Pleasant Valley Promenade 7
6240 Glenwood Avenue,
Raleigh,
NC
27612
6240 Glenwood Avenue,
Raleigh,
NC
27612
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This is another very nice, personal theater that has fallen victim to the megaplex. It is sentimental to me, since I have so many childhood memories of it. It’s a great theater, typical General Cinema style building. Hope it reopens soon. If anyone knows any more info on this place, I’d appreciate hearing from you.
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It’s a Golds Gym now :–(
I would have given anything to be able to go inside it one more time before they gutted it…it was brutal to watch.
Some interior photos here. Function should be gym:
http://tinyurl.com/555pwx
When it closed in 2001,it fell prey to the megaplexes that were being built on that strip of Glenwood Avenue
which fell to the opening of the Raleigh Grande Cinema at the intersection of Glenwood Ave. and Lynn Road and further up the street on Glenwood Avenue the Brier Creek Cinemas 14 near RDU Airport.
The way the hallways were leading to the screens, it felt like I was walking through an airport terminal and the employees there were just awful.
Once was reinstated as a discount theatre at one time to give competition to Blue Ridge Cinemas which was over on the other side of Raleigh near the state fairgrounds. The discount part of Pleasant Valley 7 didn’t work,and it closed for good after that. The area where the cinema used to be is now a Gold’s Gym.
Photo of the Pleasant Valley Cinemas is on this site from 1992….
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The photo contains the only General Cinema Theatre operating in the Triangle area(Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill)
The company that re-opened Pleasant Valley as a discount house was called Entertainment Film Works (EFW). They signed leases and opened up a handful of closed theaters around the same time as Pleasant Valley. They didn’t pay their rent or bills at most of their locations. Some of landlords threw them out, and in some locations (like Pleasant Valley) they just suddenly closed and very quickly moved out, in some cases owing thousands. They closed Pleasant Valley with almost no notice. They actually opened the theater for the day that day. After the first set of films was started, the staff was informed that they were closing effective immediately. They actually did OK there, and it seemed to be getting better all the time. I am convinced that if it was run properly it could have thrived as a discount house. For some more info on EFW, search “EFW” on the website film-tech.com in the “film-yak” forum.
From Boxoffice April 1993. Jan.5 1993 a gunman shot himself in the head at the Pleasant Valley Cinemas.While watching “A FEW GOOD MEN”,moviegoers thought it was part of the movie until they found a man slumped over a seat.Police said the man was a suspect in an earlier Raleigh shooting.The film includes a Suicide scene! Really surprized theatre folks in that area did not include this in earlier posts.
I had forgotten about that. I was working at another theater and had a friend who worked there at the time and supposedly he had killed his “partner” at an apartment complex nearby then headed over to the theater and killed himself at the part in A few good men where JT walsh commits suicide. Creepy.
Anybody know where there might be pics of the place’s interior from back when it was a theater? Or any other cool stories about it. On that note, is there anywhere I could find GCC memorabilia?