Cinema 3 Theatres
914 W. Dixie Avenue,
Elizabethtown,
KY
42701
914 W. Dixie Avenue,
Elizabethtown,
KY
42701
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Previous Names: Cinema Theatre, Elizabethtown Cinema
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Located in the heart of Elizabethtown, the Cinema Theatre was located near the Freeman Lake Park in a small single story strip mall. It had a ‘soft’ opening as a single screen on January 18, 1974 with Richard Dreyfus in “American Graffiti” and a grand opening on January 25, 1974 with Robert Redford in “The Way We Were”. It was renamed Elizabethtown Cinema in the late-1970’s. In 1982 it was tripled. It operated until 1989,
Closure was due to the expansion of the nearby Movie Palace Cinemas down the street (which has its own page on Cinema Treasures).
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This started life as the “Cinema Theatre”, opening as a single-screener on January 25, 1974 with Robert Redford in “The Way We Were”, and was operated by the Elizabethtown Amusements Company under the leadership of Bob Enoch who also operated the State Theatre at the time. It was later renamed “Elizabethtown Cinema” by the end of the decade, retaining as a single-screener.
It was tripled a couple of years later (probably around the same time the State Theatre closed as a first-run movie house in 1982), but I don’t know any info about it yet. The Cinema 3 continued to operate until it closed at the same time the nearby Movie Palace Cinemas opened as a 7-screen theater in 1989.
Update: It was tripled in 1982 following the closure of the State Theatre downtown, and in December 1983, the Cinema 3 was taken over by the Ford Theatres chain of Hardinsburg led by the husband-and-wife team of Mr. and Mrs. Dan Ford.
And correction: The Cinema 3 closed in 1989 (not 1998) following the opening of the 6-screen (not 7) Movie Palace Cinemas.
Correction: It never operated as a twin. It was a single-screener at first and then it was tripled on September 3, 1982.
Correction: The Cinema 3 closed in 1989 due to the expansion of the nearby Movie Palace Cinemas.
Correction: This first softly opened on January 18, 1974 with “American Graffiti”, with the official grand opening happening on January 25, 1974 with “The Way We Were”.