Central Park Fox

San Antonio, TX

Central Park Shopping Center

, San Antonio, TX 78216 United States

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Status:	Closed/Demolished
Screens:	Multiplex (4 Screen)
Style:	Unknown

Function:	Unknown
Seats:	1500
Chain:	Unknown

Architect:	Unknown
Firm:	Johnson & Dempsey

This was a very nice theatre. It was a true twin. Each auditorium held 750 people. It had huge curved screens and had gold traveller curtains. The seats were velour American Seating Stellers. Auditorium two was split in 1974. A fair job was done splitting the auditorium, but the elegance was lost. The new screens were very small.

In 1984, the other big auditorium was split, and the theatre became a bargain house, with $1 movies. It finally closed in the mid-1990's and was razed in 2003.

Contributed by outafocus

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This site has some photos.

posted by Lost Memory on Oct 6, 2008 at 8:39am

Here is an item from the San Antonio Express dated 12/18/69:

Larry Benson, previously manager of the Fox Theater in Amarillo, now is managing National General Corporation's new 1,500-seat Fox Twin Central Park Theaters in San Antonio. Benson, 28, started his theater career as a marquee and posterboy in Benson years ago while attending high school and worked his way up to doorman and then assistant manager.

He continued working for Fox theaters when he attended the University of Montana and upon graduation, was promoted from assistant manager of the Fox Theater in Missoula, Montana to manager of the Kiva Theater in Durango, Colo., in 1967. He held the Durango post until his transfer to Amarillo last year.

posted by ken mc on Mar 12, 2009 at 4:35pm

The January 13, 1975, issue of Boxoffice Magazine said that the former Fox Twin in San Antonio had reopened as a triplex on December 20, 1974. Actress Rhonda Fleming made a personal appearance at the opening. She had attended the opening of another Mann Theatre the previous day, at Lubbock.

Mann Theatres had plans to add three more screens to the Fox Central Park 3 at a future date, but it looks like they never got around to it.

posted by Joe Vogel on Mar 12, 2009 at 7:50pm

Rhonda Fleming was married to Ted Mann.

posted by ken mc on Mar 12, 2009 at 9:14pm

A May 12, 1969, Boxoffice item about the groundbreaking for the Central Park Fox said that the twin was designed by the Los Angeles architectural firm of Pearson, Wuesthoff & Skinner. Johnson & Dempsey of San Antonio were the local associate architects.

posted by Joe Vogel on Nov 18, 2009 at 11:59pm

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