Cinema 273

Chapman Road,
Newark, DE 19702

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dallasmovietheaters
dallasmovietheaters on January 19, 2017 at 4:45 pm

Appears to have ended its run on December 31, 1987 with a double-feature of “Little American Maid” and “Lilith Unleashed”

ebdunn
ebdunn on January 19, 2017 at 2:42 pm

That is the route number (SR 273) that the theater and shopping center are on, although the shopping Center is named University Plaza.

notthatold
notthatold on November 12, 2016 at 9:34 pm

By 1978 this place was already playing adult movies. The local church groups were picketing the parking lot for a period of time. It was located in a remote corner of the shopping center but the center’s expansion eventually caused it to become connected to the rest of the stores. The theater tried switching back to PG and R films but apparently management found resistance to this business model. Marilyn Chambers once made an in-theater appearance to promote one of her films.

rivest266
rivest266 on May 16, 2016 at 8:21 pm

October 25th, 1973 grand opening ad in photo section. It started out as a more family oriented theatre.

runusmc
runusmc on September 23, 2015 at 11:29 pm

Showed xxx adult movies continuously from 1pm, 7 days a week. They would stop letting you in around 9:45 – 10pm. Had 2 hardcore films with those “interesting” coming attractions after the 2d movie. Some films stayed as long as 52 weeks or more. I knew a guy who took.his wife there thinking it was a regular movie theater. Boy, they were surprised. They had a nice little candy selection as well as cups of sodas. Some cruising occurred and sometimes when a lady came almost the entire theater of men would follow her down to her seat.