The Town and Country Shopping Plaza was proposed in 1961 and opened theatre-lessly in 1967. That changed when George Leipold opened the 322-seat, suburban luxury cinema, the Holiday Theatre, there on July 8, 1971. Opening film was “Escape from Planet of the Apes” with an in-person appearance by The Space Ape.
In November of 1971, the policy changed to Spanish language films on weekdays and porno chic x-rated films on weekends. In 1973, the Spanish films were replaced with Blaxploitation films. The theatre then went second-run Hollywood beginning in April of 1973 and closing Aug. 2, 1973. New operators, Venus Cinemas takes the Holiday mostly with Spanish films and art films. It. closes finding new operators in the Summer of 1973 who fail and the Holiday took a holiday for more than a year.
New operator Lou Weisntock then gives the theatre traction taking it on in November of 1974. After a refresh, he reopened it as a second-run, dollar discount venue and taking part of the plaza’s name as the Town Theatre. He opened on January 31, 1975 with “The Longest Yard.” Weinstock decided to add a midnight X-rated double feature on weekends in April of 1980 which riled up locals who protested. The town of Lake Worth banned the films almost immediately with Weinstock reversing course.
Weinstock is present and virtually every show of nearly 15 years - likely his leasing term. He personally screened and went over each new film with projectionist Frank Kelliher before approving it for proper presentation. The $1 price point remains from 1975 to 1988. In 1989, he raised the price to $1.50 and experimented with $3 art titles. The Town operated to closure November 30, 1989 with “Jean De Florette.” Mayor Ronald Exline thanked Weinstock for his service and sent regrets on the closure.
The Towne Plaza Shopping Center was announced in 1963 and opened theatre-lessly anchored by a small Sears catalog order store. In 1968, that changed when a $250,000 suburban luxury theater was added to the center. The Towne Plaza Theatre opened on Thursday, February 27, 1969 with The Beatles in “Yellow Submarine.“The venue was then twinned by 1975.
The Loehmann’s Plaza held its groundbreaking on December 10, 1981 with General Cinema and Loehmann’s discount store ready to hit the fairway. A&E Design Inc. of Tampa were the architects of the course. General Cinema teed up the 1,380-seat PGA Cinema VI in the Plaza on March 18th, 1983. GCC left the market on September 28, 2000 triple bogeying into Chapter 7 bankruptcy in the near future.
On June 1, 2001, Carmi Djiji’s BMC Cinemas took a mulligan restarting the venue on a new 15-year leasing agreement as the BMC PGA Cinema 6 playing a combination of art films and Hollywood hits. Landing in the sand trap, BMC left the PGA tour on March 21, 2010.
Playing on the Senior Tour circuit, the venue came back against all odds as the PGA Gardens Cinemax 6 playing foreign and independent films beginning April 23, 2010. That lasted until the operator had used the last ball in the bag closing on September 5, 2011. Slated for demolition for a big box store in 2011, city regulations thwarted the deal so the theater had closed for no reason and the struggling Loehmann Plaza continued operations well over par.
And, speaking of no reason, the theater was rebooted once again - 5 years later (!) as duffers tried to operate in an almost impossible business environment teeing off on March 3, 2016 independently with “titles to be announced.” It is believed that only two auditoriums were in operation that day with showing “Aftermath” and “Safety Not Guaranteed.” This iteration outperformed all sports betters predictions lasting all the way to the “over” before closing in November of 2016 when the electric golf cart ran out of electricity. A Facebook message said - perhaps in humor - “closed temporarily.” For film lovers, it was time to head to the 19th hole.
New operators decided to buy a new set of clubs and use two auditoria for live stage plays. That began on February 2, 2017 as the PGA Arts Center. With winter rules in effect, the Center was closed for the season on November 18, 2018. I decided to reopen the venue as a movie house in October of 2024 - because why not? But I arrived only to see the former cinema being demolished; so I headed to the club house to drown my sorrows in six Arnold Palmers in final memory of each auditorium. The PGA Cinema had been forcibly and permanently removed from further tour play dates.
