Millcreek Mall Cinema 3
860 Millcreek Mall,
Erie,
PA
16565
860 Millcreek Mall,
Erie,
PA
16565
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Opened by General Cinema Corporation on November 9, 1975. Later taken over by Cinemark, this 3-screen cinema closed on March 20, 1997.
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I saw Wierd Science here, the only movie I saw at this theatre. A few years later I <gag> Cowboy Way at the Milcreek 6. Recently I saw RV at the “Cinemark Milcreek Cinema 6”. I thought it was a better theatre for RV than Cowboy Way. Then again, the tickets for RV cost a whopping $1. And the theatre was packed.
Looks like these theatres were Cinemark at closing, Thursday, March 20, 1997. And it looks like Tinseltown opened on June 28, 1996. I didn’t even know about that theatre until 2001. I guess I am not as up on cinemas as I thought.
I wouldn’t call some theater built in a shopping center since 1970 “classic”, especially in a spectacle of urban spawl like the “Millcreek Mall”—I think theaters like the Warner or the Strand are what this site is after.
Millcreek Mall Cinema I-II-III during 1977 had a 26-week run of the original “Star Wars” concurrent with a booking at Cinema World.
Following its completion, there was a moveover run at Eastway, where “Star Wars” ran another 37 weeks for a total Erie run of 63 weeks. Pretty remarkable for a city the size of Erie.
Ah, so many fond memories of Rocky Horror. I can’t believe they acutally let us throw hot dogs around the theater.
I’d agree, The Millcreek Mall Cinema 3 isn’t exactly a classic cinema treasure… Still, as personal history goes? I saw Star Wars there on opening day when I was 10. In fact, it’s where I saw each of the original trilogy as they came out. I saw Alien there. I saw Life of Brian and Meaning of Life there. Convoy, Jaws 2, Coma, High Anxiety and The Pink Panther Strikes again. Star Trek: the Motion Picture. And Dark Crystal. I saw a midnight show of Ralph Bakshi’s Wizards there— I was like, 12 and it felt really cosmopolitan, cultured and a little dangerous to go to a midnight show.
Well the area where Cinema III was is now a FYE video store and the rest of the area is the new food court. Very nice actually. Progress…
The caption is wrong. This is a pic of the Millcreek 6. This was slightly remodeled around 2008 with a new carpet. That means that the vomit stain I left there is gone. I ate undercooked chicken and rice, and during the movie “The Waterboy” I know it was coming back up. I started to get tunnel vision when I hit the swinging doors and hit hard on both knees as I went down in the entrance, within 15 feet of the men’s room. I thought I was gonna die. But I felt great afterwards and finished watching the movie!
For a long time This was a $1 theater with $$.50 tuesdays. Since the banker bailout it has gone up.
I did the “Time Warp” dance at the Rocky Horror show back in the day at the 3 screen inside the mall. I also fell asleep during Dirty Dancing Midnight movies. I should have did what my friend did which was get up and see Pink Floyd’s The Wall in the other midnight showing.
This theater closed down on March 20th, 1997.
The theater was known as Millcreek Cinema 3.