The Redlands Studio Movie Grill closed along with the rest of SMG’s locations for the COVID-Pandemic on March 17, 2020. SMG declared bankruptcy on October 25, 2020 and began closing locations, The SMG Redlands was removed from the SMG website a year after the pandemic closure in March of 2021 likely making the closure permanent.
The Monrovia Studio Movie Grill closed along with the rest of SMG’s locations for the COVID-Pandemic on March 17, 2020. SMG declared bankruptcy on October 25, 2020 and began closing locations, The SMG Monrovia was removed from the SMG website a year after the pandemic closure in March of 2021 likely making the closure permanent.
Eugene V. Tracy renamed the theatre as the Tracy. Likely ended theatrical and live stage presentations in 1950 at the end of a 25-year lease. It was a non-profit center for church services and Youth for Christ from 1952 until 1957 and then was offered for sale fore $65,000 in 1959.
When the UA Movies 6 opened in 1976, the multiplex was the death knell for many of the area’s long-standing theaters. In 1977, the Towne, Imperial and Belmont ended decades' long runs. Mann closed the Belmont on September 6, 1977 after showings of Martin Scorsese’s “New York, New York.” (An article in the local paper ran on September 20, 1977 mentioned the closure without a date and it likely how the incorrect date of closure is listed as September 19, 1977 in the CinemaTreasures synopsis above. The theatre had already closed and was listed for sale.)
Pacific Theatres closed the Towne due to a roof collapse on January 24, 1977. The final showings were “Never a Dull Moment,” Walt Disney’s “The Three Caballeros” and “The Man Who Skied Down Everest.” Though Pacific was going to make repairs promising a temporary closure, it made the closure permanent that fall offering the property for sale “as is.”
Regal / Cineworld Circuit closed the UA Marketplace in Long Beach along with all of its other locations on March 17, 2020 due to the COVID-pandemic. During the pandemic, Regal decided to make the closure permanent without reopening the venue.
On December 20, 1941, the Palace becomes the News Palace Theatre showing newsreels. In 1952, the theatre switched to the Palace Theatre moniker with Hollywood feature films.
The Jerry Lewis Twin barely got open in October of 1972 as Network Cinema and Jerry Lewis Cinemas would plummet toward bankruptcy. The theatre changed names in 1973 to the Bridgeton Cinema I & II decoupling from the Lewis nameplate along with a lawsuit from its franchisee in April 1973 closing at month’s end. In May of 1973, Arthur Management Theatres Circuit took on the venue along with the Lewis' Central City. They closed there in November of 1973. It became a short-lived independent in the Fall of 1974 closing November 28, 1974 and appears to have sat inactively for a year and a half.
Mid-America Theatres stepped into the lightly-used venue rebranding it as the Bridgewood Cinema on May 14, 1976 with “Jaws” and “Blazing Saddles.” But Mid-America found out what the others already knew - the theater was a dog. And after six months, they quietly bowed out of the former Jerry Lewis Twin turned Bridgewood Cinema on November 28, 1976 with “The Great Scout and Cathouse” on Screen I and a double feature on Screen II “The Groove Tube” and “Monty Python and the Holy Grail.” The building was remodeled as an office space for a grocery company. (Technically, it was never called the Bridgeton Theatre.)
Ingalls Cazel Enterprises (ICE) closed the Pawnee Plaza Theatre (and Arcade) on September 24, 2000 with “Scary Movie,“ "Bait,” The Watcher” and “God’s Army.” A final “Rocky Horror Picture Show” showing technically ran that day as a midnight show. It was then listed on the delinquent tax role with ICE filing for Chapter 7 bankruptcy which liquidated the company.
The Mall Cinema opened March 25, 1970 with Gregory Peck in Marooned. The Mall Cinema closed at the end of a 30-year leasing agreement on January 14, 1999 with “Antz,” “Meet Joe Black” and “Rush Hour.”
The 804-seat Mall Cinema was designed by MBA Engineers Inc. of St. Louis.
Dickinson had subleased the theatre whose lease was 25 years long to an exhibitor of Spanish language films. Then it created the new sublease above with DFG for adult films that was cancelled by the owner of the property. The former sublessee was able to screen the final bookings on November 6, 1983 of “Un Amor en Nuevo York” and “Las Sobrenas del Diablo.” The theatre was then demolished.