The Paramount closed as an adult film theater on July 10, 1976. It was purchased the next year and converted into Galeria International, a shopping mall. That appears to have ended in 1993.
Ernest Turner opened the 550-seat Drift Theatre #2 on November 20, 1947 at a cost of $80,000 with “Last of the Red Men.” Closing date in entry not correct.
The Rex Auditorium Theatre opened in 1927 in the James Street African American business corridor in Goldsboro known as the Block within Little Washington. Little Washington was annexed in 1869 serving as a home for post-Civil War African Americans. The business corridor followed with the Block home to restaurants, barbers, and other businesses catering to an African American clientele.
The Rex was taken on by a new operator, H.B. Mitchell Theatres of Florida which operated a number of African American cinemas, in its first year. Mitchell renamed it as the Yoland Theatre mixing live stage and film content. H.R. Mason of the Mason Theatre took over the venue as its third operator in the same year making it no longer African American owned but appealing to the same audience. It was wired for sound to remain viable. Robert L. Baum took on the Rex Theatre in 1938 and gave it a streamline moderne makeover becoming the James Theatre for African American patrons in 1938. The theater suffered a fire in April of 1944 requiring a $13,000 repair for its June 26, 1944 relaunch.
The James booked virtually every African American film of the period from Sack Amusements, Astor Pictures and others. It appears to have gone out of business in 1962 or 1963.
The city’s long gestating urban renewal plan looked to be the end of the building. But as Little Washington was being demolished all around it, the theater building actually survived another 30 years being used in the 1970s as an event center mostly for boxing matches, a fraternal hall / pool hall, a storage facility. Damaged by fire in 1987, it was vacated and demolished in the early 1990s.
The Delmar Theatre opened on April 15, 1910. Retiring owner Hector M.E. Pasmezogla sold of the Delmar Theatre and Airdome at the end of a 15-year leasing option to Maurice Stahl of the Union, Mikado and Aubert Theatre. He also sold the Criterion and Congress leases to two other folks on August 3, 1925.
Stahl changed the name of the venue to the Embassy Theater and Airdome in August of 1925. Pasmezogla returned to the venue and conducted a major refresh in 1931 in which the venue lost the airdome becoming the Uptown Theater opening October 24, 1931 with “Street Scene.” Seven months later, the Uptown was sold in forecloure.
The Uptown closed on February 5, 1952 with “Outlaw Women” and “Geisha Girl.” It was used by a youth church as a house or worship and for sporadic live events.
Ralph B. Mann built the new, $52,000 Hub Drive-In Theatre in June of 1950. It was to have opened July 25, 1950 with “Neptune’s Daughter.” Two days later, McLendon Theatres took it on under new ownership but rain cancelled that opening with “Neptune’s Daughter.” The theatre actually opened on August 3, 1950 with “Julia Misbehaves.” On August 30, 1950, the screen tower was flattened by a storm. It reopened the following month.
The Palm Theatre began advertising in 1923, very likely its first year of operation. Ownership change in December of 1929 led to the first sound films being shown there on December 26, 1929.
The Peoples Theatre Circuit of Alabama purchased the theatre in September of 1938. They changed the name to the “new” Foley Theatre on September 22, 1938 with “The Texan. The “new” was dropped not long after. Regular features at the Foley Theatre stop on September 2, 1963 with “Toys in the Attic.” Since that times out with two 20-year leasing agreements, it is likely what transpired. Sporadic events take place in the venue thereafter.
Opened Nov. 5, 1946 with “It’s a Pleasure.” Fire was January 8, 1955 that ended the venue. Last screening was a double feature of “Invasion USA” and “Tales of the Whispering Pines.:”
Address on maps that will show it to users is: 4571 Co Rd 88 (though that’s next door) at the corner of County Road 88 and Church Street. Still standing.
