Lindbergh 8 Cinema
7545 South Lindbergh Boulevard,
St. Louis,
MO
63123
7545 South Lindbergh Boulevard,
St. Louis,
MO
63123
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The area where the theater once stood is now part of a small shopping plaza which housed (until March of this year) a Missouri Career Center (unemployment office).
Discount operation began in mid-December 1989, a month and a half after Wehrenberg bought the General Cinema operations in Missouri.
When was this converted from a first-run theater to a dollar show?
When it opened in July 1987 theatre was known as the Lindbergh Plaza 8. The first manager was David McCann, brought from the Northwest Plaza.
The building was demolished, the office building where the theatre stood is two stories.
I can only remember this theater as being a discounted one opened by Wehrenberg. I only went to this theater in the mid 1990s to see things like Casper, Beethoven, Psycho remake, and The Lost World.
Funny thing about the architecture, General Cinemas must have opened similar built 8 screen theaters in other cities as I can remember seeing a movie in Ft. Wayne IN and the theater looking exactly identical to the Lindbergh 8. The lobby and theater arrangement was completely identical.
Is it just me, or does anyone else ever think/feel that these discount theaters are not up to par as the “real” ones? I don’t mean to sound like a snob but I always felt this way about these second-run theaters….the pricing is great but it feels so sub-par…probably because I’m usually one of the only ones inside the theater.
This theater closed when Wehrenberg went bankrupt. It was completed torn down and replaced with a new office building adjacent to the Home Depot that’s down that way.