Regal Augusta Village Cinema 12
1323 Augusta West Parkway,
Augusta,
GA
30909
1323 Augusta West Parkway,
Augusta,
GA
30909
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Rumor has it Georgia Theatres are interested in the 12 plex as a dollar cinema, reducing the screens to eight..
Thanks Bob, Building Still sits Empty…..
When I was stationed at Fort Gordon, I remember seeing several movies here. Off the top of my head I remember seeing the first Austin Powers, Con Air, and the 1997 Star Wars Trilogy re-releases.
When this theatre was still an 8 plex “TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES III is playing.
Playing here STREET FIGHTER.RICHIE RICH,MIXED NUTS,SPEECHLESS,DUMB AND DUMBER,DISCLOSESURE,A LOW DOWN DIRTY SHAME,STAR TREK GENERATIONS,MIRACLE ON 34th STREET,SANTA CLAUSE.THE LION KING,JUNIOR,STARGATE.DROP ZONE.some of these were piggy backed.
REGAL never should have killed GCC.Sad.
An aerial view can be seen here.
I was working at Regency Exchange when this place opened. It killed our business.
It was always a REGAL,rivest266.
I uploaded an grand opening ad from April 17th, 1992. (maybe as a Regal)
Opened just before Christmas 1991…….
The treatment on the front of the theatre looks like Super Saver / Silver ran the theatre at some point. Was this a Regal the entire time?
Neat story James.
I believe it opened in 1991 because my Dad took my 12 year old sister to see Father of The Bride on a Father-Daughter date, and she said he laughed louder than anyone.
Once, in 1999, I went to see 10 Things I hate About You. I kept on giving the box office attendant a $ 10 bill he gave back. When I looked at it, I found out my Grandma (as a joke) had put a fake $ 10 bill in with my money to be funny. My Aunt came and paid for my ticket and I paid her back. She got on my Grandma- her Mom- for that. Good times.
thanks tracy,how about those Columbia 1 and 2 theatre pictures.
Sorry, It’s been a crazy few months. Jaws banner I didn’t post yet but I will. I do however have this video on line of a Christmas party we had at Regal 1998.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edHqiP6a1q4
Still Closed.The whole place is about gone once BEST BUY and the Theatres Closed.
Here a aerial view
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Where did you post the “JAWS"banner.At the Imperial or one of the "JAWS” articles on CT?
It really wasn’t a bad theatre.I am just old school and hate things over 3 or 4 screens,but that is a “Me” problem.Thanks for the pictures.It is still sitting there like Regency,Except GCC left EVERYTHING in the 8-Plex.
Cool,
Sorry its taken so long to post the Columbia photos. It seems I’ve having to go through more boxes than I thought. Good news is while going through boxes I found a old cloth Jaws banner I’ve had for years. Will post asap.
Here’s 2 photos of the old cinema.
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Tracyp,Plez check out all our theatres in Augusta on CT,I have the Drive-in Theatres on Too.
Yes, National Hills had a full curtain that actully worked until it finally broke and no one fixed it.National Hills could show 70mm on that large screen. One thing I noticed about your theatre it was just TOO Dang easy to slip into without paying,The Ticket chopper,I guess was about in the only place you guys could place it.But the Theatre Manager in me always noticed that stuff,The two large cinemas were pretty decent,but those two small houses were a joke.I was there when they closed and shipped everything back to KNOXVILLE.I looked it by a back exit door they striped it.Was hoping to find some One sheets in the dumpster out back,but nothing but some trade magazines,Don’t even think they were BOXOFFICE which was a great theatre Magazine,REGAL must and still is a cheap outfit,How they run that 20 plex across the interstate is beyond me.They must have three managers.One thing when I worked as a Assistant at Regency and Columbia Square and National Hills I never cleaned floors.Boy, the business sure did change, But GCC and Plitt were much better Theatre chains to work for.MY cousin was a manager for REGAL and all I heard were Horror Stories,Cutting Staff,Showtimes,Concessions,etc.
I remember the night The Matrix opened, the manager that was over me at the time had the bright idea that he was going to keep selling tickets to a sold out show and then interlock. I begged him not to do that because to me the risk was too great. As you know being Regal we already had enough to do. You could say that Regal’s middle name was “cut labor†so you know who had to clean auditoriums. Well, needless to say he interlocked them. The rest was history. Not only did the sound not start, moments later there was the first of many brain wraps as they say. End of story. So now we had the same amount of people going out as came in. 300 emergency tickets later it was over!
When (Star Wars) Episode I came out I did my best to try to old school the first showing as I remembered as a child. We didn’t have a big curtain like National Hills so the best I could do was to flip from flat to scope and the screen opened a little (for effect) because if my memory is correct I believe that National Hills at one point and time was one big theater and had a full curtain. Then I hit the lights and waited a few seconds to let’em cheer. It wasn’t National Hills but it was the thought that counted!
Don’t get me wrong Regal was fun at times but it really was way too focused on cheap labor. After the thread and start of 12 films every 2 hours wasn’t enough to drain you, cleaning 12 auditorium floors was! Then I thought I got smart and moved to the Regal 20 when it opened. The last film I threaded for Regal was “Chicken Run†in 2000. It was enough for me, the excitement of the movies had given itself over to slide projectors and a manager in a three piece suit cleaning popcorn between shows.
I’m sure during the 70’s many of you were working at real theaters. I was that little kid stretching his neck trying to look up at the projection window! It was awesome!
Thanks Guys