX
77070
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This is the Willowbrook Mall Cinema that was located in the mall itself near the food court. The cinema opened with the mall in 1981 with 6-screens. It was closed shortly after AMC opened its multi-plex (Willowbrook Mall 24) across the street in 1999 (it has its own page on Cinema Treasures).
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I remember the GCC well….saw some great 80’s classics in that theatre. Movies seemed better when I was young…today they just seem boring. I will definitely check out that GCC sign and see if it’s still there near the railroad tracks. I was thinking it was closer to the corner entrance. (BofA there now at that corner.)Once the new shopping center opened on the opposite side of 249 that was the nail in the coffin for all the nearby theatres. The commons AMC across the street was a cool place to watch them too. You never know what you have until you miss it…the good ol' days…:)
Coryrr1, I completely agree with you. I remember going to this theater as well as the AMC 10 across the street and the AMC Commerce Park 8 numerous times back in the 90’s. Back before stadium seating was the norm, when we all had ground seating and the movies felt like “the movies”. I miss those theaters. If they still existed with the same type of ambiance as back then, I’d gladly go there over a newer one.
Does anyone remember which spot in the Willowbrook Commons is where the AMC 10 used to be? It has been so long that I can not remember where exactly it was in that shopping strip. there.
Does anyone have any pictures of this theater, either from the outside entrance by the food court or inside the actual theater that they could post on here?
Sadly, it seems there are no photos of this GCC anywhere on the internet. Which is a shame since this place was my childhood theater. My parents always took me here in the early 90 s and I can only operate from childhood memory as to what this place looked like. All I remember are entrances from the outside and in the food court as well as a staircase leading to the restrooms and the GCC logo. You can see their coming attractions and feature presentation bumpers on YouTube from that era and I remember seeing those too. I recently visited Houston and stopped by this mall and you can no longer even tell a movie theater was once here. H&M and several other store fronts have taken the space at some point and the mall seems to have been renovated. Surely somebody who worked for GCC or was managing this theater back then has pictures, but they probably aren’t aware of this site. I would hate to think this place has been banished to the corners of our memories.
I agree, Edge1986. It’s a shame that the digital world we live in now, did not exist back then as there would be numerous pictures all over the internet of the places we used to visit when we were growing up. The only old school movie theater in the Houston area that is still open, is the $1 movie theater on 1960 and North Oaks. All of the others have closed and/or been torn down. It’s a shame.
Actually, there are a few of the older theaters in Houston still open. Loews Easton Commons is now Studio Movie Grill Copperfield. Loews Spring is now an updated AMC. I believe the 2nd run theater by NASA is still there, too. I know the old Tomball theater has been renovated. The oldest one, River Oaks, is still alive and well(as it should be). In my opinion, AMC should have never closed the Willowbrook mall theater when they aquired GCC. They should have kept it going as a 2nd run theater. That way, it would have been rebranded as AMC Classic by now and would look the same as it did 30 years ago. Oh well.
No relation to willowbrook mall in wayne, nj
Actually The Mall Opened In 1981.
Pics?
The description of this theatre is incorrect. This is the General Cinema 6 plex that ran inside Willowbrook Mall. The AMC 8 (then 10) was across the street in Willowbrook Commons. AMC took over this theatre as part of the GCC Bankruptcy and ran it for a brief time.
The 8/10 plex is here: http://cinematreasures.org/theaters/68551 The 24 Plex is here: http://cinematreasures.org/theaters/19303