Phipps Plaza Theater
3500 Peachtree Road NE,
Atlanta,
GA
30326
3500 Peachtree Road NE,
Atlanta,
GA
30326
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As my memory serves me, the Phipps Plaza Theatre was originally a single screen downstairs. They added the Penthouse upstairs at a later date. I was thinking they split the original theatre downstairs into two screens. The original theatre was one of the most comfortable with more leg room per seat… great when someone had to get by you to get to their seat, or exit to the lobby.
“Monty Python and The Holy Grail"goes on Seven weeks at the Penthouse.Between Jacksonsonville and Atlanta screens it has grossed over $300,000.A dozen addition markets are set to open next week. Sept.22.1974,BOXOFFICE.
Admission Prices set for “JEDI” and “SUPERMAN” from the Knoxville District is that Child will go to $2.50 and Adult will go to $4.50 on “JEDI” and $4.00 for “SUPERMAN”.
Saw MAS*H at the original PPT in late 70 or early 71. Place was packed.
Was it at Phipps where you bought the tickets at one location in the mall, then
walked to the theater in another? Idea was to “acquaint” the customer with more
mall merchants. Anybody remember that, or is it just another of my
Baby Boomer memory tricks?
That mall was like a cemetery at one point in the early 80s. You could walk through
and about the only people you’d see were store employees and uniformed security
people. Lenox Square, on the other hand, would be packed. It’s been a while since I’ve been to Atlanta, I guess Phipps has recovered. Hope so, it was a beautiful mall.
Phipp’s Fountain and Tea Room? Things always taste better there, I don’t know WHAT they do to it!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtS7lKIXafQ
Hahaha…no, I had retired and moved to Jacksonville, Florida by that time!
Robin, were you still in ATlanta when these movies played?
Now showing Oct 15 1988, “LAST TEMPTATION OF CHRIST”,“RUNNING ON EMPTY” and “PUNCHLINE”
Now Showing March 28 1988, “A NEW LIFE” rated PG-13 Going into 11 weeks is “GOOD MORNING VIETNAM” rated R.
Great shots. I know you are glad you took a few. I have searching everywhere for pictures.I think I have found them. Any for STONEMONT? I am going to look now. Bye.
A couple of pictures I found of the theatre.
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I don’t remember that movie while I was there, but I was in and out due to circumstances beyond my control :)
I do remember the egg chairs! We didn’t have them in the lobby though. I think they were in the office we had talked our city manager into letting us use. We thought they were so funny.
I was there when they put the games in that little area you’re talking about. We had a hard time getting used to that at first. They had one of the games turned up too loud and every few minutes it would just blare out DRAGON SLAYER… scared the crap out of us! hahaha
I don’t know about the Barbie Couch, but the spinning chairs that looked like eggs were made in Europe, Belgium I believe. They might have been gone by the time you arrived. The alcove on the right near the front door was probably a game room in your day. In the ABC days it was a waiting area with very nice chairs where people could sit in peace and quiet while waiting for the previous show to end.
As I said, Phipps was first class in all respects when it first opened. You would never see that much square footage without some type of revenue source in a theatre lobby today.
Your employement dates indicate that you might have been there during the 70MM booking of Silverado. It was the last movie I saw at Phipps.
great pictures.forgot to put that in.
550 seats that is a heck of a penthouse.My cousin’s theatre the CAROLINA had what they called a Penthouse,but it sat about 125 people or so.more or less. Stan has almost every Atlanta theatre covered. I think he was a GCC manager.
Found a couple of pictures…
Mall security…hard at work…
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The Barbie couch!
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I think Mike was just estimating 100…I knew it had to be more than that.
Stan, I just went back and read your post. It was really great to read. You seem to know all of the details about the time before I worked there. I worked at The Phipps off and on from January 1983 til about the end of 1985. It was a great place to work.
How about the furniture in the lobby. It always made me think of the furniture you see in a Barbie dollhouse! Big boxy plastic white couches with big red vinyl cushions! Makes me laugh to remember!
O.K. Robin.
In an effort to get things back on topic, I will repeat what I said in my first post on this page. The Penthouse had 550 seats. Don’t know where the 100 came from. If you like you can look at my picture of the auditorium that Jack Corsey posted for me. You can almost count all of them from the booth prespective.
No, let’s not do that :)
Lets not get off-topic here.
How do you ever forget a girl called ECHO,had she been a Sue i probably wouldn’t have asked.My cousin worked at theatre in Hendersonville,N.C. he did everything.They took out the balcony and squeezed a small theatre in the space. It seated about 125 and they called it CAROLINA PENTHOUSE. See how I got back onTOPIC.
THAT’S HER!!!! LOL
IF one of them is named Echo then i hit pay dirt. I am beat to the dog bone and going to bed guys. keep the film rolling!
I’ll let her know…if she’s still speaking to me. LOL She has 2 older sisters.