Blackbox Theater

421 E. Sugar Creek Road,
Charlotte, NC 28213

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Mike Rogers
Mike Rogers on February 23, 2010 at 8:21 pm

Hey,Mark since you live near GASTONIA,did you ever hear the story about the murders at Diane 29 Drive-in in Gastonia? For years I have heard what happen and have the story on the Diane 29 Drive-in site. But never got it confirmed by a local. Or what is true or not about the story.

ncmark
ncmark on February 7, 2010 at 1:12 pm

The Tryon Mall opened on March 24, 1972 with the Paul Newman movie ‘Pocket Money’. It was billed as an Ultravision theater and was the last single screen cinema built in Charlotte. It must hold some sort of record for being twinned though as it opened the second screen on December 25, 1974. I guess that short time frame is part of the reason I couldn’t remember it being a single screener. It was converted to four screens in 1984 and in its last years was a discount house. In the early years it was a very nice theater with some good local exclusives including ‘The Way We Were’, ‘Earthquake’ and ‘Jaws’. The building has housed a variety of different nightclubs and it looks like work is current being done on the building for some other venture.

Mike Rogers
Mike Rogers on September 27, 2009 at 4:15 pm

I CAN NOT BELIEVE I FINALLY FOUND THIS THEATRE. I KEPT PUNCHING IN TRYON MALL 1 and 2 THEATRES. I SHOULD HAVE KNOWN IT HAD BEEN EXPANED LIKE EVERY THEATRE EVERYWHERE I GUSS THAT IS WHY THE SUITS RUN THE BUSINESS AND NOT THEATRE LOVERS. SHORT STORY, MY FRIEND JOHN MACKEY RAN THE 1 and 2 THEATRES FOR ABC THEATRES. HE STARTED IN ASHVILLE, SENT DOWN TO GEORGIA AT AUGUSTA' S BEAUTIFUL NATIONAL HILLS THEATRE AND HE WAS MOVED TO THE GASTON MALL…THEN THE BIG CITY OF CHARLOTTE. MY FRIEND AND ASSISTANT MANAGER, TOMMY CAPERS AND MYSELF DROPPED IN TO SEE JOHN COMING BACK FROM THE BEACH. BOTH OF US WORKING FOR abc theatres WERE QUICKY PUT TO WORK HELPING HIM WITH JAWS 2 WE DID NOT MIND. I HAD BEEN THERE BEFORE WATCHING A PREVIEW OF THE MOVIE MIDWAY BEFORE IT WAS RELEASED. SAT IN THERE WITH ALL THE BIG FILM BOOKERS IN CHARLOTTE. for the record, I HATED JAWS 2.

ncmark
ncmark on December 3, 2008 at 9:31 pm

This theater opened in 1971 as a twin. It was split into 4 screens in 1984.

raysson
raysson on October 16, 2008 at 2:58 pm

Tryon Mall Theatre was owned and operated by ABC Southeastern Theatres and later on by Plitt Theatres(which at one time owned and operated Park Terrace Cinemas). I do remember the Tryon Mall. It was huge.
They have the largest Woolworth’s Department Store I ever saw(it was called Woolco). Sorta like K-Mart but like a 1960’s version of a SuperTarget.

raysson
raysson on August 30, 2008 at 4:52 pm

Located at the intersection of South Tryon Street and Sugar Creek Road in the Tryon Mall Shopping Center(which was Charlotte’s second largest indoor shopping center during the mid-1960’s and 1970’s it competition with Charlottetowne Mall). I believe the Tryon Mall Theatre opened in 1965 as a single screen theatre,built a second auditorium in the early 1970’s,and remained that way until the late 1980’s and mid-1990’s when the Tryon Mall Theatre closed its doors forever.