Plaza Theatre
2601 Cross Country Drive,
Columbus,
GA
31906
2601 Cross Country Drive,
Columbus,
GA
31906
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Previously operated by: ABC Southeastern Theatres, Carmike Cinemas, Plitt Theatres
Architects: William Bringhurst McGehee
Firms: Six Associates
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Opened by ABC Southeastern Theatres on July 3, 1970 with Robert Morse in “Boatniks”. If my finite memory serves me well, this is where I first saw “My Fair Lady” as a child back in the early-1970’s. It was later taken over by Plitt Theatres.
Based on a view of a recent aerial photograph, it appears that the other two auditoriums were built from the ground up as opposed to splitting up the main one. It was on May 30, 1997 and demolished in February 2014.
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Jack Coursey
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My Fair Lady was not a Cinerama film. It was filmed in the Super Panavision 70 process, and released in both 70mm and 35mm (anamorphic) formats. The Plaza was a 70mm house.
I remember seeing Robocop and missing in action 3 at the plaza it was a nice theatre the seats were great.
I erroneously reported that an auditorium was built from the ground up in 1977. It was built in 1975 or 1976, still researching when.
This opened on July 3rd, 1970. Grand opening ad in the photo section.
I found out that the second auditorium at the Plaza opened on Christmas Day, 1975. I’ve added a “coming soon” and a “opening” photo to the photo section. I still think the main Ultra-Vision theater was split in 1978.
I remember back in 1971 when I had visited my grandparents who now lived up there. I originally wanted to go to the downtown Rialto theater, which cinema treasurers and Georgia has forgotten a downtown theater very small that normally showed x rated movies were showing Die Frankenstine die, normally when I visited my Grandparents I and my dad would go to the Bradley up the street. I was curious about the Rialto cause it was showing x rated movies. By the time I came back, it was showing GP rated horror film. I wanted to see it, but, my cousin wanted to go to the plaza theater to see walt disney’s scandalous john. She won. Well, I was surprised that this theater was exactly like the Montgomery mall theater in Mont ala,alao an Ultravision theater . The same type of 146-degree screen, like Cinerama and stereophonic sound, in fact, the same movie that premiered in Georgia premiered at the one where I lived in august 70. The Brian Kieth film was projected onto the curved screen. My guess was a blown-up from 35mm Panavision and at the end of the film had auditorium audio effects, simulated stereo audio music.
Grand opening ad:
ABC Plaza opening 03 Jul 1970, Fri Ledger-Enquirer (Columbus, Georgia) Newspapers.com
Closed on May 30th, 1997, by Carmike Cinemas.
Once operated by ABC Southeastern Theatres.
ABC Southeastern Theatres first operated the Plaza until the Plitt Theatres purchase in 1978.