Tryon Mall 4
4500 North Tryon Street,
Charlotte,
NC
28213
4500 North Tryon Street,
Charlotte,
NC
28213
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Tryon Mall was the sister theater to the Queens Park 6. Although she has been closed only three years more than Queens, the Tryon sits in a white wash of decay.
Her marquee is falling and bricks have been busted out of her side and the whole building has been painted ghastly white. At the time I went looking for this theater I found her front sidewalk to be temporary storage for the tranmission shop located 20 feet in front of her.
The theater is located in the back of the mall.
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Hey,Mark since you live near GASTONIA,did you ever hear the story about the murders at Diane 29 Drive-in in Gastonia? For years I have heard what happen and have the story on the Diane 29 Drive-in site. But never got it confirmed by a local. Or what is true or not about the story.
JAWS was one of the several theatres in North Carolina that released the film during its initial release on June 20, 1975.
It did played here at the Tryon Mall Cinema when it a twin theatre.
It was however re-released later on that year at either the Capri or the Park Terrace or maybe the Charlottetown in late-1975 or early-1976.
I know “JAWS II” played there my friend John Mackey was managing it.He had a projectionist there I think in his 80’s when I visited,don’t know how he managed those large 35mm reels.
Oh,they forgot to send a reel back when they tore down “JAWS II” and John kept it for months finally giving it to me,I passed it on to the projectionist at the IMPERIAL in Augusta,don’t know what Bill did with it.
Shook Charlton Heston’s hand in the lobby of this theatre as he toured with his forgettable film “The Mountain Men” (1980) – but what a gentleman (and handsome too)! Saw “Jaws” here – blew me away, there had never been a film like that before! (well, at least not for me) Also met David Carradine at the Tryon Mall Theatre but can’t remember the name of the film…must have really been a forgettable one…
I have always wanted to see “MOUNTAIN MEN” is it that bad.
Yep – pretty bad – I remember Charlton (well, his character) rolling down a mountain fighting somebody and that’s about it. By the way, back up there at raysson’s comment on June 18 – Jaws never played at the Capri (Jaws II might have).
I was there for the opening of the Tryon Mall that Mark in NC references Feb. 7, 2010 – it was exciting to go to a new theatre and go back to school and tell everyone about it. But that’s another movie I remember little about.
Here are my pictures from December 2010.
Tryon Mall Twin was a nice place when ABC and Plitt had it.