It originally housed 1,340 seats according to an April 2012 article, but was already downgraded to 977 seats in 2013 when the ship underwent a facelift.
Is there other films that got caught on fire that comes along with its print of “Trouble For Two”? I’m very sure a few short subjects were also involved into some “Trouble”.
I’m also very sure that the nearby six-screen Baytown Cinemas 6 and the four-screen Baytown Cinema 10 became Plitt theaters around the same time as the Goose Creek. Both of the nearby theaters are now part of the Baytown Premiere Cinema 11.
Also Dallas, did the Goose Creek became part of the Cineplex Odeon chain after Plitt’s merger? I’m very sure they did, alongside the other two theaters I’ve mentioned above.
The Ark Vue Drive-In closed after the 1981 season, likely due to both mortgage issues and as well as the arrest of its operators on two misdemeanor charges of promoting late-night obscenity. On September 11, 1981, a triple feature was scheduled with only the first one being a normal first-run movie. “The Blue Lagoon” was the last normal film that was screened at the Ark Vue at sunset, but the last two movies afterward are X-rated films.
This led the B&B Theatres chain, who owns the Ark Vue in its last years of operation, to cease and ban X-rated movies from any theater or drive-in. The operators were later sued for its foreclosure in November 1982 by the Home National Bank in a petition filed with a local district court.
The 166 Drive-In opened its gates on August 10, 1948 with Preston Foster in “Lady From Cheyenne” along with an unnamed cartoon and a newsreel. It appears that the 166 Drive-In may’ve closed after the 1964 season after a short brief operation by Clara Bullard.
Twinned and renamed “Eric I-95 Twin Theatre” on December 21, 1984. It was originally plan to reopen as the “Fox Twin” but that name was dropped. Its most likely that the I-95 Twin closed in the late-1980s.
Langhorne also had another Eric theater nearby called the “Eric Lincoln Plaza Twin” which will have its own CT page soon.
The Eric Penn-Jersey Theatre opened its doors as a single-screener on December 22, 1967 with Walt Disney’s “The Jungle Book” and “Charlie The Lonesome Cougar”. It was twinned on June 25, 1976, renaming it “Eric Twin Penn-Jersey”, and was tripled in June 1983 after one of its auditoriums was divided and was renamed “Eric 3 Penn-Jersey”.
United Artists later operated the Eric 3 Penn-Jersey during its final years of operation. It was lastly known as “UA Movies at Penn-Jersey” before closing for the final time on September 5, 1996.
The Towne Theatre opened its doors by the Fox Theatres (Reading) chain on June 14, 1954 with Marilyn Monroe in “River Of No Return” with no extra shorts, but before the show comes along with a special stage show that featured three acts, and after the acts comes an opening statement by Fox Theatres (Reading) president Melvin J. Fox.
The first act was named “The Hollys” featuring Vaughn Monroe who had then-recently returned from a tour. The second act contains a male instrumental group called “The Buck Trio” that remakes then-recent Top 40 hits including “You Can’t Make Your Heart Stop Loving” and “Chapel In The Valley”, and the third act is an unnamed vocalist who would later perform with the Robin Hood Dell Orchestra the following month.
The Towne Theatre was first managed by Mrs. Mary E. Hawkins, who was also the secretary to James H. Carmine, the vice-president of the Philco Corporation for 16 years. She operated the Towne Theatre for a short time, and by the following year, the theater was taken over by George Mest of Levittown, who had a really dark story later in his life shown below.
Shortly before 11:00 AM on September 29, 1958, an unexpectedly tragedy happened inside the theater when the manager of the theater, then-32-year-old George Mest, attempted to hang himself by leaping out of a ladder and hang from a girder rope in the Towne Theatre’s lobby which at the time was advertising its scheduled showing of the Lewis-Martin comedy “Scared Stiff” and James Stewart’s “Spirit Of St. Louis”.
