GCC Cross Creek Mall Cinemas I, II, III

apostcardlife on April 23, 2012 at 10:55 pm

(Also, GC filed for bankruptcy in 2000, as did many theater chains.)

raysson on April 10, 2012 at 10:53 am

ctwrenn: ROCKY III played on 2 screens at Cross Creek Mall Cinemas to capacity crowds in 1982.

Steven Spielburg’s “E.T.” played at the neighbor Westwood Triple at Westwood Plaza in 1982.

raysson on April 10, 2012 at 10:49 am

George Lucas' STAR WARS played here first-run as part of it’s exclusive engagement showing at the Cross Creek III on June 17,1977. It was one of five theatres in North Carolina that got the exclusive showing. Other cities within the state didn’t get the film until July 1st.

SPOK on July 9, 2011 at 7:07 am

I remember the Cross Creek Mall Cinema very well indeed. During my summer 1981 six week stint at Fort Bragg I often escaped to the Mall to enjoy a movie in air-conditioned comfort. At the time the Cross Creek Mall Cinema, and its neighbor at the Westwood Plaza, were the most modern movie theaters in the area. The first film I saw there was SUPERMAN II. No matter how corny you judge the second installment of the Christopher Reeves Superman franchise, it was absolute heaven to enjoy the film in a climate controled auditorium after the first week of exhausting Army training. Soon afterward I was back in the same auditorium for Mel Brooks' HISTORY OF THE WORLD.

At that time the Cross Creek Mall was, more or less, all by itself astride the All American Highway. A short few years later the area around Mall was awash in a sea of retail stores and fast food restaurants.

In the mid 1980’s I was back at Fort Bragg and made it to the Cross Creek to see John Candy in ARMED AND DANGEROUS. I remember at that time there was a large gaudy display in front of the theater advertising HOWARD THE DUCK.

Unfortunately the Cross Creek Cinema became a victim of General Cinemas' bankruptcy and ultimate collapse.

raysson on June 8, 2009 at 1:20 pm

Excellent photo of the movie marquee at this General Cinema Theatre-Cross Creek Mall Cinemas I-II-III from 1981 or 1982.

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One of the showing on the marquee is for “Sharkey’s Machine” starring Burt Reynolds.

raysson on June 3, 2009 at 6:57 pm

Opened in 1975 as one of the first General Cinema Theatres to operate in the greater Cumberland County area. One of the first triplex theatres in the Fayetteville area.