Capri Theatre

dallasmovietheaters on July 28, 2025 at 8:09 am

The Center Point Shopping Center had opened in 1958. During an expansion plan in 1964, this unnamed project was announced by R.C. Cobb Theatres in September of 1964 to the plans of Hallmark & Haney Architects. The $650,000 project became the Capri and was a suburban luxury theater - a trend in cinema exhibition providing upgraded seating (here, rocking chair versions) and projection (here, Cinerama and closed circuit live television, purportedly) with free parking built away from existing and often-fading central business district theaters. Cobb soon announced a first-run drive-in project - the Airport - also to be built at $300,000.

The Capri closed on May 9, 1973 for a major renovation. It re-emerged May 18, 1973 as the “all new” Capri Twin Theatres 1 & 2 for Bowie Theatres. Bowie stops advertising all of its theaters following showtimes of January 29, 1978 of “Oh, God!” and “The Late, Great Planet Earth.”

rivest266 on April 8, 2022 at 8:54 pm

This opened on February 12th, 1965. Grand opening ad posted. Cobb Capri theatre opening 12 Feb 1965, Fri Birmingham Post-Herald (Birmingham, Alabama) Newspapers.com