Edina Cinema
3911 W. 50th Street,
Edina,
MN
55424
3911 W. 50th Street,
Edina,
MN
55424
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I don’t know why the link in my previous comment isn’t working. Maybe this one will.
Mann Theatres, who operated the Edina briefly in the 1970s, announced that they were returning to the house with plans to renovate and reopen it. This article in TCB Magazine says that the plans include a bar and, in one small auditorium, a stage for intimate live performances. A mixture of first-run Hollywood movies and independent films is planned. They expect to have the theater reopened sometime this coming summer.
The Edina Cinema closed for the COVID-19 pandemic n March 16, 2020. Landmark Theatres announced in May of 2021 that the closure would be permanent.
August 31st, 1934, December 25th, 1976, December 5th, 1980 and December 16th, 1988 grand opening ads in the photo section.
August 31st, 1934 grand opening ad in the photo section.
20 years
Found on Newspapers.com
1959 photo with Edina on the far left. Copy & paste to view.
http://www.edinahistoricalsociety.org/blog/category/all/25
I saw a re-release of Star Wars here back in 1979 or so, as well as Robocop (while it was still a triplex). After the 1989 remodel, it became one of my favorite theaters to see new movies (if not my favorite). I saw Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Jurassic Park, Batman, The Lost World (JP2) all in their initial runs here and many other movies here in the 1990s.
This was one of the typical Cineplex Odeon “Jewelbox” theatre built in the late 1980’s.
Typical Cineplex Odeon carpet, the same carpet is used in the Montréal area’s Langelier 6 (now Guzzo) and Cote des Neiges 7 (now Foutune)
This is my favorite Twin Cities cineplex. The interior has an art deco look and feel to it that in a way makes it seem like a glitsy classic theater. I’m glad that the original exterior front facade and marquee was save and incorporated into the new cineplex. I look at this theater and wonder why this kind of development doesn’t happen more often instead of complete demolition.
The architect of the Edina Theater was Jack Liebenberg (Seeman Kaplan his partner was the busnessman and engineer in the practice).
Architect is listed as “unknown” but first sentence credits (and correctly) Liebenberg & Kaplan. The correct entry in the architect field will get a truer search result when querying by “architect."
Thanks!
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