oldblue above, Clark Childers who at one time owned the theater and posted about it had just died. He was a friend of mine for over 40 years and continued to be in the film business long after owning the Main theater. He went on to be a film buyer for BAC theaters for many years and lived to the ripe old age of 95, still sharp as a tack about everything in the movie industry during his life. Along with the old long gone movie theaters so are our old industry people leaving us. Thanks for the many years of entertaining Clark! Randy Gilmore
I worked for Wehrenberg for 35 years in the corporate office. The theater was actually opened in 1988 with a grand opening later in 89 and did not have 70 mm only 35 in all 10 screens. We were also out of Union Station long before the bankruptcy. The company also never said anything about never wanting to operate a theater in the city again. We just didn’t. Amc theaters were the original ones that had the plans and were to open the theater. They backed out and we stepped in. We had the Stadium one and Stadium two Cine’s for years prior to Union Station and they were very profitable. As with many city businesses, crime is the main reason for shutting down a location. Union Station back then was as a whole becoming a crime ridden area.
another note, i was a projectionist at the north and it sat on more acre’s than any other …..50 acre’s the even covered the area on 367 where the gas station sat….
i was a projectionist at the northwest 9…..it was never owned by anyone else other than wehrenberg theaters…..wehrenberg bought out all of general cinemas theaters in missouri…..on the west side of the parking lot was a four screen theater that wehrenberg ran until the inside the mall 9 screen was done….it was built on the old famous barr furniture part of the mall….wehrenberg closed it and no one reopened it…..it was closed due to the mall turning into a junk house, with no patrons….most of the large stores have left the mall now and it only has two anchors…..the mall is over 80 percent empty…..wehrenberg was smart enough to get out before the mall fell completely apart….
actually the holiday was owned by rko theaters…….i was a projectionist at nearly all of the st.louis drive-ins for thirty years and paycheck stubs had rko theaters on them at one time
I worked for Wehrenberg for 35 years and during our ownership no ghost was ever seen…..
oldblue above, Clark Childers who at one time owned the theater and posted about it had just died. He was a friend of mine for over 40 years and continued to be in the film business long after owning the Main theater. He went on to be a film buyer for BAC theaters for many years and lived to the ripe old age of 95, still sharp as a tack about everything in the movie industry during his life. Along with the old long gone movie theaters so are our old industry people leaving us. Thanks for the many years of entertaining Clark! Randy Gilmore
I worked for Wehrenberg for 35 years in the corporate office. The theater was actually opened in 1988 with a grand opening later in 89 and did not have 70 mm only 35 in all 10 screens. We were also out of Union Station long before the bankruptcy. The company also never said anything about never wanting to operate a theater in the city again. We just didn’t. Amc theaters were the original ones that had the plans and were to open the theater. They backed out and we stepped in. We had the Stadium one and Stadium two Cine’s for years prior to Union Station and they were very profitable. As with many city businesses, crime is the main reason for shutting down a location. Union Station back then was as a whole becoming a crime ridden area.
another note, i was a projectionist at the north and it sat on more acre’s than any other …..50 acre’s the even covered the area on 367 where the gas station sat….
i was a projectionist at the northwest 9…..it was never owned by anyone else other than wehrenberg theaters…..wehrenberg bought out all of general cinemas theaters in missouri…..on the west side of the parking lot was a four screen theater that wehrenberg ran until the inside the mall 9 screen was done….it was built on the old famous barr furniture part of the mall….wehrenberg closed it and no one reopened it…..it was closed due to the mall turning into a junk house, with no patrons….most of the large stores have left the mall now and it only has two anchors…..the mall is over 80 percent empty…..wehrenberg was smart enough to get out before the mall fell completely apart….
actually the holiday was owned by rko theaters…….i was a projectionist at nearly all of the st.louis drive-ins for thirty years and paycheck stubs had rko theaters on them at one time