Fortunately that failed when Mest’s 230-pound body broke the rope and fell to the ground. Tullytown Police Chief John B. Walterick arrived on scene but Mest shouted “CHIEF! ARREST ME! I TRIED TO HANG MYSELF!!” Walterick rushed downstairs from the police station and saw Mest collapsed in the ground as he reached towards him. He was conscious but replied again to the officer that he attempted to hang himself. Mest was taken by Bucks County Rescue Squad to the Lower Bucks County Hospital for treatment.
Authorities reported that Walterick went back inside the theater and found a 3⁄8-inch of manila hemp measuring around 20ft long laying on the floor near the projection room. Walterick then replied that the girder measures 12ft from the ground and Mest had a severe red mark on Mest’s neck when he collapsed in front of the Tullytown police station for questioning before picking up Mest and carried him upstairs to a chair. It was eventually reported that he attempted suicide after three separate incidents, in which his camera was stolen, Mest’s house was burned to the ground, and $1,142.63 being stolen in his office at the Towne Theatre after escaping from police custody in Tullytown, all-in-one the previous day.
According to authorities, two Levittown boys (one from U.S. Army’s AWOL in Fort Dix, New Jersey), 16-year-old Ronald Jackson and 17-year-old Michael Buck, were arrested in Philadelphia during a traffic stop between an officer and their 1941 Ford. Police said that the boys who had parked their car in the Stonybrook section of Levittown near the Towne Theatre were walking to the theater when a Tullytown Police car came up on scene, and circled the area near the theater several times. The youths were able to hide in a small building adjacent to the theater. During questioning, Jackson said that once the police car left, he and Buck used a ladder on the side of the building and were able to climb to the roof of the theater.
Buck, the one from the Army, got into the theater by a single way of an unlocked trapdoor on the roof and then let Jackson in by a side door. The boys said that they removed the lock from the manager’s office but found no money. They then chiseled the lock off the door of the office containing the theater’s safe, which have an estimate cost of $1,142.63 which they found in the safe located on a shelf. Jackson told police that when they found the amount of money, they considered about only taking a small amount of it, but Jackson told police that they then figured out that they would be in just as much trouble for taking only a small amount of money from a large amount. After the burglary, the two drove in their 1941 Ford all night.
It wasn’t until the following day, on September 28 at 9:00 AM, when Philadelphia Police officer Gerald Blumberg pulled them over for a traffic stop and a routine check. He noticed that he was about to let the two boys go when he noticed Jackson’s jacket on the back seat of the car. He walked to the back side and found all the money hiding underneath the jacket. The two boys were placed under arrest and were turned over back to Tullytown Chief Walterick.
Actual closing date is May 22, 1989 with “Three Fugitives” in Screen 1 and “Beaches” in Screen 2. It originally closed permanently but GCC announced their final closure on July 30 because of both deterioration and lack of business.
The Flick Cinema once suffered damage from a fire on August 1, 1988, causing an estimate $40,000 in damages. Unfortunately, the theater became national headlines after being reported that the theater was targeted and the fire was set off by an arsonist as a warning on not allowing to both show and advertise the scheduled movie “The Last Temptation Of Christ”. Manager Joe Matthews from both the Flick Cinema and Commonwealth Theatres replied to local media saying he found notes next to his theater, in which those notes were turned over to the Pine Bluff Police Department and its block signage red letters actually spelt “The Lord’s Servant” following the fire.
This was in connection of the movie’s protest around the states, but for the fire at the Flick was completely unconfirmed that it was related. The fire also damaged its neighboring building housed by Pine Bluff Commercial. After a few days of investigating, the Flick Cinema reopened a few days after the fire.
The State Theatre did had a very unique history because of its “movie studio focus” and not on placing a top hit one after another.
The State Theatre at first primarily showed Columbia films (yes because of its slogan), but would also add films by RKO, United Artists, and Selznick into its lineup during World War II. By the end of World War II, the State Theatre primarily showed RKO movies (including titles by its predecessor Liberty Films) despite the State Theatre being independently-operated and not owned by the chain, but the State Theatre would eventually bring back its original Columbia formula in 1949.
