Alps Cinema
191 Alps Road,
Athens,
GA
30606
191 Alps Road,
Athens,
GA
30606
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The Alps Cinema was a very small theatre opened in 1968. In 1974 Weis took over operation. In 1984 Litchfield took over extremely briefly, then turned over to Georgia Theatre Company. United Artists took over GTC operations in 1988 and quickly divested the cinema. It then became Abrams Alps Cinema. A longtime adult or dollar house, it flirted with independent film briefly before closing in 2000. A victim of expanding multiples and a redeveloping shopping center, no trace of the Alps Cinema remains visible.
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I can’t say for sure because i live inAugusta now,maybe someone from Athens will see this and let you know. It was in walking distance of the BEECHWOOD 1 and 2.
The Alps was located where the Kroger is now and on the same side of the street as the Chili’s.
That’s what I thought. I wonder how long that space sat vacant between 2000 (when it closed) and 2003/2004 when it reopened as a Kroger. I also wonder if they just razed it to the ground and started over or just remodeled the existing interior/exterior to make it into a grocery store.
Doonyman, it would very unlikely that they redid the theatre, considering the proto-type stores that Kroger was building at the time. I would assume that the demolished the former theatre and started from the ground up.
Doonyman,I came across a picture of the ALPS the other day. A local theatre group was using it for a play i guess back in the middle 90’s.
Wait a second, wasn’t the Alps Theater at the very end of the shopping center, closest to Baxter? Isn’t the Kroger at the other end?
yes, Joshmassey it was at the very end of the shopping center. I have pictures,but not the equipment to get them on.
Sorry.
This theater had a policy trailer that announced the theater’s staff. Among the staff was Al Johnson, the custodian. Al always got a thunderous applause, as the theater was the cleanest in town.
neat,never heard of that…..Mpc.