Movie City

Eight-screen facility opened in the late 1970’s, carved out of a short-lived department store (Grant City, an enlarged W.T. Grants, closed along with the rest of the company in the early 1970’s).

Presumed reason for the "10": when first opened, 10 movies would be showing (with piggybacked bookings on two screens). All auditoriums were equally smallish, without center aisles (promoted as "unobstructed viewing"), but they did bring the likes of "The Marriage of Maria Braun" and other subtitled fare when no one else did so in Broward County.

Eventually leased out by then-fledgling Muvico Theatres, Movie City closed by the mid-1990’s, since demolished and replaced by a Lowe’s Home Improvement warehouse.

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