It continued into the 1950s alongside its CinemaScope installation during its boom, but it wasn’t until 1956 when the State Theatre tossed the table. The State Theatre then primarily screened United Artists films, and one of those titles ran at the State is the smash “Around The World In 80 Days” that same year. Another smash that ran during its time with UA is “West Side Story” in the Summer of 1962.
NOTE: The State Theatre was NOT operated by United Artists themselves at the time. It was independently-operated and was the management’s choice of movies made by the studio. It was definitely NOT owned by the circuit themselves.
Finally in the mid-1960s, the State Theatre began showing MGM films until its closure on September 7, 1971 with “Fortune And Men’s Eyes” due to storm damage.
The Chisholm did attract some controversy in 1990, when the theater staff booked the NC-17 movie “The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, And Her Lover”. They dropped it after only two weeks, due to the theater having under pressure from residents, including the then-mayor of Plano despite him not seeing the movie.
The mayor concluded on the basis of its original rating that it wasn’t appropriate for the city of Plano. The mayor even suggested that officials have went to the city council to pass a law prohibiting future NC-17 rated films from being screened in Plano, but unfortunately this did not last long, as “Showgirls” did play at the Chisholm five years later.
During its final year of operation, the Hope Cinema briefly went under the name “New Hope Cinema” for almost a year screening both first-run and classic movies until its closure on August 27, 2024 with one last run of “E.T.” due to poor business, marking the end of almost 80 years of operation since the theater’s opening on December 19, 1944 as the Hope Theatre.
The theater immediately went up for sale but Mayor Victor Smith replied that the district isn’t planning to buy the beloved-but-unprofitable cultural institution. Smith gave special gratitude to the operators by applauding to them who support the operations of the theater.
It originally housed 399 seats according to an April 2012 article, but was already downgraded to 278 seats in 2013 when the ship underwent a facelift.
It originally housed 1,340 seats according to an April 2012 article, but was already downgraded to 977 seats in 2013 when the ship underwent a facelift.
Is there other films that got caught on fire that comes along with its print of “Trouble For Two”? I’m very sure a few short subjects were also involved into some “Trouble”.
And Do, you’re completely wrong. It actually twinned on December 21, 1984 and reopened with “Dune” in Screen 1 and “Runaway” in Screen 2.
I’m also very sure that the nearby six-screen Baytown Cinemas 6 and the four-screen Baytown Cinema 10 became Plitt theaters around the same time as the Goose Creek. Both of the nearby theaters are now part of the Baytown Premiere Cinema 11.
Also Dallas, did the Goose Creek became part of the Cineplex Odeon chain after Plitt’s merger? I’m very sure they did, alongside the other two theaters I’ve mentioned above.
Its likely that the New Theatre name probably didn’t last long. It may’ve renamed the Oak Theatre shortly after opening.
The Ark Vue Drive-In closed after the 1981 season, likely due to both mortgage issues and as well as the arrest of its operators on two misdemeanor charges of promoting late-night obscenity. On September 11, 1981, a triple feature was scheduled with only the first one being a normal first-run movie. “The Blue Lagoon” was the last normal film that was screened at the Ark Vue at sunset, but the last two movies afterward are X-rated films.
This led the B&B Theatres chain, who owns the Ark Vue in its last years of operation, to cease and ban X-rated movies from any theater or drive-in. The operators were later sued for its foreclosure in November 1982 by the Home National Bank in a petition filed with a local district court.
The 166 Drive-In opened its gates on August 10, 1948 with Preston Foster in “Lady From Cheyenne” along with an unnamed cartoon and a newsreel. It appears that the 166 Drive-In may’ve closed after the 1964 season after a short brief operation by Clara Bullard.
It actually opened with “Tarzan’s Peril” (not “Challenge”) as well as Walt Disney’s “Beaver Valley”.
Twinned and renamed “Eric I-95 Twin Theatre” on December 21, 1984. It was originally plan to reopen as the “Fox Twin” but that name was dropped. Its most likely that the I-95 Twin closed in the late-1980s.
Langhorne also had another Eric theater nearby called the “Eric Lincoln Plaza Twin” which will have its own CT page soon.
