Parkhill Cinema 3
1600 Howard Avenue,
Tarboro,
NC
27886
1600 Howard Avenue,
Tarboro,
NC
27886
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Parkhill Cinema 3 was never part of the Stewart & Everett or Carmike chains – the only theater in Edgecombe County owned by those chains was the Oakwood Twin in Rocky Mount.
As with so many other small, independent theaters, the Parkhill is struggling to survive; in addition to the digital conversion challenge, the mall in which it is located is also having some problems: View article.
As far as I can remember the Parkhill Cinema was always an independent – I don’t know of any S&E theater having a video store in its lobby. I remember this theater being announced in the final ads for the Colonial Theater downtown, leading me to believe the Colonial’s then-owners were the Parkhill’s owners. Also, S&E had just pulled out of Williamston the previous year – why build a new three-screen in a similarly-sized town? The Parkhill Cinema was probably the last cinema in Eastern NC built with fewer than four screens (the only later theaters with less than four screens I can think of are the Cameo in Fayetteville, the Marbles IMAX Theater and possibly the Studio I & II – both in Raleigh, and the Chelsea in Chapel Hill. All of these are west of I-95).
HISTORY:
1982-1986 Stewart and Everett Theatres
1986-2002 Carmike Cinemas
2002-???? Independent
The charter school chose to locate further down on Howard Avenue; the Parkhill Cinema survives for now. Its fate may ultimately be decided by the film industry’s conversion to digital-only exhibition.
This theater is currently struggling to stay in business, being the only tenant inside the mall. There has been talk recently of turning the mall interior into a charter school; if this comes to pass, the Parkhill Cinema’s days may be numbered.
The Parkhill Cinema is accessed from the Western Boulevard side of the mall through the former Kmart entrance.