SouthPark Mall Cinemas
4400 Sharon Road,
Charlotte,
NC
28211
4400 Sharon Road,
Charlotte,
NC
28211
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The Southpark Mall Cinemas was built in June of 1970 on the section of a strip mall behind Sears Department Store and was next to at the time several retail shops at a grocery store which was Colonial Stores, and later on Big Star and was acquired later on during the 1980’s by Harris Teeter. The SouthPark Mall opened in early 1970, and the movie theatre came around during the summer of 1970.
The SouthPark Cinemas was Charlotte’s premiere showplace of great entertainment and it was the place to go to see some of Hollywood’s best. It opened as a twin cinema under the General Cinema banner and later on during the mid-
1970’s a third auditorium was built making it one of the exclusive movie palaces in Charlotte.
During the 1980’s,the SouthPark Mall was undergoing renovations and the theatre was still doing great business until the late 1990’s when the SouthPark Cinemas closed its doors forever (when the Phillips Place Cinemas was built across the street from SouthPark Mall which was a multiplex). The theatre and the strip mall were demolished to make extensions for further development of SouthPark Mall by adding more stores and additional features.
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Photo of Southpark Cinemas from 1985……..
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*Also called at the time the Southpark Cinemas I-II-III:
On the marquee was the showing of “Commando” with Arnold Scwarzenegger.
Excellent history of General Cinema Theatres located in the greater Charlotte area..which includes the Southpark Mall Cinemas I-II-III along with the Eastland Mall Cinemas,Charlottetown Mall Cinemas,and Tower Place Cinemas.
Here is the website:
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Other photos of General Cinema Theatres in North Carolina.
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I wonder if Patricia Poland is related to Dave Poland our District Manager with GCC in the 80’s?
Absolutely!
In fact, the photos of GCC Theatres at my flickr site belong to David.
Wow, It is a small world.I worked at GCC in Augusta and Athens as an Assistant and enjoyed my times with the late Craig Zacker as my manager. I had been in the business probably longer than Zacker having worked at ABC and Plitt theatres.They wanted me to go to Columbia to help out there at the Mall theatre,but didn’t care about it and stayed in Augusta. Of all my Disrict Managers David and Mr.Biggs with ABC/PLitt were the nicest men to serve under,even as an assistant I felt welcomed when he came to town.Hope Mr.Poland is doing okay.
Mike, Thanks for nice comment about David.
I married my box office girl my four kids are by-products of GCC.LOL.
looking at old movies ads at the Southpark,“BATMAN and ROBIN” are playing on Screen one and two,says it in the paper, Screen three has “SPEED 2”. SUMMER MOVIE CAMP starting up again.I remember those days.LOL.