Maybe give it a two line address: 4571 Co Rd 88 County Road 88 and Church Street
Opened as the Hamilton Twin Cinema. Expanded to a quad to a sixplex and to closed. The Fort Payne Cinemas closed March 16, 2020 for the COVID-19 pandemic. The “Yes, We Will Reopen” sign was posted soon thereafter and remains in 2025. I’d go with closed.
It looks like the entry above is simply a “guessy-date” entry with information not in evidence.. I think looking at the day-to-day timeline suggests a much different timeline:
November 5, 1906 - R.G. Baron opens the new-build, Bakersfield Opera House with the live racing play, “Checkers.”
In late 1918, Charles and Cornelius Grogg of the Grogg Theatre Circuit, locally, died during the influenza pandemic. Wife of Charles, Olive Grogg, took over and decided to update both opera houses seeing that movies might be the more profitable path. The Bakersfield Opera House becomes the Bakersfield Theatre on October 19, 1919 (ad in photos). Over at Scribner’s Opera House, it is basically gutted with some elements incorporated into a movie house called the California Theatre with a $10,000 Robert Morton pipe organ for playing films opening on September 14, 1920 (it has its own entry).
Olive Grogg ends Grogg Amusement’s hold in Bakerfield selling the Pastime, Hippodrome and Bakersfield to Gore Brothers and Sol Lesser of Los Angeles in January of 1921 as the transition to West Coast Theatres occurs.
February 5, 1925 the changeover ad from the Bakersfield Theatre to the Nile Theatre takes palce with John Barrymore in “Beau Brummell” in ads (put picture in ads just to suggest a different history than the entry above) with new operators.
I don’t see any evidence of the 1927 remodeling referenced above (each day has programming without a stoppage). However, George Elliot is the operator and runs it as primarily as a live house. Late in 1928, Elliot dies and the the Nile becomes / returns to a full-time motion picture house with a refresh under new management assigned, officially, from Pacific National Theatres.
The theatre is wired for Western Electric sound in 1929. It was then given a major refresh including additional wiring for Vitaphone sound at a reopening on October 16, 1929.
Under the Fox West Coast Theatre Circuit operation, its three theaters are given overhauls in 1938. The Hippodrome was given a name change and refresh and on February 19, 1938, there is a contract for a “new” Nile Theatre at 1721 19th Street which will basically gut the former opera house. The $125,000 job to the plans of architect S. Charles Lee will make the building earthquake proof. The venue’s new projectors are on display at Weill’s Department Store to get people ready for the transition. On February 27, 1938, worker John C. Latham is killed during the demolition of the old theater’s walls.
On July 28, 1938, the New Nile Theatre with its streamline moderne design opens with “I’ll Give a Million” and “Army Girl” supported by the Disney cartoon, “The Fox Hunt.” The theatre has air conditioning and its new projection system includes Simplex audio for improved fidelity.
On February 11, 1954, the Nile Theatre is equipped for CinemaScope beginning with the film, “The Command.”
A major refresh decimates the Nile as it is twinned following a brief closure on February 11, 1976. Original elements dating back to the 1930s are sold off and the shocking new look is revealed on March 26, 1976 as the venue becomes the Nile Theatre I & II launching with “Barry Lyndon” and “…I Will for Now.”
Looks like the twin’s closing date was February 26, 1995 ending things with “Interview with a Vampire” and another feature, possibly, “Street Fighter.” And that is on best evidence - following a 90-year timeline suggesting a 20-year initial lease ownership transferred from Grogg to West Coast in February 1925 all the way to an end of lease closure (likely a 30-year and two 20-year) to February of 1995.
Please understand that to most these nuances and, overall, this information is not particularly significant or worth noting; but, also, guessing dates should be listed as “guessy” instead of stated boldly as fact.
Goes by Cinemark East Montana and XD
Goes by Cinemark West El Paso XD and ScreenX
Actual name is: Cinemark Tinseltown Las Palmas XD and ScreenX
Closed permanently by B&B on February 26, 2025 likely at the expiry of a second 20-year leasing period.
The Summerfield Cinmeas announced its closure to take place on March 9, 2025.
