Trans-Lux Inflight Cinema
419 Eastway Drive,
Charlotte,
NC
28205
419 Eastway Drive,
Charlotte,
NC
28205
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The Trans-Lux Inflight Cinema opened on Charlotte’s suburban east side in 1970 and was the second twin theater in town after the Charlottetown.
The neighborhood and theater declined fairly quickly and by the late-1970’s it was converted into one of Charlotte’s most notorious twin porn theaters with the catchy name of Cinema Blue. The building is vacant now but almost unrecognizable as a theater. It’s tucked away in the back corner of an aging strip center.
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The address for this theatre was 419 Eastway Drive. Originally this theatre was owned by Brandt Theatres.
The official name was Trans-Lux Inflight Cinema and they originally used 16mm film projectors like airlines first did. The individual screens were known at various times as cine gold & cine blue or cine 1 & 2. It was in a strip center anchored by a Zayre discount store.
used to change the marquee here in the early to mid 70’s……..used to get the films before they were headed out of town, or going to tv the next week……used to be famous for all night kung fu or horror marathons…
Can remember servicing the projection equipment here. Projectors, if I remember were “Simplex” 35mm mounted on “EPRAD” Sword Reel to REEl Transports. Strippers performed stage routines while XXX films were rewound.
Can anyone confirm that this theater is the building way at the back of the this shopping center? Or is it another building that sits somewhere else on the property? There is a free standing building (currently a 4545 address) that looks like it could have been the theater but it doesn’t jive with the info here. Anyone know?