Cinema 5
116 Heister Street,
State College,
PA
16803
116 Heister Street,
State College,
PA
16803
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Carmike’s Cinema 5 is located at 116 Heister Street in State College, PA. Cinema 5 was once a two screen house, until the early 1980’s when Cinemette renovated the theater, and turned it into a five screen house.
The Cinema 5 was the last movie theater in operation in downtown State College. It closed December 20, 2007.
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well it’s not the last movie theatre downtown, the fact that the State has lasted since the 30s is pretty impressive. It is the last remaining movie theatre downtown, though I’ll conceed that the 5 was the last to show movie’s like superbad and talladega nights, thankfully they’ve been relegated to the suburbs. And don’t worry we will soon have a brand new goverment subsidized state-of-the-art multiplex on Fraser. What the free-market couldn’t do, the borough will perfect. i’m still surprised the 6 is still around, and I keep getting ads for management positions at Carmike Cinemas, they must be making one last stab at it.
Here is an October 10, 1967 article about the opening from the Daily Collegian:
http://tinyurl.com/6nfrco
Interesting. Thanks.
This is a photo of the Cinema 5.
It’s been too long since I’ve been to this page. Great find, Chuck1231! I wonder where this company found all these photos. This was the first time I saw a picture of the theatre as a twin. Also, I found the Arena on the site.
I have upload a few pictures to the link below. More of the “technical” pictures appear towards the end of the album. I will try to upload more photos as time permits. ~Jarryd
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Here is another photo of Cinema 5.
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Sorry Jack. When Facebook changed their privacy options, I must have made all my albums visible to friends only. This should be corrected now.
Does anyone know the status of this theater now? Is it for sale?
Thanks!
This is the theater that housed all the Star Wars reissues in 1997; considering the surrounding choices at the time, it was not a half-bad presentation and they put in DTS sound around 1996.