This was the cinema located outside the Towne East Square Mall. Royale Theatres took on these two venues from Wallace Theatres in February of 2000. Royale marketed the two theatres as the Towne East Square Cinema VI, super discount operations with $1 films and concessions. Just six months later, Royale closed the Towne East Square Cinema “Inside the Mall” on August 20, 2000.
No longer having six discount screens, the Circuit changed the name of the remaining “Outside the Mall” theatre to the Towne East Square Cinema 4 which continued for about another year. It closed on June 28, 2001 with “Crocodile Dundee 3,” “Chocolat,” “Driven,” and “Kindom Come.” Royale would stagger on with just three locations before bankruptcy ended the circuit in October of 2001.
This was the cinema located inside the Towne East Square Mall. Royale Theatres took on the venue from Wallace Theatres in February of 2000. They soon found what Wallace and Crown already knew: the day of the twin screener mall cinema was all but over. It had marketed the two theatres as the Towne East Square Cinema VI, a super discount operation with $1 films and concessions. Just six months later, Royale closed the Towne East Square Cinema “Inside the Mall” on August 20, 2000 with “Where the Heart Is” and “Frequency.” The Circuit changed the name of the “Outside the Mall” theatre to the Towne East Square Cinema 4 which continued for about another year.
Dickinson tried to upgrade the Northrock to a 20-screen megaplex but couldn’t get the City of Wichita to agree in the late 1990s. It built the neighboring Northrock 14 in 1998. It then tried unsuccessfully to sell the Northrock 6 to a sporting goods company in 2001. It upgraded four of the six screens to stadium seating in 2001. It continued to look for a new owner which it found in 2003. The theatre closed on June 29, 2003 and was converted into office space.
Mr. and Mrs. T.H. Slothower’s Sandra Theatre launched July 23, 1939 with Barbara Hunt in “Wings of the Navy” supported by three selected shorts. Midwest Theatres took on the operation moving it to “move-over” status taking older product from the Orpheum or Miller theaters. The circuit closed it on February 3, 1954 citing an inability to properly convert to widescreen to show CinemaScope films. It closed with “The Greatest Show on Earth.” The local newspaper moved into the former theatre after some remodeling in 1954.
The New Theatre launched May 28, 1938 as a sub-run, double feature discount house with Melvyn Douglas in “Fast Company” and Lew Ayres in “Spring Madness.” It switched names to the Vicotry Theatre after a naming contest. The Victory ran to the end of a 30-year lease with mainstream product. In 1967, it became the Victory Art Cinema running porno chic and edited XXX titles. The cinema closed with a double-feature of adult titles, “The Danish Connection” starring John Holmes and “Back Stage.” It also had some live shows at the very end as performance / celebratory art on October 30, 1977 as the Victory Theatre to say farewell.
A demolition sale in November of 1977 allowed people to buy the original sunflower designed ceiling and many other artifacts uncovered during the razing of the venue including six giant murals and a box of 1950’s era unused 3D glasses. The theater was removed for urban renewal bringing about Naftzger Park
The 30th location of the Chris McGuire Cinema circuit had 483 seats at opening. When McGuire’s chain went out of business in 1971, the theaters went to various other circuits. Gulf States took on this location as the Village 3 Theatre through 1974 Under new operators, it became the Village Triple. It closed October 31, 1978 with “Pretty Baby,” “Wedding” and “Stingray.”
Shopping Center Theaters Circuit launched the Village Theatre on March 20, 1969 with David Niven in “The Impossible Years.” Later in 1969, Shopping Center Theaters merged with Chris McGuire Cinema Circuit which took on the Village. Chris McGuire Cinemas was dissolved in 1971 with multiple operations taken them over. Gulf State Theaters took on the Village Theater. ABC Florida State followed by Plitt Theatres followed with Plitt closing up April of 1982.
The theatre was twinned relaunching May 14, 1982 as the Atlas Twin with “Parasite” in 3D and “Fury of the Succubus.” Drew Knohl repositioned the Village as a sub-run, double-feature 99 cent discount house. Rajukumar Bombaywala took on a screen showing Bollywood fare on a semi-regular basis. The venue closed in January 27, 1994 with “Geronimo” paired with “Robocop 3” and “"American Cyborg” with “Menace II Society.” Rajukumar created the Hollywood Cinema in Hollywood, Florida to run Indian films.
