Its really a pity someone in this city has not tried to do some kind of histories of all the theatres.I have done it AUGUSTA.GA putting all our theatres on facebook.sad….yeah,it takes time,but on fACEBOOK I have found the locals love it and I do direct them to cinematreasures all the time..
there was another theatre in NEWPORT away from town because I remember TROG playing there,sorta away from downtown, but not way out like the drive ins..
wish it were clearer….
another one in Atlanta also opened all abc theatres..same look..
this Columbia 1 and 2 in AUGUSTA .GA The twin theatre in KNOXVILLE CEDAR BLUFF 1 and 2 looked just like us,Weopened the same time they did..
we opened with nickelodeon,,,what a bomb..
stan.i knew a neil morgan, but he was an assistant in augusta,probably not your guy.
Its really a pity someone in this city has not tried to do some kind of histories of all the theatres.I have done it AUGUSTA.GA putting all our theatres on facebook.sad….yeah,it takes time,but on fACEBOOK I have found the locals love it and I do direct them to cinematreasures all the time..
my cousin rAY ROGERS did a lot of work fixing problems in the booth, he was also a manager in Hendersonville NC right up the interstate..
cover of the MOUNTAIN XPRESS…april 25 2018.
MAY 1 2018….NOT 2017…..stupid me…..
great story chris…
great times……
I thought ultravision was around in the late sixties…
thanxs for the info..
time flies rubberduckie 28..
mall is dead, I guess the little 8 plex keeps going, really sad..
I got a ton of one sheets out of that old theatre….
I can still remember the smell inside..
my cousin,ray who has since died did go in the old theatres and snap some pictures for me,but he never got them to me,began ill..
I have pictures of the drive in after it closed..
there was another theatre in NEWPORT away from town because I remember TROG playing there,sorta away from downtown, but not way out like the drive ins..
it was a sorry theatre from what I could see,,i guess they drive to Knoxville for movies..lots of folks live there..
I don’t know…
you can barely see the screen now and believe or not the screen is in great shape..
might be open for another year, but not much longer…sad thing is,it makes money for second run..
yep, museum sits there now….ACDECOSTER….