University Square Cinema I, II & III

300 University Drive,
College Station, TX 77845

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Previously operated by: ABC Interstate Theatres, Plitt Theatres

Architects: William Kneer

Firms: Kneer & Hamm

Previous Names: Cinema Twin I & II, ABC Cinema Twin I & II, Plitt Cinemas

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The Culpepper Development team purchased the Circle Drive-In at the corner of University Drive and S. College Avenue and in 1971 created the University Square Shopping Center. Anchored by Skaggs-Albertson and Mitchell’s Department Store, complete with hat and cane inside the newly opened Skaggs-Albertson. In Stage Two of the center, College Station / Brazos County was getting its first hardtop theater in 33 years when Texas National Theatres Circuit announced the Twin Cinema I & II. It would be fully automated with Eprad equipment and architects were Kneer & Hamm from Fort Worth. It was the circuit’s sixth multi-screen and their strategy was to target cities which had aging one-screen downtown theaters.

The theater opened August 10, 1973 with Walt Disney’s “Mary Poppins” and Ryan & Tatum O'Neal in “Paper Moon”. Cinemas I and II had identical 350-seat auditoriums. Just three months later, the venerable Interstate Theatres Circuit took on the location on November 23, 1973. It was a period when the circuit was ABC/Interstate and the venue was named the ABC Twin Cinema.

The theatre became a Plitt Theatres when Plitt Holding Circuit took over the ABC/Interstate Circuit in 1978 for $49 million. The theater reportedly expanded to a third screen. After Plitt ceased operations, the theater continued to its 20th anniversary. The theatre closed and was partially repurposed for a neighboring business. The entire shopping center was razed.

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rivest266
rivest266 on October 19, 2023 at 10:43 pm

3 screens on May 27th, 1983. Ad posted.

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