The Town and Country Shopping Plaza was proposed in 1961 and opened theatre-lessly in 1967. That changed when George Leipold opened the 322-seat, suburban luxury cinema, the Holiday Theatre, there on July 8, 1971. Opening film was “Escape from Planet of the Apes” with an in-person appearance by The Space Ape.
In November of 1971, the policy changed to Spanish language films on weekdays and porno chic x-rated films on weekends. In 1973, the Spanish films were replaced with Blaxploitation films. The theatre then went second-run Hollywood beginning in April of 1973 and closing Aug. 2, 1973. New operators, Venus Cinemas takes the Holiday mostly with Spanish films and art films. It. closes finding new operators in the Summer of 1973 who fail and the Holiday took a holiday for more than a year.
New operator Lou Weisntock then gives the theatre traction taking it on in November of 1974. After a refresh, he reopened it as a second-run, dollar discount venue and taking part of the plaza’s name as the Town Theatre. He opened on January 31, 1975 with “The Longest Yard.” Weinstock decided to add a midnight X-rated double feature on weekends in April of 1980 which riled up locals who protested. The town of Lake Worth banned the films almost immediately with Weinstock reversing course.
Weinstock is present and virtually every show of nearly 15 years - likely his leasing term. He personally screened and went over each new film with projectionist Frank Kelliher before approving it for proper presentation. The $1 price point remains from 1975 to 1988. In 1989, he raised the price to $1.50 and experimented with $3 art titles. The Town operated to closure November 30, 1989 with “Jean De Florette.” Mayor Ronald Exline thanked Weinstock for his service and sent regrets on the closure.
Indeed - April 15, 2025 is the last day with the lease terminated.
The Towne Plaza Shopping Center was announced in 1963 and opened theatre-lessly anchored by a small Sears catalog order store. In 1968, that changed when a $250,000 suburban luxury theater was added to the center. The Towne Plaza Theatre opened on Thursday, February 27, 1969 with The Beatles in “Yellow Submarine.“The venue was then twinned by 1975.
For those who are curious, it became an indoor pickleball facility.
The Loehmann’s Plaza held its groundbreaking on December 10, 1981 with General Cinema and Loehmann’s discount store ready to hit the fairway. A&E Design Inc. of Tampa were the architects of the course. General Cinema teed up the 1,380-seat PGA Cinema VI in the Plaza on March 18th, 1983. GCC left the market on September 28, 2000 triple bogeying into Chapter 7 bankruptcy in the near future.
On June 1, 2001, Carmi Djiji’s BMC Cinemas took a mulligan restarting the venue on a new 15-year leasing agreement as the BMC PGA Cinema 6 playing a combination of art films and Hollywood hits. Landing in the sand trap, BMC left the PGA tour on March 21, 2010.
Playing on the Senior Tour circuit, the venue came back against all odds as the PGA Gardens Cinemax 6 playing foreign and independent films beginning April 23, 2010. That lasted until the operator had used the last ball in the bag closing on September 5, 2011. Slated for demolition for a big box store in 2011, city regulations thwarted the deal so the theater had closed for no reason and the struggling Loehmann Plaza continued operations well over par.
And, speaking of no reason, the theater was rebooted once again - 5 years later (!) as duffers tried to operate in an almost impossible business environment teeing off on March 3, 2016 independently with “titles to be announced.” It is believed that only two auditoriums were in operation that day with showing “Aftermath” and “Safety Not Guaranteed.” This iteration outperformed all sports betters predictions lasting all the way to the “over” before closing in November of 2016 when the electric golf cart ran out of electricity. A Facebook message said - perhaps in humor - “closed temporarily.” For film lovers, it was time to head to the 19th hole.
New operators decided to buy a new set of clubs and use two auditoria for live stage plays. That began on February 2, 2017 as the PGA Arts Center. With winter rules in effect, the Center was closed for the season on November 18, 2018. I decided to reopen the venue as a movie house in October of 2024 - because why not? But I arrived only to see the former cinema being demolished; so I headed to the club house to drown my sorrows in six Arnold Palmers in final memory of each auditorium. The PGA Cinema had been forcibly and permanently removed from further tour play dates.