Closed on January 21, 1993.
The Eric Penn-Jersey Theatre opened its doors as a single-screener on December 22, 1967 with Walt Disney’s “The Jungle Book” and “Charlie The Lonesome Cougar”. It was twinned on June 25, 1976, renaming it “Eric Twin Penn-Jersey”, and was tripled in June 1983 after one of its auditoriums was divided and was renamed “Eric 3 Penn-Jersey”.
United Artists later operated the Eric 3 Penn-Jersey during its final years of operation. It was lastly known as “UA Movies at Penn-Jersey” before closing for the final time on September 5, 1996.
With the same event?
Opened on September 28, 1991 as the Cinema World State College 6.
Correction: It was renamed the Landers Theatre at the end of 1930.
The Towne Theatre opened its doors by the Fox Theatres (Reading) chain on June 14, 1954 with Marilyn Monroe in “River Of No Return” with no extra shorts, but before the show comes along with a special stage show that featured three acts, and after the acts comes an opening statement by Fox Theatres (Reading) president Melvin J. Fox.
The first act was named “The Hollys” featuring Vaughn Monroe who had then-recently returned from a tour. The second act contains a male instrumental group called “The Buck Trio” that remakes then-recent Top 40 hits including “You Can’t Make Your Heart Stop Loving” and “Chapel In The Valley”, and the third act is an unnamed vocalist who would later perform with the Robin Hood Dell Orchestra the following month.
The Towne Theatre was first managed by Mrs. Mary E. Hawkins, who was also the secretary to James H. Carmine, the vice-president of the Philco Corporation for 16 years. She operated the Towne Theatre for a short time, and by the following year, the theater was taken over by George Mest of Levittown, who had a really dark story later in his life shown below.
Shortly before 11:00 AM on September 29, 1958, an unexpectedly tragedy happened inside the theater when the manager of the theater, then-32-year-old George Mest, attempted to hang himself by leaping out of a ladder and hang from a girder rope in the Towne Theatre’s lobby which at the time was advertising its scheduled showing of the Lewis-Martin comedy “Scared Stiff” and James Stewart’s “Spirit Of St. Louis”.
Fortunately that failed when Mest’s 230-pound body broke the rope and fell to the ground. Tullytown Police Chief John B. Walterick arrived on scene but Mest shouted “CHIEF! ARREST ME! I TRIED TO HANG MYSELF!!” Walterick rushed downstairs from the police station and saw Mest collapsed in the ground as he reached towards him. He was conscious but replied again to the officer that he attempted to hang himself. Mest was taken by Bucks County Rescue Squad to the Lower Bucks County Hospital for treatment.
Authorities reported that Walterick went back inside the theater and found a 3⁄8-inch of manila hemp measuring around 20ft long laying on the floor near the projection room. Walterick then replied that the girder measures 12ft from the ground and Mest had a severe red mark on Mest’s neck when he collapsed in front of the Tullytown police station for questioning before picking up Mest and carried him upstairs to a chair. It was eventually reported that he attempted suicide after three separate incidents, in which his camera was stolen, Mest’s house was burned to the ground, and $1,142.63 being stolen in his office at the Towne Theatre after escaping from police custody in Tullytown, all-in-one the previous day.
According to authorities, two Levittown boys (one from U.S. Army’s AWOL in Fort Dix, New Jersey), 16-year-old Ronald Jackson and 17-year-old Michael Buck, were arrested in Philadelphia during a traffic stop between an officer and their 1941 Ford. Police said that the boys who had parked their car in the Stonybrook section of Levittown near the Towne Theatre were walking to the theater when a Tullytown Police car came up on scene, and circled the area near the theater several times. The youths were able to hide in a small building adjacent to the theater. During questioning, Jackson said that once the police car left, he and Buck used a ladder on the side of the building and were able to climb to the roof of the theater.
