Regency Mall Cinema I-II-III

You tell them Mike!!!!!

There is something on something called FLICKR about a manager being shot at the Theatre. I believe this to be false. There is no way a theatre was killed there because I for one would know it. I would have to see proof about that. Yeah, the mall went bad,once folks were bused up from Downtown Augusta to lay around the mall,buy nothing,yeah it went Bad,but no manager was killed there.

June 12 1979 NOW SHOWING AT REGENCY 1.2.3. CINEMAS

1. THE PRISONER OF ZENDA

2. RACQUET

3. A double feature CHAMP and THE FIFTH MUSKETEER

1.50 a seat First Matinee Show daily.

I did see FOUL PLAY there when the cinemas opened.I was working at Plitt Theatres,Don’t recall if i got in free or not.Took my girlfriend Karen A. to it.WE usually had deal worked out where managers got in free. Except WEIS CINEMAS,i think they were jealous because they were such a shoebox opration.

I remember,funny how these thing pop up, that one time after a afternoon show I was walking up the aisle in Cinema 1 and spotted a wallet! Man, I looked at it and inside there must have been a couple of hundreds of dollars. I guess everyone gets an Honesty test. I called the folks they lived over in Aiken, S.C. and they were glad it was going in the safe.
Next day they got it. Being a employee of GCC i am sure in our HUGE policy book rewards are not permitted. They never offered.I often wondered if i would have accepted a reward.Knowing me, probably not.

Big Clint Eastwood fan. I am sorry to say HONKEYTONK MAN played there to mainly EMPTY showings. Clint should have known better. I couldn’t talk people into CINEMA TWO when the other 2 cinemas sold out.

Luckly, South Augusta had not all gone down the tubes when we were playing the WARRIORS. Today, it would be a nightmare to play such fare. American Werewolf having just been released for Midnight Shows did better than I thought it would.Of course,ROCKY HORROR as posted above was run twice at Midnight and again at 2 am.

Selecting Midnight Shows 101. Things had changed since my ABC THEATRE days. The late show moviegoer got DUMMER!I could tell when Zack and myself would set down and select films. All the movies that 70’s filmgoers wanted were out the door. No STRAWBERRY STATEMENT or DUNWICH HORROR. Certainly not THE MARX BROTHERS.Forget about classics such as 1930’s Dracula. It was HEAVY METAL or some rock film that really when compared to TOMMY by the WHO; very lame. I did get 2001 on the list,but when I saw that beautiful film on such a small screen,I couldn’t watch.

One movie i did get was Bruce Lee’s last film GAME OF DEATH,which had played to unimpressive grosses at the MILLER THEATRE in Downtown Augusta.However, I wanted to see how they took 20 minutes of film and made a 100 minute movie with a double and out takes from earlier Lee films. It played in CINEMA 3 and actually did quite well. I figured no one went downtown to see it.After that it was back to THE WARRIORS and such. Really,the films rarely had any film merit to them. And I guess that was the way it was in those days. Also VHS was coming into market along with the RCA SELECTAVISION which carried movies on large discs. So midnight shows were having some other forms of media to compete with in the 80’s.

Cinema Treasures powers to be this Theatre REGENCY 1.2.3. needs to listed in the GCC chains on the site.I never could find it. Regency Exchange was posted but no REGENCY TRIPLE.

One thing about Mr,Zacker that never saw another manager do is that on a movie he would sell very seat in the house. Yes, we had a cut off number and when we reached it the ushers would in and look where the seats were. USually pretty bad. They would come back and Zack would sell 7 more and so on Telling people they probably wouldn’t be sitting together. If you were single it worked out fine.

It made it hard on the staff and i would argue we didn’t do that at ABC THEATRES and he would say with a smile “You are at GCC now.”

Yep, but it was never Zack having to move people around already waiting for the movie to start.

On SIX PACK with Kenny Rogers starring WE SOLD STANDING ROOM ONLY in the back of CINEMA 3. I am not making this up. Thank goodness the Fire Department never found out, I couldn’t believe people paying then $4.00 to STAND. Mr.Z wanted that cut he got on the snack bar Barry ,Russell and I knew that was why.

Guess what? REGENCY MALL CINEMAS will show for the first time since the county told us they would take our business license,ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW. March 28 1986. The other midnight features{ and you can tell i am out of the bussiness} a very unmidnight lame EUROPEAN VACATION. Third screen NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET. I know they did not let ROCKY HORROR get out of hand like we did in the early 80’s.

We always called them “Candy Girls” NO guys worked the stands in those days for us.