The SMG Chisholm Trail may come back but because of the SMG bankruptcy, it could well be over. If it is a done deal, it opened August 28, 2020 with “Tenet” and a few other films. It closed abruptly on January 31, 2021 after just a five-month run. At opening, it was considered the SMG’s next generation “2.0” prototype venue Two months after opening, however, the circuit filed for bankruptcy during the COVID-19 pandemic that decimated theatrical exhibition. In January of 2021, SMG closed several locations including its DFW locations in Lewisville, Colleyville and the Dallas-based Northwest Highway / former AMC Grand along with locations including Scottsdale, Glendale, Hampton (Virginia), Alpharetta (Georgia), and Copperfield in Houston.
But the Chisholm location sputtered along though closing just two weeks later with four auditoriums in use with “The Croods 2,” “Wonder Woman ‘84,” “The Marksman,” and “News of the World” offered on January 31, 2021. Unlike the permanently closed locations, SMG declared this a “temporary closure”. Notes were posted on the door by the operators about how to get free admission to other SMG locations - none of which were close by. The C-Trail was then removed from the SMG website on March 30, 2021 with the location’s photos and posts removed from its Facebook site - not exactly a ringing endorsement for its 2.0-leaning future.
Opened as a Chris McGuires Cinema, an automated theater franchise of one of the three famous McGuire Sisters singing group. A publicly held company as an OTC stock, the theatre group started in 1969 and went bust in July of 1971.
The Village Theatre opened for McGuire Cinema Circuit in February of 1969 in the Searstown Shopping Center which had a Sears and a Woolworth’s. The theatre raised eyebrows with midnight X-rated films in the 1970s. The theatre was twinned in 1977 becoming the Village Twin Theatre 1 & 2. The theatre played “ET” for five months only closing in November of 1982 for the theatre to be redesigned as a six-plex, the Village Theatres VI relaunching in December of 1982.
The theatres closed briefly when the entire Searstown Shopping Center became the Sabal Palms Plaza in August of 1985 and theatre became the Sabal Palms Cinema VI. It later became the Sabal Palms Luxury Cinemas 6.
The Redlands Studio Movie Grill closed along with the rest of SMG’s locations for the COVID-Pandemic on March 17, 2020. SMG declared bankruptcy on October 25, 2020 and began closing locations, The SMG Redlands was removed from the SMG website a year after the pandemic closure in March of 2021 likely making the closure permanent.
The Monrovia Studio Movie Grill closed along with the rest of SMG’s locations for the COVID-Pandemic on March 17, 2020. SMG declared bankruptcy on October 25, 2020 and began closing locations, The SMG Monrovia was removed from the SMG website a year after the pandemic closure in March of 2021 likely making the closure permanent.
Red Skelton’s “The Yellow Cab Man” proved to the final screening after fire destroyed the theatre on December 12, 1951.
Eugene V. Tracy renamed the theatre as the Tracy. Likely ended theatrical and live stage presentations in 1950 at the end of a 25-year lease. It was a non-profit center for church services and Youth for Christ from 1952 until 1957 and then was offered for sale fore $65,000 in 1959.
When the UA Movies 6 opened in 1976, the multiplex was the death knell for many of the area’s long-standing theaters. In 1977, the Towne, Imperial and Belmont ended decades' long runs. Mann closed the Belmont on September 6, 1977 after showings of Martin Scorsese’s “New York, New York.” (An article in the local paper ran on September 20, 1977 mentioned the closure without a date and it likely how the incorrect date of closure is listed as September 19, 1977 in the CinemaTreasures synopsis above. The theatre had already closed and was listed for sale.)
Pacific Theatres closed the Towne due to a roof collapse on January 24, 1977. The final showings were “Never a Dull Moment,” Walt Disney’s “The Three Caballeros” and “The Man Who Skied Down Everest.” Though Pacific was going to make repairs promising a temporary closure, it made the closure permanent that fall offering the property for sale “as is.”
Mann Theatres closed the Imperial Theatre on August 7, 1977 with a double feature of “A Star is Born” and “The Farmer.”
Regal / Cineworld Circuit closed the UA Marketplace in Long Beach along with all of its other locations on March 17, 2020 due to the COVID-pandemic. During the pandemic, Regal decided to make the closure permanent without reopening the venue.
On December 20, 1941, the Palace becomes the News Palace Theatre showing newsreels. In 1952, the theatre switched to the Palace Theatre moniker with Hollywood feature films.
