The Westchester Mall Cinemas opened as the Trans-Lux In-Flight Cinema owned and operated under Brandt Theatres. Brandt at the time of this theatre’s opening had Trans-Lux In Flight Theatres in Charlotte,
Greensboro and Burlington. The Trans-Lux In Flight Cinema opened on April 29, 1970 with the premiere attraction of THE BALLAD OF CABLE HOGUE starring Jason Robards and Stella Stevens. Received it’s new name the Westchester Mall Cinema in 1975 when it was still a single screen operation with a seating capacity of 690. It was twinned by the late 1970’s.
From the previous comment: When you say in-close shopping center do you mean a closed shopping center like a mall?
Yes. And just to let you know that I have found the original ad from the High Point Enterprise newspaper about the opening. The Westchester Mall opened it’s doors to the public on April 22,1970 and it was High Point’s first-ever indoor mall and the Triad’s largest indoor shopping center. The Westchester Mall was anchored by three major department stores at the time of it’s opening which consisted of Belk Beck,
Eriad’s Department Store, Thalhimers,and J.C. Penney along with Mann Drugs, Kress' Department Store and was anchored by two major grocery chains one was A&P,and the other was a Kroger,along with 100 or more speciality shops and services with two major service banks that were located by the front of the shopping center(one of them was Wachovia and the other was Central Carolina Bank).
Carmike Cinemas took over the operations of the Terrace Twin from 1986 under 1994. It cease operations as a second-run discount theatre in January of 1994.
This theater opened on December 29,1972 as the Six Forks Cinema and it was Raleigh’s first-ever mini cinema with a seating capacity of 360 that was owned and operated under Jerry Lewis Theatres. The opening attraction for the December 29,1972 premiere was “Joe Kidd” starring Clint Eastwood. By mid-1973,Jerry Lewis Theatres filed for bankruptcy and the ownership of the cinema changed hands under Schneider-Merl Corporation(which also operated the Valley Theatres 1 & 2 at Crabtree Valley and also the Colony at Five Points). A local manager by the name of Bill Rawls did a huge restoration of this theatre in the mid-1970’s, by converting a former restaurant into a second auditorium. By August 5,1977,a Dobly Stereo System was installed in the second auditorium which seated 500 for it’s grand opening of “MacArthur” starring Gregory Peck for the opening of the Terrace Twin that was operated under Bill Rawls Theatres and later under Martin Theatres.
By November of 1988,the Terrace went from showing first-run films to becoming a second-run discount movie house that lasted for six years until it’s closing in 1994. By 1994,Bill Peebles under his company Ambassador Entertainment restored this theatre and turned it into a art-house cinema and renamed it the Colony Theatres 1 & 2 which remains to be one of Raleigh’s top arthouse cinemas.
I have the original ads for the December 29,1972 opening of the Six Forks Cinema and also the August 5, 1977 original ad for the Terrace Twin Theatres. Any and all information can be sent to me at this address: Thank you.
Correction:I will post this information on this site. I have the original ads for this theatre. FYI: The Pleasant Valley Cinemas opened in October of 1989,a week before the Carmike 7 opened in North Raleigh on November 3,1989.
The Cameo Art-House Theatre is one of two arthouse cinemas that are located EAST of Raleigh,North Carolina that specializes in showing first-run independent films,documentaries,and foreign releases.
The other is the Thalian Hall Center in Wilmington,NC.
This theatre is not listed on the cinema treasures website,but they do have an address for this site:
http://www.thalianhall.com
I do recall going to the Cinema 4 in June of 1982 where the lines stretched around the theatre for “E.T.”, “Star Trek II”, “Poltergeist”,and “Rocky III”. It was also operated under Charlotte based Stewart and Everett,which also operated several other theatres in the Triad including the Reynolda and University Plaza theatres in Winston-Salem,and also the Golden Gate and the Quaker Village theaters in Greensboro,and the Cinema in Graham/Mebane.
Coate:
From the previous comment:
The third screen could not have opened on December 13th since OUT OF AFRICA hadn’t yet been released.
OUT OF AFRICA was generally released on December 18th. The Salisbury Mall Cinemas wouldn’t get the film until mid-January,so larger cities like Charlotte would get first venue,but Salisbury would get the film until later on.
