This theater is about to receive recliners. While this is good to hear, I just wish Regal would preserve the murals found in some of the rooms. That’s one of the few downsides of these recliner retrofits.
AMC has recently completed a major renovation of this theater in which they installed recliners, expanded the concession stand, and added a MacGuffins bar.
It turns out that most, if not all of the complex has been demolished in order to accommodate the L.A. Fitness. That just makes this theater’s closure even sadder.
I wonder if Cobb took this theater over from Cinemark. From what I’ve seen, some of the auditoriums here have a completely white ceiling as well as metal sconces, both of which were features of Cinemark’s oldest theaters.
Capacity-wise, this is fairly close to the size of room the IMAX at Sawgrass is housed in. (471 seats)
I heard about how this IMAX screen was originally equipped with a “compact” 70mm projector. They should’ve held on to that for screenings that called for it.
I just remembered- there are “nooks” in the older portion of the theater between Auditoriums 13 & 14 and between Auditoriums 15 & 16 that contain vending machines and standees. It makes me wonder if those areas may have housed satellite stands from when this theater had 18-screens. Next time I come here, I’ll get a pic of one of those areas.
When I first came here in 1999, I thought this facade was supposed to resemble some kind of wacky rocket pad. Granted, I was only 3-years-old at the time, so I didn’t know any better. After I became more oriented with Art Deco architecture, I realized that it was merely a marquee of that style. This still stands as one of my favorite pieces of theater architecture.
Can’t wait to see those pics! I’m curious as to how this theater will compare to the one in Sawgrass since this one opened around the same time they were finishing the renovation/expansion of that theater.
Instead of a Laurel & Hardy mural, they had a mural of Chaplin walking off into the sunset. If that auditorium is in between shows next time I go there, I’ll try to get a pic of those.
Theater 14 at Sawgrass 23 has an early version of this mural (in fact, it’s the only room that has the original 1991 murals intact) in which it is essentially a mirror image, and it appears to be taking place at sunset. The framing around it is similar to this mural: http://www.cinematour.com/picview.php?db=us&id=76237
As someone who frequents this theater, I can’t thank you enough for finding this!
This theater is about to receive recliners. While this is good to hear, I just wish Regal would preserve the murals found in some of the rooms. That’s one of the few downsides of these recliner retrofits.
AMC has recently completed a major renovation of this theater in which they installed recliners, expanded the concession stand, and added a MacGuffins bar.
It turns out that most, if not all of the complex has been demolished in order to accommodate the L.A. Fitness. That just makes this theater’s closure even sadder.
I wonder if Cobb took this theater over from Cinemark. From what I’ve seen, some of the auditoriums here have a completely white ceiling as well as metal sconces, both of which were features of Cinemark’s oldest theaters.
Theater update: www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sq1xQ429t4 Everything still seems to be in place despite being abandoned for almost two years.
The seats here remind me of the ones at Sawgrass.
Always good to see functioning masking.
Really strange placement. Almost looks like an emergency exit.
The configuration of this room is similar that of screens 3 & 13 at Royal Palm, albeit with a different color scheme.
Do you think that switch was probably used to trigger the lit-up parts of the mural?
On that other mural, what was there in place of the pond?
Even though I’m more of a mural person, I will say that this is some cool paneling!
Capacity-wise, this is fairly close to the size of room the IMAX at Sawgrass is housed in. (471 seats)
I heard about how this IMAX screen was originally equipped with a “compact” 70mm projector. They should’ve held on to that for screenings that called for it.
I just remembered- there are “nooks” in the older portion of the theater between Auditoriums 13 & 14 and between Auditoriums 15 & 16 that contain vending machines and standees. It makes me wonder if those areas may have housed satellite stands from when this theater had 18-screens. Next time I come here, I’ll get a pic of one of those areas.
When I first came here in 1999, I thought this facade was supposed to resemble some kind of wacky rocket pad. Granted, I was only 3-years-old at the time, so I didn’t know any better. After I became more oriented with Art Deco architecture, I realized that it was merely a marquee of that style. This still stands as one of my favorite pieces of theater architecture.
Can’t wait to see those pics! I’m curious as to how this theater will compare to the one in Sawgrass since this one opened around the same time they were finishing the renovation/expansion of that theater.
Nice entrances.
Instead of a Laurel & Hardy mural, they had a mural of Chaplin walking off into the sunset. If that auditorium is in between shows next time I go there, I’ll try to get a pic of those.
I didn’t know the chains installed the preshow system at their sub-run theaters. I always thought those kind of theaters would only use slides.
Thankfully the theater was unharmed, but I think we should all be grateful that no one got harmed by the tornado.
Theater 14 at Sawgrass 23 has an early version of this mural (in fact, it’s the only room that has the original 1991 murals intact) in which it is essentially a mirror image, and it appears to be taking place at sunset. The framing around it is similar to this mural: http://www.cinematour.com/picview.php?db=us&id=76237
Compared to some of the other theaters Regal built in the Nashville area, this theater seems to have a more “normal” layout.
This is a great start! Do you plan on labeling the concession areas, Restrooms, etc.?
Because of the cool entrance, I forgive this theater for not having murals. lol