Hoyts Waterville 6
250 Kennedy Memorial Drive,
Waterville,
ME
04941
250 Kennedy Memorial Drive,
Waterville,
ME
04941
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Opened in February 1968 as a twin. Cinema 1 seated 700 and Cinema 2 seated 480. It had wall to wall curved screens, rocking chair seats. White walls, red seats and screens (with side masking) had curtains. Cinema 1 opened with “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner” and Cinema 2 opened with “Thoroughly Modern Millie”.
Two additional theaters were added in 1971. Both Cinemas 3 and 4 seated 200. They were just smaller versions of Cinema 1 and 2.
In 1977 Cinema 1 was split into 2 theaters. In 1979 the original Cinema 2 was split into two 200 seat theaters.
Closed in 2002, it became a church.
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Duane Luce
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PLEASE ADD TO THE ADDRESS:
250 KENNEDY MEMORIAL DR 04901.
AKA:
CINEMA CENTER SIXPLEX.
OWNERS:
1980-1985 SBC Management Corporation?
1990-2002 Hoyts Cinema Corporation?
It was an SBC theater as early as mid 70’s. I am not sure but was a Lockwood & Gordon theater when built. They aslo owned the State theater in Waterville as well as the Haines Theater.
Lockwood & Gordon opened this theatre in 1968 and operated it until 1975 when it fell under the SBC banner, SBC operated it until 1989 and Hoyts took over operations in January 1990. Rivests website is off on their dates.
It was first opened as “Cinema 1 and 2” and later re-named “Cinema Center”. Did not have rocking chair seats. Longest-running feature was “Smokey and the Bandit” at 26 weeks, biggest bomb was “Harold and Maude”(4 days, 27 patrons).
Waterville was also home to one of the few “Jerry Lewis Cinemas” which became the “PLaza Cinema” and eventually a porn house.
Scene of a local riot in the 1970’s when they presented a midnight showing of “Night of the Living Dead” that oversold.