Sadly - closed
The Paramount closed as an adult film theater on July 10, 1976. It was purchased the next year and converted into Galeria International, a shopping mall. That appears to have ended in 1993.
Ernest Turner opened the 550-seat Drift Theatre #2 on November 20, 1947 at a cost of $80,000 with “Last of the Red Men.” Closing date in entry not correct.
Opened Nov 20, 1947 with “Last of the Red Men”
The Rex Auditorium Theatre opened in 1927 in the James Street African American business corridor in Goldsboro known as the Block within Little Washington. Little Washington was annexed in 1869 serving as a home for post-Civil War African Americans. The business corridor followed with the Block home to restaurants, barbers, and other businesses catering to an African American clientele.
The Rex was taken on by a new operator, H.B. Mitchell Theatres of Florida which operated a number of African American cinemas, in its first year. Mitchell renamed it as the Yoland Theatre mixing live stage and film content. H.R. Mason of the Mason Theatre took over the venue as its third operator in the same year making it no longer African American owned but appealing to the same audience. It was wired for sound to remain viable. Robert L. Baum took on the Rex Theatre in 1938 and gave it a streamline moderne makeover becoming the James Theatre for African American patrons in 1938. The theater suffered a fire in April of 1944 requiring a $13,000 repair for its June 26, 1944 relaunch.
The James booked virtually every African American film of the period from Sack Amusements, Astor Pictures and others. It appears to have gone out of business in 1962 or 1963.
The city’s long gestating urban renewal plan looked to be the end of the building. But as Little Washington was being demolished all around it, the theater building actually survived another 30 years being used in the 1970s as an event center mostly for boxing matches, a fraternal hall / pool hall, a storage facility. Damaged by fire in 1987, it was vacated and demolished in the early 1990s.
The first 109 years were golden… the back 5 years not so much as the Scenic exits after 114 years. “Dogman” ended things on March 2, 2025.
The Delmar Theatre opened on April 15, 1910. Retiring owner Hector M.E. Pasmezogla sold of the Delmar Theatre and Airdome at the end of a 15-year leasing option to Maurice Stahl of the Union, Mikado and Aubert Theatre. He also sold the Criterion and Congress leases to two other folks on August 3, 1925.
Stahl changed the name of the venue to the Embassy Theater and Airdome in August of 1925. Pasmezogla returned to the venue and conducted a major refresh in 1931 in which the venue lost the airdome becoming the Uptown Theater opening October 24, 1931 with “Street Scene.” Seven months later, the Uptown was sold in forecloure.
The Uptown closed on February 5, 1952 with “Outlaw Women” and “Geisha Girl.” It was used by a youth church as a house or worship and for sporadic live events.
Ralph B. Mann built the new, $52,000 Hub Drive-In Theatre in June of 1950. It was to have opened July 25, 1950 with “Neptune’s Daughter.” Two days later, McLendon Theatres took it on under new ownership but rain cancelled that opening with “Neptune’s Daughter.” The theatre actually opened on August 3, 1950 with “Julia Misbehaves.” On August 30, 1950, the screen tower was flattened by a storm. It reopened the following month.
The Palm Theatre began advertising in 1923, very likely its first year of operation. Ownership change in December of 1929 led to the first sound films being shown there on December 26, 1929.
The Peoples Theatre Circuit of Alabama purchased the theatre in September of 1938. They changed the name to the “new” Foley Theatre on September 22, 1938 with “The Texan. The “new” was dropped not long after. Regular features at the Foley Theatre stop on September 2, 1963 with “Toys in the Attic.” Since that times out with two 20-year leasing agreements, it is likely what transpired. Sporadic events take place in the venue thereafter.
Opened Nov. 5, 1946 with “It’s a Pleasure.” Fire was January 8, 1955 that ended the venue. Last screening was a double feature of “Invasion USA” and “Tales of the Whispering Pines.:”
Address: 14521 AL-68, Crossville, AL 35962
Closed in 1956 and became a short-lived doctor’s office that year
aka Hamilton’s Drive-In
Address on maps that will show it to users is: 4571 Co Rd 88 (though that’s next door) at the corner of County Road 88 and Church Street. Still standing.