Information: The Salisbury Mall Cinemas originally opened on December 13,1985 as a three screen cinema,replacing the Rowan Plaza Twin(which became a discount movie house). The Salisbury Mall Cinemas opened as a three screen,but it was really a multiplex six screener(the other three screens would open in late January or early-February of 1986).
THE OPENING ATTRACTIONS FOR THE SALISBURY MALL CINEMAS:
Screen 1: Sylvester Stallone in “ROCKY IV”
Screen 2: Michael Douglas “JEWEL OF THE NILE”
Screen 3: Steve Guttenburg in “BAD MEDICINE”
Screens 4,5,and 6(Opened in January,1986)
THE COMING ATTRACTIONS:
Robert Redford and Meryl Streep “OUT OF AFRICA”
ctwrenn:
actually I hate to bust your bubble(and your pride),but I have the original dates and original ads from the Fayetteville Observer to where STAR WARS played first-run. It did NOT, I repeat it did NOT played at the King Theatre!!! NOR did STAR WARS played at neither the King Theatre nor the Cardinal Theatres I & II during it’s re-release.
The first-run booking and the original engagement showing of STAR WARS played at the Cross Creek Mall Cinema I-II-III in Fayetteville on June 17,1977. It played there for 27 weeks!!!
I have the original list to where STAR WARS played first-run in North Carolina. Not to mention it’s list of re-release dates from 1978. I would be glad to sent you this.
The Janus Theatres in Greensboro played STAR WARS for an impressive 64 weeks running until September 1,1977. The other long running city was the Charlottetown Mall Cinemas that played it for 46 weeks. Other cities in North Carolina didn’t get the film until July 1,1977 in selected cities throughout the state.
The Hanes Mall Cinema became a fixture for 25 years until it’s closing on October 10,2000 when Carmike Cinemas built on huge 12-plex just down the street from the Hanes Mall and nearby Interstate 40.
Open in 1976 as Winston-Salem’s first multiplex cinema.
Opened around Christmas of 1985 as a three screen operation,and by early 1986 expanded into six screens making one of Salisbury’s largest multiplex cinemas,and the town’s only multiplex theatre in all of Rowan County. Originally showing first-run features and family films,the Salisbury Mall Cinemas was the place to see a great movie until 2000 when Cinemark Theatres built a huge 14-screen megaplex that gave this theatre some competition. By 2000 it was reduced to a discount movie house.
Kleesburg Theatres owns and operated the Salisbury Mall Cinemas as a discount house by showing second-run films at bargain prices.
Don’t let the signs fronting Chapel Hill Boulevard fool you. The theatres are hidden in the back of the shopping center between Montgomery Ward and J.C. Penney,behind the lower level of the parking deck. This was the worst movie theater in Durham with it’s classroom size auditoriums that lasted in operation from 1975 until 1994. It closed in 1994. The mall itself was demolished in 2001.
The Kings Plaza Shopping Center became a flea market during the mid-1980’s. The flea market is where the former King’s Department Store used to be and also took over the space where the former Winn-Dixie grocer stood and former Kerr Discount Drugs.
Open in 1967 as a 700 seat single screen theater. Was twinned in 1975. The second auditorium was under renovations in 1979 to make way for a third auditorium with second auditorium split down the middle creating two shoebox auditoriums with smaller screens. Screen 1 had 450 seats. By the time the second auditorium was renovated the seating capacities for Screens 2 and 3 were between 299 or 300.
This cinema was also under Plitt Southern Theatres too during the late-1970’s and early to mid-1980’s.
It was operated under Cineplex Odeon before it closed in the mid-1990’s
The Westchester Mall Cinemas opened as the Trans-Lux In-Flight Cinema owned and operated under Brandt Theatres. Brandt at the time of this theatre’s opening had Trans-Lux In Flight Theatres in Charlotte, Greensboro and Burlington. The Trans-Lux In Flight Cinema opened on April 29, 1970 with the premiere attraction of THE BALLAD OF CABLE HOGUE starring Jason Robards and Stella Stevens. Received it’s new name the Westchester Mall Cinema in 1975 when it was still a single screen operation with a seating capacity of 690. It was twinned by the late 1970’s.
