Stargate Twin Theater

Shoes4Industry on February 29, 2012 at 11:26 am

I don’t know how I got thinking about this place, but I grew up in Rapid City and saw a number of movies at this one, while it was called the Northgate. A pretty crummy theater, I remember my Dad claiming it was originally built as one of the Jerry Lewis theaters.

Besides it’s mediocre quality, the other thing I remember about this place was that on one side of the lobby, there was this huge picture mural of a USA map populated by old movie star pictures (IIRC). I always thought this was pretty cool. I think this was put up by Commonwealth, who operated the place at the time. Wish I had a picture of that mural…

justin1979 on November 15, 2009 at 2:45 pm

i am not 100 percent for sure but i do think that the marquee was from the starlight drive in theater and was moved here in the 70s or 80s after the starlight closed down.the theater for years was known as the northgate theater, it was a dollar dump for while and really became a dump. than in 2000 or so its named changed to the stargate
i really miss this place . rip

raubre on July 15, 2006 at 5:48 am

That is an odd looking theater. Middle of a shopping plaza, cheapy undescript marquee. Looks like it could pass for another shop.