Barrington Square Theaters

I just noticed that this place has disappeared this month. I took my kids to a car show that was held in the parking lot and I decided to take a walk by the place. I could not believe it was gone, I had a lot of good time there back in high school in the late '80s.

Can't belive they had to demolish it. I had a lot of memories of it when I was younger. I saw at least twenty movies there or more. This used to be such a busy shoping center, but now it's so empty. At least there is AMC Theaters down the street on Barrington Road. More expensive though.

I saw some good movies here. As I recall the auditoriums were long and narrow. Of the 6 screens, I think only two auditoriums were equipped with Dolby sound. Very popular date-night movie spot.

This and the Ogden 6, which is still open, were the Chicagoland Area's first 6-screen multiplexes. They were also AMC's first inroads into the area. I once dated someone from this area and we would stop at Garibaldi's, which was in the same mall.

Sometime during the 1980s, this theatre showed a mix of first and second run films. The admission charge for the first run films was cheaper than what Plitt/Cineplex-Odious (I mean Cineplex-Odeon) charged.

This was THE spot to be if you were a teen in the 80's. Every Staurday, it was like John Hughes was filming a brat-pack movie there!!! There was also a record store there that was very popular then, I can't remember the name anymore...

The record store was Flip Side (next door to Garibaldi's Pizza). I worked at Flip Side in the late '80s and did my share of hanging out in Barrington Square.

Here is a small ad from the Daily Herald dated 1/1/80:
http://tinyurl.com/345xfb

Here is a June 1982 ad from the Daily Herald:
http://tinyurl.com/pvg3mv

I was there many times though for some reason the only 2 movies I can remember seeing are Fright Night and Saturn 3. Oh well. That June 1982 ad is more memerable as I saw Blade Runner at Randhurst, with NO air conditioning. It was rough.