The newspaper ad may have celebrated the opening on June 17, but it opened on June 13. I work at the home office for the drive-in and all our internal documents show we opened with free movies on June 13, 1979. Newspaper ad from June 13 shows the same. (Uploaded)
This theater was expanded from 10 to 15 screens in 1994. As far as I can tell from Google maps the building still stands and is/was most recently an American Freight store at the back/north end of the mall.
The Southwest Kansas Register had listings in 1972 for a Jerry Lewis Cinema in the Village Square Mall in Dodge City. Is it possible that this Village 8 was an expansion of the original Jerry Lewis Cinema?
As mentioned in earlier comments, this operated for a short time as part of a joint venture between AMC Theatres and Economic Resources Corp. as “Inner City Cinemas” which also operated the Hawthorne Theatre 3. The plan was to build an 8-screen theater at Crenshaw Plaza which never materialized under this ownership but eventually came to life as a 15-screen Magic Johnson Theatre.
The theatre continued to appear in the independent listings of the LA Times, last appearing on February 12, 1998. Co-Op ads listed it as “Flagship’s Hawthorne Plaza 6 Theatres”
As the guy who runs Cinematour, and as a local of Sonoma County, at the time of the theatre’s opening the area was widely considered as part of Windsor and was referred to in most articles as being in Windsor. It is now widely accepted to be part of Santa Rosa.
Display ads in the Arizona Republic showed a Grand Opening for this theatre for December 21, 1988 with showtimes appearing the night before on December 20th. Ads continued until September 30, 2000.
The August 31, 1990 ad posted by Rivest appears to be for the Boomerangs Theatre on Lee Trevino Drive, not at the Northpark Mall.
An article in the June 4, 1992 edition of the El Paso Times reported on the pending opening of the Boomerangs Family Fun Center at Northpark Mall. The article stated this was a four screen theater with 825 seats, an 18-hole miniature golf course, 16 basketball hoops, and a video arcade with 50 games.
When I was an auditor for Century Theatres, I didn’t realize it at the time, but parts of the original lobby still existed and was used as a stock room. I always wondered why a stock room had such high ceilings but really didn’t think about it. Had I known I would’ve taken more pictures, although w/o digital cameras I don’t know how well they would’ve come out.
The Stratford Stadium 14 was a separate theater than the UA/Hoyts Stratford Cinemas. The 14-screen theater was a converted Pathmark supermarket which was converted by Entertainment Cinemas and opened on June 14, 2001 (ad in the Bridgeport Connecticut Post).
The Apple Cinemas Cambridge is not a completely new building, it is the same theatre, just split up and updated/renovated.
Ten years later – this photo is still here. :)
The newspaper ad may have celebrated the opening on June 17, but it opened on June 13. I work at the home office for the drive-in and all our internal documents show we opened with free movies on June 13, 1979. Newspaper ad from June 13 shows the same. (Uploaded)
It was a pretty small theater to begin with but converting to recliners made it even smaller.
The theatre closed as a three-screen theatre.
Yes. They did.
That’s quite a statement. Which two?
This photo belongs to the Georgia Square Value Cinema which was outside the mall.
Google street view suggests this was demolished sometime between April and November of 2022. Judging by the rubble, probably November.
This is an ad for the AMC Fashion Village 8 located outside the same mall. It is not for this General Cinema location.
2014 photo by Adam Martin - from Cinematour.com
This theater was expanded from 10 to 15 screens in 1994. As far as I can tell from Google maps the building still stands and is/was most recently an American Freight store at the back/north end of the mall.
The Southwest Kansas Register had listings in 1972 for a Jerry Lewis Cinema in the Village Square Mall in Dodge City. Is it possible that this Village 8 was an expansion of the original Jerry Lewis Cinema?
Do we really need these AI enhanced photos all over the place? Especially one that places the chairs in the wrong direction/screen at the back?
As mentioned in earlier comments, this operated for a short time as part of a joint venture between AMC Theatres and Economic Resources Corp. as “Inner City Cinemas” which also operated the Hawthorne Theatre 3. The plan was to build an 8-screen theater at Crenshaw Plaza which never materialized under this ownership but eventually came to life as a 15-screen Magic Johnson Theatre.
The theatre continued to appear in the independent listings of the LA Times, last appearing on February 12, 1998. Co-Op ads listed it as “Flagship’s Hawthorne Plaza 6 Theatres”
As the guy who runs Cinematour, and as a local of Sonoma County, at the time of the theatre’s opening the area was widely considered as part of Windsor and was referred to in most articles as being in Windsor. It is now widely accepted to be part of Santa Rosa.
The theatre changed its name some point to Cinemax and has subsequently closed.
Display ads in the Arizona Republic showed a Grand Opening for this theatre for December 21, 1988 with showtimes appearing the night before on December 20th. Ads continued until September 30, 2000.
The last showtimes appear in the El Paso Hearld-Post on March 28, 1996 stating the times are good until April 4.
The August 31, 1990 ad posted by Rivest appears to be for the Boomerangs Theatre on Lee Trevino Drive, not at the Northpark Mall.
An article in the June 4, 1992 edition of the El Paso Times reported on the pending opening of the Boomerangs Family Fun Center at Northpark Mall. The article stated this was a four screen theater with 825 seats, an 18-hole miniature golf course, 16 basketball hoops, and a video arcade with 50 games.
Carmike ad appearing in the Lafayette Daily Advertiser on January 8, 1999 reported that the theatre would shut down on that day.
This has been demolished and is now the site of a self storage facility.
The theatre is not demolished, it is currently shown on Google Maps as “Fright Haven” at the west side of the parking lot.
When I was an auditor for Century Theatres, I didn’t realize it at the time, but parts of the original lobby still existed and was used as a stock room. I always wondered why a stock room had such high ceilings but really didn’t think about it. Had I known I would’ve taken more pictures, although w/o digital cameras I don’t know how well they would’ve come out.
The Stratford Stadium 14 was a separate theater than the UA/Hoyts Stratford Cinemas. The 14-screen theater was a converted Pathmark supermarket which was converted by Entertainment Cinemas and opened on June 14, 2001 (ad in the Bridgeport Connecticut Post).