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50sSNIPES commented about Ski-Hi Drive-In on Sep 17, 2022 at 4:37 pm

Yeah you might be right Michael. The screen was gone after the early 1980s arrived.

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50sSNIPES commented about Castle Drive-In on Sep 17, 2022 at 4:16 pm

Opened in the mid-1960s and closed in the mid-1980s. The theater’s entrance was located on 7380 Korean War Veterans Memorial Highway in Minocqua.

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50sSNIPES commented about Dundale Drive-In on Sep 17, 2022 at 3:09 pm

The Dundale Opened In 1961. Construction Probably Began Earlier That Year.

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50sSNIPES commented about Camden Drive-In on Sep 17, 2022 at 2:59 pm

It was demolished later on during the decade, possibly during WWII.

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50sSNIPES commented about Mayfair Theatre on Sep 17, 2022 at 2:00 pm

You’re welcome!

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50sSNIPES commented about Mayfair Theatre on Sep 16, 2022 at 11:17 am

Right when it twinned in 1979, it was the second theater in Kingston to have more than one screen, with the first being the Kingston Triplex Cinema (first known as the ATMC Cinema, which will have its own Cinema Treasures page soon) which operated from June 1978 until the second quarter of the 1990s.

The Mayfair Twin was last operated by Cinema Centers and was closed for the final time in the middle of January 1987. The closure of the Mayfair left the Hoyts operated Kingston Triplex and the Hoyts operated Hudson Mall 6 in competition.

Sad to say is that the Mayfair Theater was demolished in 1994, and as of now a Volkswagen dealership (Romeo Volkswagen of Kingston) now sits in the site.

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50sSNIPES commented about Mayfair Theatre on Sep 16, 2022 at 10:38 am

Opened on March 25, 1967 with James Colbert in “In Like Flint”.

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50sSNIPES commented about Odeon Luxe Putney on Sep 15, 2022 at 6:24 am

I believe that this theater went back to Cannon in 1992-ish. Advertisements from 1993 says that the Putney was operated by Cannon.

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50sSNIPES commented about Seneca Queen Theatre on Sep 14, 2022 at 1:33 pm

1953

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50sSNIPES commented about Picture Show at Frontier Village on Sep 11, 2022 at 12:56 pm

Despite closing for a short time in 2010, it reopened later that same year by Picture Show Entertainments (who still runs the theater today).

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50sSNIPES commented about Harkins Sedona 6 on Sep 11, 2022 at 7:37 am

What happened to the building there?

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50sSNIPES commented about Encore Theater on Sep 11, 2022 at 7:19 am

Opened in October 1999.

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50sSNIPES commented about Picture Show at Frontier Village on Sep 11, 2022 at 6:45 am

This page needs to get updated immediately. It did close for purposes for a short period of time in 2010 but it reopened later on as the “Picture Show At Frontier Village”, and is still opened today, running first-runs.

A correction on the address is that this is located on 1771 Arizona 69, not 1771 East Highway 69.

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50sSNIPES commented about Valley Drive-In on Sep 11, 2022 at 6:26 am

Closing sometime in the late 1980s, a 1992 aerial shows that at least a little more than a half of the theater’s traces were easily visible.

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50sSNIPES commented about Star-Lite Drive-In on Sep 6, 2022 at 6:00 am

Opened On June 8, 1949.

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50sSNIPES commented about Southdale 4 on Sep 4, 2022 at 9:50 am

Closed on August 16, 1990.

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50sSNIPES commented about Patriot Cinemas The Hanover Mall on Aug 31, 2022 at 8:28 am

It was unclear why the 1973-built General Cinema Hanover Mall Cinema closed in September 1998 though. However, by newspapers from the Boston Globe, says that there was a massive error for more than a year saying that the theater was still operating under the GCC banner but there were no advertisements being displayed due to the theater’s closure.

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50sSNIPES commented about Abington Drive-In on Aug 31, 2022 at 8:28 am

Opened on August 1, 1959 with Lana Turner in “Imitation Of Life” and Audie Murphy in “No Name On The Bullet”.

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50sSNIPES commented about Patriot Cinemas The Hanover Mall on Aug 31, 2022 at 8:16 am

This theater started life as the GCC Hanover Mall Cinema Centre in September 1973 with four screens and was first operated by General Cinema. It was later renamed the GCC Hanover Mall Cinemas. For the first 25 years of operation, it was a four-screen General Cinema until ultimately closing its doors in September 1998.

Sitting abandoned for three years in total, Patriot Cinemas decided to reopen the theater (expecting in August but it was pushed forward few months ahead), added two more screens, and reopened the Hanover Mall theater as the Patriot Cinemas 1-6 on December 28, 2001. Around a couple of years later, it became the Patriot Cinemas 1-10 after four more screens were added.

It closed on March 6, 2020 due to the pandemic, and its closure was announced permanent later that September. And lastly in mid-2021, the Patriot Cinemas itself was demolished.

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50sSNIPES commented about Village Cinema on Aug 30, 2022 at 10:30 am

Both the Dixie and the Logan theaters are separated theaters. This first opened as the Logan Theatre on June 23, 1949 with Robert Young in “Adventures In Baltimore” with no extra short subjects. The Dixie Theatre nearby continued to operate until 1954 after a bit more than 40 years of operation.

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50sSNIPES commented about Community Arts Center on Aug 30, 2022 at 7:48 am

The Capitol opened on October 22, 1928 with Al Jolson’s “The Singing Fool” (unclear if any short subjects were added).

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50sSNIPES commented about Community Arts Center on Aug 30, 2022 at 6:15 am

Unclear if any short subjects were added though.

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50sSNIPES commented about Star-Lite Drive-In on Aug 28, 2022 at 12:25 pm

Opened In June 1949, Demolished In The Mid-1990s.

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50sSNIPES commented about Star-Lite Drive-In on Aug 28, 2022 at 12:09 pm

UPDATE: According To The Tampa Tribute, I just recently found that the Star-Lite closed in 1992 according to a March 30, 1999 evidence on the Star-Lite being auctioned off. Unfortunately, the theater did close on September 3, 1985 with those two films because it failed to draw an amount of people since 1981. I guess it did reopen either a couple or few years later. Not sure what happened afterward.

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50sSNIPES commented about Family Drive-In on Aug 28, 2022 at 11:57 am

Opened with “Ali Baba And The Forty Thieves” along with an unnamed cartoon and an unnamed comedy reel.