From the previous comment: When you say in-close shopping center do you mean a closed shopping center like a mall?
Yes. And just to let you know that I have found the original ad from the High Point Enterprise newspaper about the opening. The Westchester Mall opened it’s doors to the public on April 22,1970 and it was High Point’s first-ever indoor mall and the Triad’s largest indoor shopping center. The Westchester Mall was anchored by three major department stores at the time of it’s opening which consisted of Belk Beck, Eriad’s Department Store, Thalhimers,and J.C. Penney along with Mann Drugs, Kress' Department Store and was anchored by two major grocery chains one was A&P,and the other was a Kroger,along with 100 or more speciality shops and services with two major service banks that were located by the front of the shopping center(one of them was Wachovia and the other was Central Carolina Bank).
Carmike Cinemas took over the operations of the Terrace Twin from 1986 under 1994. It cease operations as a second-run discount theatre in January of 1994.
This theater opened on December 29,1972 as the Six Forks Cinema and it was Raleigh’s first-ever mini cinema with a seating capacity of 360 that was owned and operated under Jerry Lewis Theatres. The opening attraction for the December 29,1972 premiere was “Joe Kidd” starring Clint Eastwood. By mid-1973,Jerry Lewis Theatres filed for bankruptcy and the ownership of the cinema changed hands under Schneider-Merl Corporation(which also operated the Valley Theatres 1 & 2 at Crabtree Valley and also the Colony at Five Points). A local manager by the name of Bill Rawls did a huge restoration of this theatre in the mid-1970’s, by converting a former restaurant into a second auditorium. By August 5,1977,a Dobly Stereo System was installed in the second auditorium which seated 500 for it’s grand opening of “MacArthur” starring Gregory Peck for the opening of the Terrace Twin that was operated under Bill Rawls Theatres and later under Martin Theatres.
By November of 1988,the Terrace went from showing first-run films to becoming a second-run discount movie house that lasted for six years until it’s closing in 1994. By 1994,Bill Peebles under his company Ambassador Entertainment restored this theatre and turned it into a art-house cinema and renamed it the Colony Theatres 1 & 2 which remains to be one of Raleigh’s top arthouse cinemas.
I have the original ads for the December 29,1972 opening of the Six Forks Cinema and also the August 5, 1977 original ad for the Terrace Twin Theatres. Any and all information can be sent to me at this address: Thank you.
Correction:I will post this information on this site. I have the original ads for this theatre. FYI: The Pleasant Valley Cinemas opened in October of 1989,a week before the Carmike 7 opened in North Raleigh on November 3,1989.
This theatre was still going strong by 1989. It didn’t closed until March of 1990. I have the ads for it’s original closing.
Leave it to Carmike to close the only movie house in town.
The Cameo Art-House Theatre is one of two arthouse cinemas that are located EAST of Raleigh,North Carolina that specializes in showing first-run independent films,documentaries,and foreign releases.
The other is the Thalian Hall Center in Wilmington,NC. This theatre is not listed on the cinema treasures website,but they do have an address for this site: http://www.thalianhall.com
HISTORY:
1982-1986 Stewart and Everett Theatres
1986-2002 Carmike Cinemas
2002-???? Independent
It was basically the only movie theatre in town.
I do recall going to the Cinema 4 in June of 1982 where the lines stretched around the theatre for “E.T.”, “Star Trek II”, “Poltergeist”,and “Rocky III”. It was also operated under Charlotte based Stewart and Everett,which also operated several other theatres in the Triad including the Reynolda and University Plaza theatres in Winston-Salem,and also the Golden Gate and the Quaker Village theaters in Greensboro,and the Cinema in Graham/Mebane.
Coate: From the previous comment: The third screen could not have opened on December 13th since OUT OF AFRICA hadn’t yet been released.
OUT OF AFRICA was generally released on December 18th.
The Salisbury Mall Cinemas wouldn’t get the film until mid-January,so larger cities like Charlotte would get first venue,but Salisbury would get the film until later on.
Information: The Salisbury Mall Cinemas originally opened on December 13,1985 as a three screen cinema,replacing the Rowan Plaza Twin(which became a discount movie house). The Salisbury Mall Cinemas opened as a three screen,but it was really a multiplex six screener(the other three screens would open in late January or early-February of 1986).
