Palm Bay Theater

US Highway 1,
Palm Bay, FL 32905

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Previous Names: Port Malabar Twin Cinema

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Port Malabar - Palm Bay, FL

Located on US 1, in Palm Bay, Florida in a strip mall, the Port Malabar Twin Cinema was opened on 15th June 1978 with Marjo Gortner in “Food of the Gods” & Timothy Bottoms in “A Small Town in Texas”. It closed in the late-1980’s as the Palm Bay Theater……It then became a club which is also now closed, and this strip mall now sits abandoned…..It was abandoned at the time that the two major hurricanes hit the area in September 2004…..all stores are closed…..At one time it was a thriving strip mall with Radio Shack, two banks, and a Winn-Dixie supermarket…..The strip mall was located on US 1 and the corner of Port Malabar Boulevard N.E. across from the Indian River………All major merchants including the banks moved to newer malls in the west section of Palm Bay closer to I-95 and away from the River-Front……The Palm Bay Theater was a small independent that showed first run films at first, then went to second run features that were at the time also on HBO……and finally closed after only being open for about ten years…Surrounding areas now have ten-plex theaters, as the free standing style is now passe.

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Scott Neff
Scott Neff on March 26, 2019 at 3:52 pm

Newspapers of the time suggest this became a twin theatre and was at one time operated by Cobb Theatres.

irvl
irvl on February 8, 2020 at 7:51 am

A sad history on this venue.

davidcoppock
davidcoppock on December 28, 2021 at 9:57 pm

Opened as Port Malabar Twin Cinema on 15th June 1978 on cinema 1 with “The food of the gods” and on cinema 2 with “A small town in Texas”.

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