Overlake Cinema
14505 NE 20th Street,
Bellevue,
WA
98007
14505 NE 20th Street,
Bellevue,
WA
98007
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Closed February 1993.
The Overlake closed in the early 1990s, and was demolished in the mid-1990s.
I think that the theatre visited by PopcornNRoses may have been the Crossroads in Bellevue. Originally a large single screen operated by National General Theatres, a smaller second auditorium was added across the lobby from the original house. Many years later, the large house was poorly split into 3 small auditoriums. It was later demolished and replaced with the “New” Crossroads Cinema
The address was 14505 NE 20th St
Good looking ads.
February 13th, 1973 grand opening ad placed here.
That is quite a task,Popcornroses to track down every theatre you visted,Good luck.
While I’m over here, I hope someone can help me. I’m trying to pin down EVERY theater I’ve ever visited, and one of those is in Bellevue. My aunt lived here in the mid 70s, and we came to visit her in the spring of 1978. while in town, she and mom took me to see Disney’s “Return From Witch Mountain”. I know the theater we went to wasn’t that far from her house (don’t ask me the address, I can’t remember at all) and it was a twin, with the theater we were seated in being rather large – I remember commenting to my mom that I had only been in one other theater that was even larger, and that was the SouthCenter Cinema in Tukwila a couple years earlier. Could this have been the theater?
Anyone who might be able to help me shed some light on which cinema this might have been, I would be most appreciative and my theater list will be that much closer to being complete!
Thanks popcorn and roses.missed the part above earlier where the staff was unionized at this GCC.Bet, that was fun for and overworked,underpaid theatre manager.
Don’t know if anyone here has been there, but there’s a Tulsa site that pays homage to GCC, complete with jingle and policy trailers:
http://tulsatvmemories.com/gccvill.html
Thought you might want to check it out, seeing as you’re starting a GCC society and all…heh heh heh…
Hey,I want to be a part of a GCC society I worked for them as an assistant in two GCC theatres in Augusta and Athens Georgia,both on CT.
Does anyone have any pictures?
Loved working there. Except having to pop popcorn upstairs! awful.
My favorite time was when we had American Graffiti in Cinema 2 and The Sting in Cinema 1.
When DavyDuck says the spilled drink went all the way to the front, he kids not. I remember many times at Renton Village being on hands & knees scraping that nasty stuff off the floor along with all kinds of candy and popcorn mixed in. Once you were done that task, you didn’t eat the stuff for weeks! It was fun to work at Overlake, I remember doing some late deposits at the bank after closing along with the manager. I also remember replacing the seat covers all the time, because of smokers leaving live cigs on them. I also remember a night where we had to take a seat out of Cinema I because it was still burning. Fun times!
Actually, send them to me and I’ll make sure they get posted on Cinematour with proper credit to your name.
The registration process at Cinematour is fairly automated. As long as you register with your real name and not a handle it should let you register. And you can e-mail photos to and he’ll get them up eventually.
Sadly, nearly a year later, this site still says it’s not accepting photos. I do have a few to post. Cinematours never sent me a password, either. Anybody have any ideas?
Mark,
Ross Melnick, Adam Martin and I have all met and had lunch a few times. Both websites certainly compliment each other and we recognize the same strengths you mention above.
i must say i remember working for gcc in austin tx and i remember the blazers and ties they gave us to were and also giving those math tests to teens looking for jobs
I hope the folks at Cinema Treasures don’t mind when I suggest posting to Cinematour. I feel that both sites complement each other, Cinema Tour being the site that has the massive archive of photos, and Cinema Treasures keeping ongoing historic archive of stories, comments and experiences for each theatre (with hopefully, one day, pictures). I do see people cross-linking each site with each other in each others comment/forum areas (did that make any sense??)
Please do. We cross link to CinemaTreasures wherever possible.
DavyDuck, in the meantime why not send photos to Cinematour?
Will post photos when that feature is back up.
So the president thought those white seats looked “elegant” huh. There are many words that come to mind when thinking about a typical 70s era General Cinema. Elegant, however, is not one of them.
Why white seat backs? Of course we wondered about that too, the official answer was “so you can see when they need cleaning”. We made cleaner’s wages – about twice our usher wages – to paint seats at night, so we didn’t complain about the seemingly flippant answer. Years later when I was a manager, I asked the division manager if we could get urinal blocks or fragrance sprays. He said, if the restrooms are clean, you won’t need that. Clean the restrooms. Well, turns out that’s true, so maybe that really does apply somehow to the white seat backs. Really though, I suppose Richard A. Smith, the GCC president, saw white seat backs somewhere and thought they looked elegant. Unfortunately, there was the GCC enigma (thanks D. Roben, the perfect phrase) at work – the auditorium floors were a continuous slope back to front, a spilled drink travelled clear to the bottom. Had they fixed that flaw, the seat backs might have stayed clean.