Regency Mall Cinema I-II-III
1700 Gordon Highway,
Augusta,
GA
30904
1700 Gordon Highway,
Augusta,
GA
30904
5 people
favorited this theater
Showing 76 - 100 of 167 comments
Russell, I put the picture of the Road Marquee in the mail TODAY,You might get it Saturday. I wish the Cinemas had used darker letters because in the newsprint picture the Titles are fading,but I wrote them down and guess if you put it on CT you will have to let the readers know the Titles even though I am sure i have listed Somewhere above. I saw on Channel 6 The Marshall’s Department is moving out of the last office in Regency making now an Empty Mall.
Yes, those were the Bikes I got since I still was working at The radio Station selling ads and working at night at the Cinemas.Never thought of that until you mentioned it.Wow,We had KEYS to the MALL.Glad to see posts on Regency,Before we know it it will equal,IMPERIAL, NATIONAL HILLS and Columbia Square Cinemas,Keep writing.
That’d be great, Mike. As soon as our life slows down around here, I’ll get my wife to try and download them somewhere on here. Hey, dawn..one of those pictures in the bunch from the mall showed a lady standing inside the mall. That was along the same route we would walk to from the theater to the bank. I remember for awhile we rode a bicycle that we were going to give away as a prize in some contest! Sure made the trip over and back alot easier..and since we only used it when the mall was closed, it made it alot FASTER too!
Russell, i am sending you the Grand opening picture of the Marquee at the Triple.
Ex-Mayor Bob Young had a great idea.have Hollywood come in film a scene at the old Mall; like having it blown apart in an action movie.Haul the remains to the city dump and let mother nature reclaim it.But I would like to get in that Triple one more time.My son Kyle and some Friends slipped in one day and walked around.I told him never do that again,no telling who is in there,but Barry doggone it outta be able to pull some strings and get the three of us in there.dawn6770,that’s about the time the mall started going down hill it only had few years of decent folks shopping there.Every Town of any size has a “south Augusta” and I grew up on Rocky Creek Road right above the Mall.
To RussellSmeak
this is the synch hole
View link
this was the young girl that was taken from the mall and murdered
View link
16-year-old Aleta Carol Bunch
View link
Alonzo, thanks for the pictures but I have to be honest with you…they sorta hurt my heart! Seeing that old and rundown place and remembering how it used to be. That’s probably how my wife feels when she looks at pictures of me before we got married! LOL! Anyway…back to the pics…seeing that marquee makes me remember the hundreds of times I had to climb up to those suckers (2 of them).
Hard to Believe it was Georgia’s Largest when It opened. I have opening night picture of the Road Marquee and the three movies playing,if you can get them on I will mail them to you Russell. Thanks Mr,Jeter,that theatre certainly Changed my life forever.Russ,glad you didn’t marry a box office girl.
Here some more photos
View link
View link
View link
View link
View link
View link
I also saw ALan Throw a drunk out one night.Glad you like the pictures,since Nick seems to be tied up in Tampa I would glad to send pictures your way,I found one on the EXCHANGE I took it way before it opened,Workers are working on the Concession.there should be pictures of Regency already on the Regency Mall site.I know Nick put one or two on,Heck, I even have one of Dray from the Newspaper Article they Did on Him.Loved his Quote:“MOVIES HAVE TOO MUCH CUSSING IN THEM TODAY.” Yep,Good old Chuck,Bad language sure did Offend him.LOl.LOl.There is a whole Site just on GENERAL CINEMA,the whole history,heck I was reading again the other night.Glad You liked the pictures,wish we would have taken More.Of Course,Barry is suppose to have quite a few pics!!!
Ok cool I found apic online somewhere earlier today.. will try and find it agai and post if not teaching daughter to drive there will take a pic
dawn, you’re remembering Alan Chavous. Alan was a great guy, and a very hard worker. Sadly, Alan was the kind of guy that had a black cloud over his head and always seemed to have a hard life. I remember one time we had Alan and his security guard-girlfriend worked a midnight show on a Saturday when the time changed..went back an hour. Well, Alan must’ve spent an hour trying to convince me that they were due an extra hour of pay that night. He was mad at me for a couple of weeks about that! And it’s not just because he wanted the extra money, he NEEDED the extra money. I have not been over to the mall in decades!! Might go by there just to see that sinkhole!! Mike, I got your pictures today and they are GREAT!! I’ll see if I can get my wife (the resident computer guru) to put them on here…even though I have no idea how to find the others you say are on here!
