Heights Theatre
5600 Kavanaugh Boulevard,
Little Rock,
AR
72205
5600 Kavanaugh Boulevard,
Little Rock,
AR
72205
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I lived in the Valley View Apt’s on Kavanaugh Blvd. in the late 40’s and regularlly attended the movies at the Heights Theater. A bunch of us kids would ride the street car out to the Heights to go to the Saturday Matinees. I think it cost maybe 25 cents to attend. We would watch Movie Tone News first and then westerns all afternoon. Fond memories.
This opened on May 1st, 1946. grand opening ad in the photo section.
^ Gee, I wonder where you read that. ;–)
Reportedly played E.T. in 70mm for two weeks starting on April 1st, 1983
This theatre closed at the end of Summer 1985—-this was never a twin theatre—-unless someone later reopened it as a twin—-which I don’t think happened.
Oh, and in later life certainly the place had two screens, not one as in the description.
I went to see late night shows of Rocky Horror and A Clockwork Orange there. Loved that little place. Wish it could have been made a “Classics” re-run house.
I saw “Brainstorm” in 70MM at the Heights. They had a huge screen and I remember the sound being very loud, especially during the scenes of the “brain recordings.”
Boxoffice of October 6, 1945, said that that Robb & Rowley’s Heights Theatre was under construction in Little Rock. It was one of four R&R projects then underway, and several more were in the planning stage.
The lobby of this theatre became a bank and the auditorium was sub-divided into various retail shops; they kept the Heights vertical sign and it became the Heights Shopping Center. In it’s later years, it became a 70MM house; saw Ghostbusters and missed seeing Silverado before it closed in ‘85.