Buck, the one from the Army, got into the theater by a single way of an unlocked trapdoor on the roof and then let Jackson in by a side door. The boys said that they removed the lock from the manager’s office but found no money. They then chiseled the lock off the door of the office containing the theater’s safe, which have an estimate cost of $1,142.63 which they found in the safe located on a shelf. Jackson told police that when they found the amount of money, they considered about only taking a small amount of it, but Jackson told police that they then figured out that they would be in just as much trouble for taking only a small amount of money from a large amount. After the burglary, the two drove in their 1941 Ford all night.
It wasn’t until the following day, on September 28 at 9:00 AM, when Philadelphia Police officer Gerald Blumberg pulled them over for a traffic stop and a routine check. He noticed that he was about to let the two boys go when he noticed Jackson’s jacket on the back seat of the car. He walked to the back side and found all the money hiding underneath the jacket. The two boys were placed under arrest and were turned over back to Tullytown Chief Walterick.
The Chuck E. Cheese’s on the former site of the Ritchie Cinemas 1-2-3 opened on November 7, 1990.
Actual closing date is May 22, 1989 with “Three Fugitives” in Screen 1 and “Beaches” in Screen 2. It originally closed permanently but GCC announced their final closure on July 30 because of both deterioration and lack of business.
Taken between June 24 and 27, 1970.
The Flick Cinema once suffered damage from a fire on August 1, 1988, causing an estimate $40,000 in damages. Unfortunately, the theater became national headlines after being reported that the theater was targeted and the fire was set off by an arsonist as a warning on not allowing to both show and advertise the scheduled movie “The Last Temptation Of Christ”. Manager Joe Matthews from both the Flick Cinema and Commonwealth Theatres replied to local media saying he found notes next to his theater, in which those notes were turned over to the Pine Bluff Police Department and its block signage red letters actually spelt “The Lord’s Servant” following the fire.
This was in connection of the movie’s protest around the states, but for the fire at the Flick was completely unconfirmed that it was related. The fire also damaged its neighboring building housed by Pine Bluff Commercial. After a few days of investigating, the Flick Cinema reopened a few days after the fire.
The State Theatre did had a very unique history because of its “movie studio focus” and not on placing a top hit one after another.
The State Theatre at first primarily showed Columbia films (yes because of its slogan), but would also add films by RKO, United Artists, and Selznick into its lineup during World War II. By the end of World War II, the State Theatre primarily showed RKO movies (including titles by its predecessor Liberty Films) despite the State Theatre being independently-operated and not owned by the chain, but the State Theatre would eventually bring back its original Columbia formula in 1949.
It continued into the 1950s alongside its CinemaScope installation during its boom, but it wasn’t until 1956 when the State Theatre tossed the table. The State Theatre then primarily screened United Artists films, and one of those titles ran at the State is the smash “Around The World In 80 Days” that same year. Another smash that ran during its time with UA is “West Side Story” in the Summer of 1962.
Finally in the mid-1960s, the State Theatre began showing MGM films until its closure on September 7, 1971 with “Fortune And Men’s Eyes” due to storm damage.
The Chisholm did attract some controversy in 1990, when the theater staff booked the NC-17 movie “The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, And Her Lover”. They dropped it after only two weeks, due to the theater having under pressure from residents, including the then-mayor of Plano despite him not seeing the movie.
The mayor concluded on the basis of its original rating that it wasn’t appropriate for the city of Plano. The mayor even suggested that officials have went to the city council to pass a law prohibiting future NC-17 rated films from being screened in Plano, but unfortunately this did not last long, as “Showgirls” did play at the Chisholm five years later.
Closed on October 26, 1986.
Opened on August 11, 1995.
The Hope Cinema is closed.
During its final year of operation, the Hope Cinema briefly went under the name “New Hope Cinema” for almost a year screening both first-run and classic movies until its closure on August 27, 2024 with one last run of “E.T.” due to poor business, marking the end of almost 80 years of operation since the theater’s opening on December 19, 1944 as the Hope Theatre.
The theater immediately went up for sale but Mayor Victor Smith replied that the district isn’t planning to buy the beloved-but-unprofitable cultural institution. Smith gave special gratitude to the operators by applauding to them who support the operations of the theater.