Regency Exchange Cinema

Only saw a couple of movies here, One that comes to mind is Terminator 2 in summer of 1991. From 1989 till 1991 I worked at local TV station WBEK, and we did several promotions here I worked, one was for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles summer 1990…….We aired the cartoon show, and ran a promotion on opening weekend registering kids who came to see the movie for some club and gave away Ninja Turtles Action figures. Did a similar one in 1991 for some other kids movie, forget what it was tho. I always thought it was built in an odd place………You could tell as early as 85-86 which way this part of town was heading…..

I tried to tell the big shots at GCC to put it in North Augusta,They listened alright.No GCC anymore.

Chuck, I think Mike’s point is that the “big shots” have a habit of NOT listening to the local people for ideas of where theaters should be located. I know General Cinema didn’t. Mike and I both told them that they should consider putting up a theater around the Augusta Mall side of Augusta, instead of behind the Regency Mall. Years after the Regency Exchange went belly-up, a theater sprang up in Evans and one just a few miles away from the Augusta Mall. Now there’s going to be a new one off of RiverWatch Pkwy and I-20. So, the point is that corporate bigwigs should sometimes listen to the local boys.

Since we just got over the fourth of July, it made me think about past movie promotions. We didn’t do anything for the 4th. I remember Mother’s Day, we gave little apple pies and carnations to each mom. For some of the midnight movies we had magic shows. There was some comedy/love story about a maid and we had a drawing for free maid service. For Stallone’s movie Cobra, we had a stuffed real-looking cobra at the box office and let people take pictures with it. I’m sure I’ll remember more later. Y'all remember any? Will people from other boards read this and join in?

I drove around town with a huge camel on the top of my car promoting “HAWWPS”.Back in old days. I removed all comments about charles,except the one you wrote,Russ,might want to remove it.Told Charles I did take them off.Zack was always thinking up something,“Whorehouse” promo was pretty HOT. I think Sherri showed more in the Lobby than on the screen,what I saw,and I hate Musicals was pretty tame for an R rated Flick.