The Jerry Lewis Twin barely got open in October of 1972 as Network Cinema and Jerry Lewis Cinemas would plummet toward bankruptcy. The theatre changed names in 1973 to the Bridgeton Cinema I & II decoupling from the Lewis nameplate along with a lawsuit from its franchisee in April 1973 closing at month’s end. In May of 1973, Arthur Management Theatres Circuit took on the venue along with the Lewis' Central City. They closed there in November of 1973. It became a short-lived independent in the Fall of 1974 closing November 28, 1974 and appears to have sat inactively for a year and a half.
Mid-America Theatres stepped into the lightly-used venue rebranding it as the Bridgewood Cinema on May 14, 1976 with “Jaws” and “Blazing Saddles.” But Mid-America found out what the others already knew - the theater was a dog. And after six months, they quietly bowed out of the former Jerry Lewis Twin turned Bridgewood Cinema on November 28, 1976 with “The Great Scout and Cathouse” on Screen I and a double feature on Screen II “The Groove Tube” and “Monty Python and the Holy Grail.” The building was remodeled as an office space for a grocery company. (Technically, it was never called the Bridgeton Theatre.)
Ingalls Cazel Enterprises (ICE) closed the Pawnee Plaza Theatre (and Arcade) on September 24, 2000 with “Scary Movie,“ "Bait,” The Watcher” and “God’s Army.” A final “Rocky Horror Picture Show” showing technically ran that day as a midnight show. It was then listed on the delinquent tax role with ICE filing for Chapter 7 bankruptcy which liquidated the company.
The Mall Cinema opened March 25, 1970 with Gregory Peck in Marooned. The Mall Cinema closed at the end of a 30-year leasing agreement on January 14, 1999 with “Antz,” “Meet Joe Black” and “Rush Hour.”
The 804-seat Mall Cinema was designed by MBA Engineers Inc. of St. Louis.
Dickinson had subleased the theatre whose lease was 25 years long to an exhibitor of Spanish language films. Then it created the new sublease above with DFG for adult films that was cancelled by the owner of the property. The former sublessee was able to screen the final bookings on November 6, 1983 of “Un Amor en Nuevo York” and “Las Sobrenas del Diablo.” The theatre was then demolished.
Cinema West closed on September 28, 2003. GracePoint Church took on the venue in 2009.
This was the cinema located outside the Towne East Square Mall. Royale Theatres took on these two venues from Wallace Theatres in February of 2000. Royale marketed the two theatres as the Towne East Square Cinema VI, super discount operations with $1 films and concessions. Just six months later, Royale closed the Towne East Square Cinema “Inside the Mall” on August 20, 2000.
No longer having six discount screens, the Circuit changed the name of the remaining “Outside the Mall” theatre to the Towne East Square Cinema 4 which continued for about another year. It closed on June 28, 2001 with “Crocodile Dundee 3,” “Chocolat,” “Driven,” and “Kindom Come.” Royale would stagger on with just three locations before bankruptcy ended the circuit in October of 2001.
This was the cinema located inside the Towne East Square Mall. Royale Theatres took on the venue from Wallace Theatres in February of 2000. They soon found what Wallace and Crown already knew: the day of the twin screener mall cinema was all but over. It had marketed the two theatres as the Towne East Square Cinema VI, a super discount operation with $1 films and concessions. Just six months later, Royale closed the Towne East Square Cinema “Inside the Mall” on August 20, 2000 with “Where the Heart Is” and “Frequency.” The Circuit changed the name of the “Outside the Mall” theatre to the Towne East Square Cinema 4 which continued for about another year.
Dickinson tried to upgrade the Northrock to a 20-screen megaplex but couldn’t get the City of Wichita to agree in the late 1990s. It built the neighboring Northrock 14 in 1998. It then tried unsuccessfully to sell the Northrock 6 to a sporting goods company in 2001. It upgraded four of the six screens to stadium seating in 2001. It continued to look for a new owner which it found in 2003. The theatre closed on June 29, 2003 and was converted into office space.
Mr. and Mrs. T.H. Slothower’s Sandra Theatre launched July 23, 1939 with Barbara Hunt in “Wings of the Navy” supported by three selected shorts. Midwest Theatres took on the operation moving it to “move-over” status taking older product from the Orpheum or Miller theaters. The circuit closed it on February 3, 1954 citing an inability to properly convert to widescreen to show CinemaScope films. It closed with “The Greatest Show on Earth.” The local newspaper moved into the former theatre after some remodeling in 1954.