The mall used to be my stomping grounds as well, attended the rocky horror an quite a few of the midnight shows there i rememder a guy named ,or last name Chavous was a security Guard at the theater.I also rember dinos pizza, del taco the bulldog lounge and so many other places, so sad to see the mall like it is, now people take their children their to learn to drive,, was teaching my daughter this past week and in the parking lot betwee the 2 bridges that lead to Gorden highy rifght near where I belive whits was is a huge sink hole and gettin bigger, just a shame, I was their on opening day when Ronnie Milsap played a cancert
The mall used to be my stomping grounds as well, attended the rocky horror an quite a few of the midnight shows there i rememder a guy named ,or last name Chavous was a security Guard at the theater.I also rember dinos pizza, del taco the bulldog lounge and so many other places, so sad to see the mall like it is, now people take their children their to learn to drive,, was teaching my daughter this past week and in the parking lot betwee the 2 bridges that lead to Gorden highy rifght near where I belive whits was is a huge sink hole and gettin bigger, just a shame, I was their on opening day when Ronnie Milsap played a cancert
russell, if you can put the pictures on CT I am sending that would great.I have in friend in Tampa that has been putting them on but I haven’t heard from Nick in awhile.I Know Tisloews would love to see them,plus everyone else on Ct.Tis, you have great day Too,wish Nick would get back on,Robin got on last night for a brief time at REGENCY EXCHANGE.
All Right Then,have a great day.
Russell i am putting all your REGENCY stuff in the Mail Monday including the “ROCKY HORROR” big write up in the paper.Pictures and all.tis, I could tell you stories about Russell,some you would not believe.Well,you probably would being an old Theatre dawg.
Hope you got them good Russell.
Hey, right there on that one side, overlooking the little plaza area going into the mall entrance, that’s where I took that water fire extinguisher and doused all those Rocky Horror Picture Show people who threw stuff at me while they were in line!
Thats my old Theatre.use to go on the roof for GAS meter readings If I remember Right.Thanks Alonzo.
Here two aerial photos
View link
View link
When I was popping corn i use to get so pissed when they would run upstairs and grabbed what I POPPED.It got so bad the girls drew Straws to see who would go up and get the Popcorn from Mike.this AT National Hills by the time I got to Columbia Square and Regency I NO LONGER had to Pop.think the girls did it alot at Regency,I think when I started in 1974 it was the Guys JOB.Good Story. I hope to get some pictures up soon from our Regency days when Nick gets to them in Tampa.
Okay, I’m going to post this comment here because I KNOW there are like-minded people on here who understand. Today, after a long, hard day at work, I happened across a small plastic bag of Kroger-brand popcorn my wife had bought for my son’s birthday party (no, that was NOT his present!). I was alittle hungry, so I opened it and grabbed a handful. Being an “old theater man”, I love popcorn! But aside from the taste, the wonderful smell immediately took me back to the days when I was an usher and I was assigned once or twice a week to come in for a few hours and pop popcorn in an out-of-the-way room upstairs..just me, a big cup of free coke, a blasting radio, and a super-hot popcorn popper and I dumped out loads and loads of steaming, sizzling popcorn that I’d shovel into large and long plastic bags! I’d put the day’s date on each bag,and then toss it up on the easily-accessible shelves. Turn around, and attend to the next batch of popped corn that was spewing out like a lava-filled volcano, into the salty, oily bin!
Then I’d think about the busy weekend nights when I’d run upstairs to fetch 2 or 3 or those big bags because the concession girl told me that they were about out of popcorn…again, that smell would hit me every time I ran into that room! Can’t you just smell it now??
Man!! I figure for the $1.00 that my wife spent on that little plastic bag of Kroger popcorn, I got a ton of memories that came flooding back to me!
Russell, go to my Home site on Ct MikeRogers,scroll down,and i mean scroll down,it is almost at the end of the thousands of theatres i have posted on,but you can find it “WANTED-C.1970'sGeneral Cinema "coming attractions” or “features”.You will enjoy all the GCC comments and hopefuly be able to get a copy there.I should have dry cleaned my coat more.I never heard Zack speak of Al,and he told so many stories about Barry and you.