Waltham Cinema I & II
475 Winter Street,
Waltham,
MA
475 Winter Street,
Waltham,
MA
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Waltham now has something much better, and more centrally located: Landmark’s six-screen Embassy Cinema, in the heart of downtown just off Moody Street.
Didn’t mean to imply that General Cinema was a small chain, but that the string of G.C. “buck houses” represented a relatively small subset of theaters owned by a company that largely focused on first run exhibition.
If memory serves, the Waltham Cinema I & II closed for business sometime around 1988 or ‘89.
The Waltham Cinema was called a “buck house” along with Stoneham, Fresh Pond Cambridge, and Saugus. These Cinemas played after the first run
Peabody, Framingham, Braintree, Burlington, and Westgate Mall Brockton, in the Rte 128 perimeter of Boston. They were all General Cinemas, not a small chain at all.