I saw “Eraser” here on July 2, 1996. I don’t remember anything that really stood out, but I did find it amusing that the posters used were for the US market and the MPAA rating was obscured. Also, James Earl Jones voiced over a commercial for a performance, but I can’t remember what…
This was an outparcel at a shopping center. I saw “The Cat From Outer Space” here in 1979. It was the only movie my grandmother took my sister and I to see.
In the 90s, this was the closest Athens came to a cinema and drafthouse. I saw a Looney Tunes festival, “Monty Python and the Holy Grail,” and “I Shot Andy Warhol” here. That mainly happened on Mondays-Wednesdays, and mostly during the summer.
Among the concerts I saw here were Mojo Nixon and They Might Be Giants.
This theater had a policy trailer that announced the theater’s staff. Among the staff was Al Johnson, the custodian. Al always got a thunderous applause, as the theater was the cleanest in town.
The last film shown at this theater was “Penitentiary,” with Leon Isaac Kennedy. I remember driving by this theater soon after it closed. The building was being gutted.
It initially opened on July 10, 1975 (which, incidentally, was my father’s 30th birthday) as the Columbus Square Twin, replacing the Beverly Theater at Columbus Square Mall. Sometime around 1978 or 1979, two additional screens were added. From the aerial picture, the new auditoriums were the ones that had vertical A/C units (I think) on the top.
In the summer of 1982, four more screens were added. I remember seeing “Annie” in auditorium #8 (the auditorium featured upper right based on the picture). Most of the big films that played at a Martin/Carmike played here until 1988, when the Carmike Cinema 7 was opened. The theater further declined in 1993 when a new theater at Peachtree Mall was built.
Eventually, the theater was closed in 2003, and demolished soon thereafter.
Regal Cinemas now operates this theater as of September 4, 2015.
This theater now occupies a space that was once a Circuit City. You could not tell it was anything else inside
I saw “Eraser” here on July 2, 1996. I don’t remember anything that really stood out, but I did find it amusing that the posters used were for the US market and the MPAA rating was obscured. Also, James Earl Jones voiced over a commercial for a performance, but I can’t remember what…
This theater closed March 2015. Second run movies in Gwinnett County now show at Venture Cinema 12 in Duluth.
This is the first stadium-seating theater in the state of Georgia, if I recall correctly. 21 years later, it’s still doing business.
The theater was demolished in 2014 and is now the site of a Dick’s Sporting Goods. The address is 150 Pearl Nix Parkway, Gainesville, GA 30501
This is my neighborhood theater. It opened around Thanksgiving 1996 with 14 screens. I don’t know when the 15th screen was added.
This was an outparcel at a shopping center. I saw “The Cat From Outer Space” here in 1979. It was the only movie my grandmother took my sister and I to see.
In the 90s, this was the closest Athens came to a cinema and drafthouse. I saw a Looney Tunes festival, “Monty Python and the Holy Grail,” and “I Shot Andy Warhol” here. That mainly happened on Mondays-Wednesdays, and mostly during the summer.
Among the concerts I saw here were Mojo Nixon and They Might Be Giants.
Among the last films shown at the Classic Triple were “Speed,” and “I Love Trouble.” The latter film was the last film I saw here.
This theater had a policy trailer that announced the theater’s staff. Among the staff was Al Johnson, the custodian. Al always got a thunderous applause, as the theater was the cleanest in town.
The last film shown at this theater was “Penitentiary,” with Leon Isaac Kennedy. I remember driving by this theater soon after it closed. The building was being gutted.
I have more information about this theater.
It initially opened on July 10, 1975 (which, incidentally, was my father’s 30th birthday) as the Columbus Square Twin, replacing the Beverly Theater at Columbus Square Mall. Sometime around 1978 or 1979, two additional screens were added. From the aerial picture, the new auditoriums were the ones that had vertical A/C units (I think) on the top.
In the summer of 1982, four more screens were added. I remember seeing “Annie” in auditorium #8 (the auditorium featured upper right based on the picture). Most of the big films that played at a Martin/Carmike played here until 1988, when the Carmike Cinema 7 was opened. The theater further declined in 1993 when a new theater at Peachtree Mall was built.
Eventually, the theater was closed in 2003, and demolished soon thereafter.