Friendly Cinema

dallasmovietheaters on February 5, 2019 at 4:59 am

Bayville’s Berekley Plaza at 451 U.S. 9 had a long-running A&P Grocery Store as its anchor and at the opposite end it had Music Makers Circuit’s 12th location in its Berkeley Cinema I & II. The Berkeley Cinema I & II launched with “Soylent Green” and “Walt Disney’s The World’s Greatest Athlete” on April 18, 1973. When Music Makers sold to Loews in 1986, the cinema became known as Loews Cinema I & II. Loews dropped the theatre on June 7, 1990. It cited the opening of the 10-screen Seacourt Pavillion seven miles away as its reason.

On March 27, 1992 and under new operators, the theatre relaunched as the Friendly Cinema. It closed after completing a 25-year leasing cycle with “Black Dog,” “City of Angels,” and “Dirty Work” on July 23, 1998.