Comments about Cinemart in Wilmington, DE

ronnie21 on July 17, 2011 at 4:41 pm

hey, jwheckert? It would be cool if we got a hold of some other ads from 1980 to see what other movies played at the cinemart in its last months… specially summer of 1980.. Love your ads you got already. cool rare stuff. http://www.flickr.com/photos/57086731@N05/sets/72157626704767935/with/5768073477/

ronnie21 on July 16, 2011 at 9:32 pm

its funny how gory and violent movies started to become by 1980…Alot of these movies that were sown in 1980 could never be shown these day’s… specially “The Exterminator”

ronnie21 on July 15, 2011 at 7:07 pm

The way these pics of the cinemart were taken reminded me of like blair witch project or something. very eerie and neat..

ronnie21 on July 15, 2011 at 4:18 pm

wow, thanks… hey, jweckert, the toilet paper thats shown in the cinemart photos you took, do you think thats the same paper from 1980???

jwheckert on July 15, 2011 at 9:29 am

Ronnie, Cinema center 3 is in the Newark Shopping center. It’s still in operation. was a former budco twin. The second house was split 60/40 resulting in a very narrow 3rd theater much like the AMC Concord Mall II.

ronnie21 on July 14, 2011 at 1:25 pm

no info on cinema center 3. claims it was in Delaware shopping center??

ronnie21 on July 12, 2011 at 1:54 pm

Also, looks like over the years people smashed up the place. Wonder if that couch was there since 1980?

ronnie21 on July 12, 2011 at 1:53 pm

wow, cool, iam so interested in this theater. Hey, couple questions, was the bathrooms upstairs or downstairs.. and i noticed that in the men’s bathroom toilet, there is still hanging toilet paper , is that paper from 1980??? cause it looks really newer? Also, graffiti is on the side wall now is gone, and the box office glass was there in 06 is now boarded up. Wish they would have left the Exterminator poster in the frame. ha ha.. Do you know of any other movies that were showing there in 1980??? Exterminator was released around sept 19th 1980, so this is when the theater was closed. Can’t believe its still standing after all these years..

jwheckert on July 12, 2011 at 10:23 am

I took them in May of ‘06. I first started paying attention to the theater in 2000. I’d been driving past it for my whole life on the way to Baker Jeep just down the road. In April of 06 the front door was wide open and I just walked In, It was dark and so I came back with a flash light. My old boss said he’d snuck in too sometime back in '88 at that time the seats were still there. As you can see not much left of this 1,000 seat 70mm show palace. One of the fire exits in the auditorium should still be accessible as I believe it is part of the fire code the rest are barred off.

ronnie21 on July 11, 2011 at 2:05 pm

what year where these photos taken?????

jwheckert on July 1, 2011 at 3:02 pm

Photos from inside the cinemart from a few years back.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/heckert/sets/72157627080894744/show/

ronnie21 on June 21, 2011 at 8:52 pm

Hey jordan, cool you saw apocalypse in 1979.. Was it a nice theater inside???

jordanlage on June 21, 2011 at 8:12 pm

Saw several movies at the CineMart when I was living in Wilmington as a kid. The only one I can recall off-hand is Apocalypse Now, playing some time after it had opened exclusively in New York & LA. Coppola’s film had played the Zeigfeld in New York. This print had no titles or credits at beginning or end. A printed program was handed out to patrons detailing all credits. The print I saw at CineMart had added end credits. No program was given to patrons. Hard to believe that as of June 2011 the theater (what’s left of it) still stands.

ronnie21 on May 27, 2011 at 2:40 pm

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ronnie21 on April 23, 2011 at 12:25 pm

I would like to find old newspaper articles from delaware circa, 1980, and see the listings for movies being shown at the cinemart that year. Any ,librarys in del might have them??

ronnie21 on April 23, 2011 at 12:22 pm

So, the last poster in that frame was THE EXTERMINATOR. wow… so long ago…

ronnie21 on April 22, 2011 at 4:14 pm

Quess i was lucky just taking pictures..

Mike Rogers on April 19, 2011 at 8:27 pm

when I explore old theatres usually an exit door can be found that will open.

offhollywood on April 19, 2011 at 7:55 pm

Maybe the person knows the property owner.
It is a risky spot to go trespassing in with a police station right across the road.

ronnie21 on April 19, 2011 at 4:48 pm

I wonder how this dude got inside.? I would love to see if they’re any seats left. you can see the screen dangling. thats cool.. when i went, i couldn’t find a way in. Quess if you got caught you could get arrested for breaking and entering on private property ..

ronnie21 on April 18, 2011 at 7:43 pm

Its been closed since sept of 1980..
check this out..http://www.flickr.com/photos/blackandwhitede/2116364763/in/set-72157615741952559/

offhollywood on April 17, 2011 at 1:32 am

Last I saw the old theater and sign on the front still remain.

they are doing stuff to the shopping center across the street. first they tore down the old Strawbridges building, and since then it looks like they’ve been doing more. I used to go to Tuesday Morning until they left the shopping center.

I always wonder what it’s like inside, after sitting empty for all those years.

ronnie21 on March 12, 2011 at 9:57 am

Also, looks like they might finally by tearing this place down .. looks like theres a lot of work going on there.. we’ll see.

ronnie21 on February 26, 2011 at 11:32 am

Hey took a bunch of pictures today go here to view them.
http://musicandanythingafter.blogspot.com

ronnie21 on February 22, 2011 at 3:46 pm

Can you recall any other movies that were shown there in 1980????

Cinemart

4302 Governor Printz Boulevard, Wilmington, DE 19810

4302 Governor Printz Boulevard,
Wilmington, DE 19810