Central Park Fox
6602 Blanco Road,
San Antonio,
TX
78213
6602 Blanco Road,
San Antonio,
TX
78213
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Previously operated by: Mann Theatres, National General Theatres
Firms: Johnson & Dempsey, Pearson, Wuesthoff & Skinner
Previous Names: Fox Twin
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Located in the Central Park Shopping Center. This was a very nice theatre which was opened by National General Theatres on December 18, 1969 with Peter Ustinov in “Viva Max” on one screen. The second screen opened the following week. It was a true twin. Each auditorium held 750 people. It had huge curved screens and had gold traveller curtains. The seats were velour American Seating Stellers. Auditorium two was split on December 20, 1974. A fair job was done splitting the auditorium, but the elegance was lost. The new screens were very small.
In 1984, the other big auditorium was split, and the theatre became a bargain house, with $1 movies. It finally closed on July 11, 1996 and was razed in 2003.
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A May 12, 1969, Boxoffice item about the groundbreaking for the Central Park Fox said that the twin was designed by the Los Angeles architectural firm of Pearson, Wuesthoff & Skinner. Johnson & Dempsey of San Antonio were the local associate architects.
The Fox Twin theatre was opened by National General Cinemas on December 18th, 1969 with “Viva Max”. the other cinema opened the next week. Grand opening ad posted.
Reopened on December 20th, 1974 as a 3-plex with Rhoda Fleming attending. Grand opening ad posted
I worked there for Larry Elmer as his Assistant Manager. It was 1971 and I was just out of college. When we had a blockbuster it was very busy. Cabaret played there exclusively in 1972.
6602 Blanco Road would be the proper address. It was on Rector and Blanco. Rector was absorbed into the big box center, once Central Park Mall was demolished.
Closed 1996.
Actual closing date is July 11, 1996.
On March 19, 1992, an evening screening of “Kuffs” turned into a disaster when a 19-year-old Aaron Scott Wallander was shot dead at the theater parking lot. A San Antonio Police sergeant named Tom Secraw was inside watching the film with his girlfriend when an argument began with three men, including Wallander, sitting behind them. At the time of the argument, the theater’s air conditioning system had an issue at the time. Secraw did not know what the argument was about, but the three men, including Wallander, left the theater about halfway through and were followed outside by the three. The argument continued at the lobby. One of the men shouted, “Let’s go outside and finish this!”
Wallander walked outside followed by his girlfriend and the three men. The man’s unknown-modeled (listed as late-model compact) was parked off the theater sidewalk on the west side. The girlfriend stayed at the top of the steps leading to the parking lot while Wallander tried to get to his car. The three men caught up to Wallander and fatally shot him in the head, neck, chest, and arm, five times with a ,25-caliber semi-automatic pistol, before Wallander fell less than 15 feet from his car that had a bumper sticker on the rear of his car reading “Skateboarding is not a crime”. He was pronounced dead after being taken to a nearby hospital.
no information found online to substantiate this “story”
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