LaPlace Twin Cinemas
1026 E. Airline Highway,
LaPlace,
LA
70068
1026 E. Airline Highway,
LaPlace,
LA
70068
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Previously operated by: Chris McGuire Cinemas, WRNO Theatres
Previous Names: LaPlace Cinema
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The LaPlace Cinema was opened by Chris McGuire Cinemas on April 9, 1970 with Barbra Streisand in “Funny Girl” & Mia Farrow in Rosemary’s Baby" The twin screen theatre could accommodate 380 patrons. In the late 1980’s it was renamed LaPlace Dollar Cinema. The LaPlace Twin Cinemas was closed on January 14, 1992 with the animated feature “An American Tail:Fieval Goes West” & Anna Chlumsky in “My Girl”.
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Chris McGuire Cinemas opened the LaPlace Twin Cinema on April 9, 1970 with “Funny Girl” in Screen 1 and “Rosemary’s Baby” in Screen 2. It was later operated by WRNO Theatres, and finally MI Theatres. During the late-1980s, it was renamed the LaPlace Dollar Cinema.
The LaPlace Twin Cinemas closed for the final time on January 14, 1992 with “An American Tail: Fievel Goes West” in Screen 1 and “My Girl” in Screen 2, when the MI Theatres chain opened the LaPlace Cinema 5 nearby the following day.
This was also the replacement of the nearby LaPlace Theatre, which closed four days prior to the LaPlace Twin Cinema’s opening.
This started life as the Riverlands Cinema I & II. One of its auditoriums has eight-track quadrophonic sound with a grand total of 74 speakers inside that auditorium. Unfortunately the Riverlands Cinema did receive a short closure in July 1981 because of lease disagreements. Owner Edgar Roussel immediately planned to build another movie theater elsewhere in LaPlace.
WRNO Theatres, named after then-rock station WRNO-FM in New Orleans (now a news/talk station), took over the theater, and the twin-screener reopened its doors as the LaPlace Twin Cinemas on January 21, 1982 with “Raiders Of The Lost Ark” in Screen 1 and “Neighbors” in Screen 2.