Regency Mall Cinema I-II-III
1700 Gordon Highway,
Augusta,
GA
30904
1700 Gordon Highway,
Augusta,
GA
30904
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The Cinema and the mall opened July 27, 1978 as a triplex with three side-by-side auditoriums and was one of the last of the Riseman designs for GCC – red carpet – white candy stand – red and blue wallpaper in the lobby, with gray Alpro paneling and white and red Griggs seats in the auditorium.
It closed in 1996 when the mall went into severe decline. It sits there today along with the rest of the mall closed and abandoned.
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thanks for the comments,it was fun working there, i had a key to THE MALL!!!!!!!!!
Hey Japatters, I know you……early 90s. You dated a friend of mine named Brian.
Hey, Mike, and anyone else who remembers…I just ran into the guy who used to be the assistant manager at Taco Viva, under Burles Johnson. I can’t believe I can’t remember his name…I JUST saw him about an hour ago!! My mind is really getting old! Very nice guy. We tried to talk about Taco Viva and the theater but those daggone customers kept walking up!! I remember we used to do umpteen promotions with them ALL THE TIME! They had one night during the week when they sold tacos for some ridiculously low price! Us bachelors LOVED that! I remember on Mother’s Day, we worked out a deal with them that a customer could come to them and redeem a ticket stub for a free apple pie. Mmmmmmmm, think I’ll go get me some Taco Bell for supper tonight!
Russell wasn’t his name Clint and he moved into security.you need to get on facebook, i have met so many guys ,and a few gals that have plenty of theatre stories.
I worked and Managed here in the 90s. We had radios that worked throughout the mall. I remember taking change from everyone and going to the cookie store when they sold all the cookies half price afer 8:30. chick fil a sanwiches were also a dollar at closing. I remember the crowd laughing so hard during Boomerang that I was upstairs closing, and I thought a bomb had gone off or something crashed.
Hey, Ginger! I don’t know you, but you came a few years after I left there. I managed both theaters for a few years…ran the triple, opened the Exchange, and then ran both of them. I really enjoyed it. I was fired! Yup, given the old boot by Larry Anderson…he thought he gathered evidence that indicated that I was turning in false receipts for work not done. I would never do that, and it took them awhile to figure out that I didn’t do that…or at least they gave me the benefit of the doubt. A couple of months after being fired, they called me back to Atlanta and Larry Pittman, the regional vice-president, offered me my job back, but at a theater in Atlanta. Said they couldn’t offer me Augusta back because Scott Nirenberg (spelling?) had the job and they didn’t want to yank him out after he got it. I politely told them no, thank you. I guess they realized that I wasn’t the only manager doing the receipt thing…I learned it from my old manager. If you need something done…like getting shelves made and put up…and you KNOW that Anderson wasn’t going to approve it, then you get the money in the “back door” to get it done. Anderson didn’t care how it got done, he just wanted things done, so there you go! Anyway, I can certainly see now how it looked bad. But there was no ill gotten gains. Oh, well. Everything happens for a reason and I certainly don’t feel bitter about it since they offered me my job back. Pittman told me they wouldn’t offer the job to someone they thought was a thief! Okay, so now that that is out of the way, remind me who your projectionists were. Was Chuck Dray still around then? What manager did you take over for? Was Scott Dean the assistant when you were there or did he leave by then? How about Herbert Watts, the janitor? He was great! You may not have really appreciated him then, but unless you managed in another city, you realized that Herbert and his family were gold! Was Larry Anderson still the DM when you were there or did he move on? Did you know Craig Zacker or did he retire by then? I just don’t remember, since it was so long ago. Okay, I think that’s PLENTY for now…I’ll let you digest all this and respond!
I think Chuck had passed away,Bill Barkley and Mr.Hanson were running her Booth.Ginger if you do Facebook,on my wall.Photos; have pictures from “GENERAL CINEMA DAYS'.
You know one day, you might have been off, which is hard to believe,i think I worked every day for that $200.00 salary we got, I think you figured it up we were making about $1.89 an hour,the candy girls making $3.75 i think.But any way one of Girls brought a camera and snapped a bunch of Photos at
Regency,Boym
BOY< WOULD I LIKE TO HAVE A few of them pics now…..
Mike?? What is the “Facebook” of which you speak? NEVER heard of it!