THE OPENING ATTRACTIONS FOR THE SALISBURY MALL CINEMAS:
Screen 1: Sylvester Stallone in “ROCKY IV”
Screen 2: Michael Douglas “JEWEL OF THE NILE”
Screen 3: Steve Guttenburg in “BAD MEDICINE”
Screens 4,5,and 6(Opened in January,1986)
THE COMING ATTRACTIONS: Robert Redford and Meryl Streep “OUT OF AFRICA”
Steven Spielburg’s “YOUNG SHERLOCK HOLMES”
STAR WARS played here TWICE during many of it’s re-releases. The first re-release was on July 21,1978. The other was in August of 1979.
ctwrenn: actually I hate to bust your bubble(and your pride),but I have the original dates and original ads from the Fayetteville Observer to where STAR WARS played first-run. It did NOT, I repeat it did NOT played at the King Theatre!!! NOR did STAR WARS played at neither the King Theatre nor the Cardinal Theatres I & II during it’s re-release.
The first-run booking and the original engagement showing of STAR WARS played at the Cross Creek Mall Cinema I-II-III in Fayetteville on June 17,1977. It played there for 27 weeks!!!
I have the original list to where STAR WARS played first-run in North Carolina. Not to mention it’s list of re-release dates from 1978. I would be glad to sent you this.
STAR WARS Original Engagements in North Carolina. 06.17.1977-Asheville-Merrimon Twin (22 weeks)
06.17.1977-Fayetteville-Cross Creek Mall 3 (27 Weeks)
06.17.1977-Greensboro-Janus VII-(64 weeks)-DOBLY STEREO
06.17.1977-Winston-Salem-Parkview 1 & 2-(27 weeks)
07.01.1977-Charlotte-Charlottetown Mall 3-(46 weeks)
The Janus Theatres in Greensboro played STAR WARS for an impressive 64 weeks running until September 1,1977. The other long running city was the Charlottetown Mall Cinemas that played it for 46 weeks. Other cities in North Carolina didn’t get the film until July 1,1977 in selected cities throughout the state.
The Hanes Mall Cinema became a fixture for 25 years until it’s closing on October 10,2000 when Carmike Cinemas built on huge 12-plex just down the street from the Hanes Mall and nearby Interstate 40.
Open in 1976 as Winston-Salem’s first multiplex cinema.
Opened around Christmas of 1985 as a three screen operation,and by early 1986 expanded into six screens making one of Salisbury’s largest multiplex cinemas,and the town’s only multiplex theatre in all of Rowan County. Originally showing first-run features and family films,the Salisbury Mall Cinemas was the place to see a great movie until 2000 when Cinemark Theatres built a huge 14-screen megaplex that gave this theatre some competition. By 2000 it was reduced to a discount movie house.
Kleesburg Theatres owns and operated the Salisbury Mall Cinemas as a discount house by showing second-run films at bargain prices.
It was converted to three screens by the mid-1980’s
Don’t let the signs fronting Chapel Hill Boulevard fool you. The theatres are hidden in the back of the shopping center between Montgomery Ward and J.C. Penney,behind the lower level of the parking deck. This was the worst movie theater in Durham with it’s classroom size auditoriums that lasted in operation from 1975 until 1994. It closed in 1994. The mall itself was demolished in 2001.
The Kings Plaza Shopping Center became a flea market during the mid-1980’s. The flea market is where the former King’s Department Store used to be and also took over the space where the former Winn-Dixie grocer stood and former Kerr Discount Drugs.
Open in 1967 as a 700 seat single screen theater. Was twinned in 1975. The second auditorium was under renovations in 1979 to make way for a third auditorium with second auditorium split down the middle creating two shoebox auditoriums with smaller screens. Screen 1 had 450 seats. By the time the second auditorium was renovated the seating capacities for Screens 2 and 3 were between 299 or 300.
This cinema was also under Plitt Southern Theatres too during the late-1970’s and early to mid-1980’s. It was operated under Cineplex Odeon before it closed in the mid-1990’s
More information on Columbia’s Richland Mall Theater..
http://www.scmovietheatres.com/col_rich.html