UA Cine I & II
Yale Boulevard & Central Expressway,
Dallas,
TX
75206
Yale Boulevard & Central Expressway,
Dallas,
TX
75206
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This was a two screen theater, in a shopping mall in the ritzy area of North Dallas. It was located near Yale Boulevard along Central Expressway. It basically showed art house and foreign films all through the 1970’s and 1980’s, when I lived in Dallas (until 1986). I know that “Diner” played there, I think “Das Boot” played there and many art house type films, including “Dona Flor and her Two Husbands”.
In the late-2000’s, SMU University, bought the shopping center, to use for more buildings or parking for the University and the theatre was demolished.
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The aka UA Cine 150 needs to be added. Like the two UA Cinema 150 houses (I don’t know why UA gave the Dallas location a variant name) in Oak Brook, Illinois, and Santa Clara, California, this theater was designed by San Francisco architect George Raad of George Raad & Associates.
Pictures of the lobby of this theatre is at http://cinerama.topcities.com/150dallas.htm
I also have the grand opening ad from May 1st, 1968 as UA Ciné 150 at View link . They claimed that this was the first 8-channel stereophonic theatre in the world. This theatre was at 5540 Yale accord to the ad.
Theatre demolished, building footprint has been paved and striped for parking. Entire property is now a remote parking lot for SMU.
<<< On a Friday evening, in the spring of 1975, Steven Spielberg and the executives from Universal choose the UA Cine 150 to have the first sneak preview of JAWS for an audience. >>>
This sneak-preview “test” screening took place on Wednesday, March 26, 1975 and was at the Medallion, not this theater.
<<< The following evening, Universal took the picture for a second sneak to the Lakewood Center Theatre in Lakewood , CA. >>>
The Lakewood screening was on March 28, two nights later.
Wonder if “NORTH DALLAS FORTY” played there.
Maybe!
Description is all wrong – the UA Cine 150 (name reverting to UA Cine when twinned in the early 1970’s) was NEVER in a shopping mall – it was free-standing until the day it was demolished. The “150” in its original name designated its capability of projecting Dimension 150 prints – only two pictures were ever photographed in this process, which was simply Todd A-O with a new name and a better lens, and these were “The Bible” (1966) and “Patton” (1970). Ironically, both opened their exclusives downtown at the Tower! Oh, well…
Some photos I took of the Cine I & II back in both 2005 & 2007.. Today, nothing remains of this Theatre.. Enjoy.. Randy A Carlisle – Historical Photographer
Saw a lot of movies, here, including Ghostbusters. When The Piano played here, they had a grand piano in the lobby.
By it’s last months, the place had become run down. The Angelika was about to open about a block from it, the art house with the cafe, 7 screens, and Trinity Hall attached to it in Mockingbird Station, so the Cine was allowed to die.