Northpark West 1 & 2
1100 Northpark Center,
Dallas,
TX
75225
1100 Northpark Center,
Dallas,
TX
75225
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This theatre was also known as:
Cinema I&II (its grand opening name)
Northpark I&II
(The Cinema Treasures staff may wish to add those AKAs into the main theater details.)
QUOTE: “[The Northpark] was one of only 20 theaters in the nation to run ‘Star Wars’ on its opening weekend in May of 1977.”
Well, almost correct! The number of original engagements initiated during May 1977 was forty-three. (If anyone is curious which venues were included in that initial launch of “Star Wars,” I encourage you to read my article “May 25, 1977: A Day Long Remembered,” which can be accessed from the link provided below. How many of the 43 original theaters still exist today?)
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The ultra-rich Dallasite, Ray Nasher, tore this theater down to make way for a Nordstroms department store.
In its last few years, among many other movies, it screened “GIANT” and “Gone with the Wind” and brought in some of the original cast members.
Sadly, General Cinema closed it in 1998 and the building was torn down in 2001.
When I read stories like this I wonder what the hell the movie business has become??????????