Capri Twin Theatre

Was this theatre later expanded to become the Harding Mall 6 or did it exist elsewhere in the Harding Mall?

I tried to post a little while ago so this may appear twice. When I was a kid the theater was actually in the mall until the early to mid 80's. I remember seeing the first "Mannequin" movie there. I was young. Anyway, what was later known as the Harding Mall 6 used to be a fabric store called Cloth World.

This one is headed for the wreaking ball. A new Sprall Mart is slated to be built on the site were what remains of the mall resides.

Jack, the Capri was not the same as Harding Mall 6. The Capri was located on the south side of the mall. It was very successful for a time, even though it was a dump, far removed from the movie palace.

Harding Mall 6 opened in the early 90s as part of the mall's upgrade. It was located on the north side.

Mall 6 was a cozy little venue. It failed for several reasons:

1. It's operator, Carmike Cinemes, either did not know of and/or did not appreciate the impact of the stadium multiplex. The venue was dated the day it opened.

2. The area continued its change from a middle class one to a lower class area.

3. The mall's renovation did not save it.

In 2005 wrecking balls destroyed the entire mall. The property is now being built as a WalMart.

Unlike some other old theaters in Nashville, neither the old nor the new venues at the old Harding Mall are likely to be fondly rmemebered.

This was located on the side of the mall directly facing Harding Road. When the mall was rehabbed during the 1980s, the twin was taken out and replaced by the aforementioned 6-screen in the early 90s. For a time, Harding Mall had no theatre at all... As previously mentioned, the mall itself is no more -- it's a WalMart now.

I think the whole venture was built upon the false premise that "if you build it, they will come." Carmike continued to build non stadium miltiplexes in the Nashville metroplex well into the 1990s. It was easily unseated as the dominant chain in Nashville by Regal Cinemas, which constructed the amazing [at the time] Regal Hollywood 27 in 1996, then later the more sedate but in some ways more successful Green Hills Commons 16.

Harding Mall was always kind of a dump IMHO. The Castner's there didn't carry the same choice of merechandise as their other stores. Anybody remember Pasquale's? It was across the street from the mall and we'd hit it after a show at the Capri. The Harding Mall Shoney's didn't have the teen hang-out vibe that Thompson Lane, Donelson, and Madison had. Just kind of always out of the way and suburbanly ugly.