AMC Southway 6

AMC’s fifth Houston theatre opened on January 30, 1976, in the Southway shopping center at South Gessner Road and Highway 59. Dubbed the Southway 6, it ran mainstream fare for many years. Business soon started to wane as movie-goers’ tastes changed, as such AMC announced on November 28, 1986, they had spent $50,000 upgrading the experience at the Southway, including adding stereo sound to all auditoriums, with 3 of the auditoriums being Dolby, a new lobby, and adding new cupholders to the seats. Even with the interior and presentation upgrades, it failed to attract more business in the long run, resulting in the Southway becoming a dollar house in the late-1980’s. AMC made the decision to close the theatre on December 27, 1995 as it was no longer financially feasible to keep the facility open.

Little information – and no photos – seem to exist of this theatre. Today, the space has been gutted out and was formerly a Factory-2-U, an off-brand clothing store, and was recently renovated into a DD’s Discounts.

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