Maybe give it a two line address:
4571 Co Rd 88
County Road 88 and Church Street
Opened as the Hamilton Twin Cinema. Expanded to a quad to a sixplex and to closed. The Fort Payne Cinemas closed March 16, 2020 for the COVID-19 pandemic. The “Yes, We Will Reopen” sign was posted soon thereafter and remains in 2025. I’d go with closed.
It looks like the entry above is simply a “guessy-date” entry with information not in evidence.. I think looking at the day-to-day timeline suggests a much different timeline:
November 5, 1906 - R.G. Baron opens the new-build, Bakersfield Opera House with the live racing play, “Checkers.”
In late 1918, Charles and Cornelius Grogg of the Grogg Theatre Circuit, locally, died during the influenza pandemic. Wife of Charles, Olive Grogg, took over and decided to update both opera houses seeing that movies might be the more profitable path. The Bakersfield Opera House becomes the Bakersfield Theatre on October 19, 1919 (ad in photos). Over at Scribner’s Opera House, it is basically gutted with some elements incorporated into a movie house called the California Theatre with a $10,000 Robert Morton pipe organ for playing films opening on September 14, 1920 (it has its own entry).
Olive Grogg ends Grogg Amusement’s hold in Bakerfield selling the Pastime, Hippodrome and Bakersfield to Gore Brothers and Sol Lesser of Los Angeles in January of 1921 as the transition to West Coast Theatres occurs.
February 5, 1925 the changeover ad from the Bakersfield Theatre to the Nile Theatre takes palce with John Barrymore in “Beau Brummell” in ads (put picture in ads just to suggest a different history than the entry above) with new operators.
I don’t see any evidence of the 1927 remodeling referenced above (each day has programming without a stoppage). However, George Elliot is the operator and runs it as primarily as a live house. Late in 1928, Elliot dies and the the Nile becomes / returns to a full-time motion picture house with a refresh under new management assigned, officially, from Pacific National Theatres.
The theatre is wired for Western Electric sound in 1929. It was then given a major refresh including additional wiring for Vitaphone sound at a reopening on October 16, 1929.
Under the Fox West Coast Theatre Circuit operation, its three theaters are given overhauls in 1938. The Hippodrome was given a name change and refresh and on February 19, 1938, there is a contract for a “new” Nile Theatre at 1721 19th Street which will basically gut the former opera house. The $125,000 job to the plans of architect S. Charles Lee will make the building earthquake proof. The venue’s new projectors are on display at Weill’s Department Store to get people ready for the transition. On February 27, 1938, worker John C. Latham is killed during the demolition of the old theater’s walls.
On July 28, 1938, the New Nile Theatre with its streamline moderne design opens with “I’ll Give a Million” and “Army Girl” supported by the Disney cartoon, “The Fox Hunt.” The theatre has air conditioning and its new projection system includes Simplex audio for improved fidelity.
On February 11, 1954, the Nile Theatre is equipped for CinemaScope beginning with the film, “The Command.”
A major refresh decimates the Nile as it is twinned following a brief closure on February 11, 1976. Original elements dating back to the 1930s are sold off and the shocking new look is revealed on March 26, 1976 as the venue becomes the Nile Theatre I & II launching with “Barry Lyndon” and “…I Will for Now.”
Looks like the twin’s closing date was February 26, 1995 ending things with “Interview with a Vampire” and another feature, possibly, “Street Fighter.” And that is on best evidence - following a 90-year timeline suggesting a 20-year initial lease ownership transferred from Grogg to West Coast in February 1925 all the way to an end of lease closure (likely a 30-year and two 20-year) to February of 1995.
Please understand that to most these nuances and, overall, this information is not particularly significant or worth noting; but, also, guessing dates should be listed as “guessy” instead of stated boldly as fact.