The New Theatre launched May 28, 1938 as a sub-run, double feature discount house with Melvyn Douglas in “Fast Company” and Lew Ayres in “Spring Madness.” It switched names to the Vicotry Theatre after a naming contest. The Victory ran to the end of a 30-year lease with mainstream product. In 1967, it became the Victory Art Cinema running porno chic and edited XXX titles. The cinema closed with a double-feature of adult titles, “The Danish Connection” starring John Holmes and “Back Stage.” It also had some live shows at the very end as performance / celebratory art on October 30, 1977 as the Victory Theatre to say farewell.
A demolition sale in November of 1977 allowed people to buy the original sunflower designed ceiling and many other artifacts uncovered during the razing of the venue including six giant murals and a box of 1950’s era unused 3D glasses. The theater was removed for urban renewal bringing about Naftzger Park
Appears to have closed as a discount sub-run for Wometco on June 17, 1990 after showing of “Driving Miss Daisy” and “The First Power.”
The 30th location of the Chris McGuire Cinema circuit had 483 seats at opening. When McGuire’s chain went out of business in 1971, the theaters went to various other circuits. Gulf States took on this location as the Village 3 Theatre through 1974 Under new operators, it became the Village Triple. It closed October 31, 1978 with “Pretty Baby,” “Wedding” and “Stingray.”
Shopping Center Theaters Circuit launched the Village Theatre on March 20, 1969 with David Niven in “The Impossible Years.” Later in 1969, Shopping Center Theaters merged with Chris McGuire Cinema Circuit which took on the Village. Chris McGuire Cinemas was dissolved in 1971 with multiple operations taken them over. Gulf State Theaters took on the Village Theater. ABC Florida State followed by Plitt Theatres followed with Plitt closing up April of 1982.
The theatre was twinned relaunching May 14, 1982 as the Atlas Twin with “Parasite” in 3D and “Fury of the Succubus.” Drew Knohl repositioned the Village as a sub-run, double-feature 99 cent discount house. Rajukumar Bombaywala took on a screen showing Bollywood fare on a semi-regular basis. The venue closed in January 27, 1994 with “Geronimo” paired with “Robocop 3” and “"American Cyborg” with “Menace II Society.” Rajukumar created the Hollywood Cinema in Hollywood, Florida to run Indian films.
The SMG Chisholm Trail may come back but because of the SMG bankruptcy, it could well be over. If it is a done deal, it opened August 28, 2020 with “Tenet” and a few other films. It closed abruptly on January 31, 2021 after just a five-month run. At opening, it was considered the SMG’s next generation “2.0” prototype venue Two months after opening, however, the circuit filed for bankruptcy during the COVID-19 pandemic that decimated theatrical exhibition. In January of 2021, SMG closed several locations including its DFW locations in Lewisville, Colleyville and the Dallas-based Northwest Highway / former AMC Grand along with locations including Scottsdale, Glendale, Hampton (Virginia), Alpharetta (Georgia), and Copperfield in Houston.
But the Chisholm location sputtered along though closing just two weeks later with four auditoriums in use with “The Croods 2,” “Wonder Woman ‘84,” “The Marksman,” and “News of the World” offered on January 31, 2021. Unlike the permanently closed locations, SMG declared this a “temporary closure”. Notes were posted on the door by the operators about how to get free admission to other SMG locations - none of which were close by. The C-Trail was then removed from the SMG website on March 30, 2021 with the location’s photos and posts removed from its Facebook site - not exactly a ringing endorsement for its 2.0-leaning future.
Opened as a Chris McGuires Cinema, an automated theater franchise of one of the three famous McGuire Sisters singing group. A publicly held company as an OTC stock, the theatre group started in 1969 and went bust in July of 1971.
The Village Theatre opened for McGuire Cinema Circuit in February of 1969 in the Searstown Shopping Center which had a Sears and a Woolworth’s. The theatre raised eyebrows with midnight X-rated films in the 1970s. The theatre was twinned in 1977 becoming the Village Twin Theatre 1 & 2. The theatre played “ET” for five months only closing in November of 1982 for the theatre to be redesigned as a six-plex, the Village Theatres VI relaunching in December of 1982.
The theatres closed briefly when the entire Searstown Shopping Center became the Sabal Palms Plaza in August of 1985 and theatre became the Sabal Palms Cinema VI. It later became the Sabal Palms Luxury Cinemas 6.