Park Terrace Stadium 6
4289 Park Road,
Charlotte,
NC
28209
4289 Park Road,
Charlotte,
NC
28209
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The 1,000 seat, Park Terrace Theater opened on May 28, 1964. The grand opening ceremonies included a fireworks display, music by the Charlotte College Choir, and speaches by the Mayor Pro Tem, President of the Chamber of Commerce, and a local radio personality named Ty Boyd. At 9:10 p.m. the first movie, "Captain Newman" with Gregory Peck and Tony Curtis ran. Coming attractions included “Flipper’s New Adventure”, “What a Way to Go” with Shirley McLain, and “Good Neighbor Sam” with Jack Lemmon.
The Park Terrace advertised “a startling concept in theatre comfort, and attractiveness where you will experience a new world of motion picture enjoyment.” The theater had a large glass enclosed lobby and “air-flo rocking chairs”. For 1964 it was revolutionary, and Charlotte loved it. In the late-1960’s the Park Terrace Theater offered a long extended run of Disney’s “Mary Poppins”.
The Park Road shopping center opened in the late-1950’s. This was Charlotte’s first big shopping center, and featured acres of parking, and numerous stores and restaurants. Like the theater, it was revoluntionary. It’s still a popular and attractive shopping center.
Along the way the Park Terrace Theater went multi-screen / stadium seating. It’s last expansion was in 1995. The art moderne exterior is still in place. It’s charmingly dated.
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…and is there a reason why the capsule will be opened on May 11th as opposed to the grand opening of May 28th
Steven Spielburg’s THE COLOR PURPLE was one of three theatres in North Carolina that was given the exclusive engagement showings when it opened on December 20,1985 at the Park Terrace Theatre(when it was a three-screen cinema…the movie was shown on its huge auditorium with full widescreen projection).
Other cities in North Carolina that got the exclusive engagement run were in these cities:
-Raleigh (Valley Twin)
-Greensboro (Janus)
Tim Mason was manager on June 3 1983 a Plitt Theatre.
I saw Close Encounters there as well!
MikeRogers:
Tim Mason was also the manager when RETURN OF THE JEDI played here during its run.
I saw TOP GUN here at the Park Terrace when it was a Plitt Theatre.
The lines the weekend it opened snaked around the corner.
From an old Charlotte Plitt Meno,Tim Mason sold $27,563 in reduced admission tickets,I sincerely hoped they shared a per centage like GCC did with their Managers.These tickets,for those of you that do not know were sold to businesses,Schools,hospitals for those employees to see a movie for about 50 cents off the Box office price.RATS as we called them.Wow,raysson you truly know CAROLINA theatres.
Walt Disney’s MARY POPPINS played at the Park Terrace Theatre on January 22,1965 as its only Exclusive Engagement Showing in the Carolinas.It was one of the Reserved Seat Engagements in several theaters in the South.
Other cities wouldn’t get the film until April or June of 1965 as a general release in both the Carolinas.
FIDDLER ON THE ROOF when it played as a roadshow engagement at Charlotte’s Park Terrace Theatre on March 24,1972 was the only showing of the film in the Carolinas. It was a Reserved Seat Engagement with advance tickets on sale before performances. Other cities didn’t get FIDDLER ON THE ROOF until late-1972 or early 1973,even though the film was originally released on November 3,1971.
Old Plitt employees go to REMEMBERING PLITT THEATRES on Facebook, it is there for you.