From our family to your family, we would first like to say thank you to our loyal patrons and to the community of Marysville for 10 years of doing business together. We regret that we have come to the decision that we have, but after discussing the over all business plan with my wife, praying together about it, and talking to our immediate family, we have made the decision that the best thing to do for our family at this time is to close Marysville Cinemas down effective immediately. As you may suspect this was not an easy decision for us to make, but one that had to be made.
Over this last year, as a family, we have invested everything we had to try and maintain the level of service that came to be expected of us by the community at the cinema, but in the end it was not enough. While our loyal patrons have continued to support us over the last few years, and we thank you for that, the general admission patronage has dropped to levels that will not sustain the business any longer.
We have tried our best over the years to play first run movies and to always have at least two of the top five films in the nation at any one time. But the strain on the theater to play first run movies has become to great. Though the demand from the community for first run features remains high, the attendance levels have been at an all time low and continue to drop. Coupled together with today’s current economic situation, we have not been able to procure the funds needed to continue to operate. More over, due to the high operating cost and lack of customer turn out, much needed cosmetic repair to the cinema has been delayed or has been stopped all together. It seems that the support from the community to keep the cinema open over the last few years has been slipping away and while the support from our local patrons has been there, it has not been enough to keep us in business with the cost burden the theater was under.
To give example and add explanation to our decision to close the cinema, we were already running in the red going into the month of November. Our hope was that the spending confidence within our community would increase based on the film title release dates and our November business sales model that we had used in the past would bring the cinema back to with in a manageable margin. We have always used the month of November for our business model for the winter months, which is notoriously our largest grossing month of the year. Roughly 5-10% of our yearly gross income is obtained in the month of November. In November of 2007 the cinema had approximately 2500-3000 patrons in attendance. In 2008 the cinema had approximately 3000-3500 patrons in attendance. This year, in 2009, the cinema had its lowest grossing November in the last ten years with just over 1000 patrons in attendance. This combined with a huge decline in the amount of gift certificate sales and coupon redemptions along with stagnant concession sales made the inevitable decision to close the theater very obvious.
In conclusion, while it was not an easy decision to close the theater, it was a decision that had to be made for our family. My wife and I can’t express enough, the gratitude to all the families that allowed us to be part of their lives over the last ten years. It has been very humbling to us that the community we have been a part of for over 30 years and that we love, took us in and gave us their support. We want to thank everyone for this, we will miss you.. As always, our hope is for the future and for our great community and that some day we might cross paths again.
Al, Joe Vogel, Found the grand opening ad and article in the newspaper from January 25th, 1935 and you can see it at View link
This opened on December 27th, 1949. grand opening ad is on this page at View link
This opened on December 7th, 1941 ad is on this page at View link
This opened on January 15th, 1937. ad is at View link
Grand opening ad From January 15th, 1936 is View link
Grand opening (or reopening) ad with some pictures from October 3rd, 1930 is at View link
The Capitol opened on June 25th, 1926. The grand opening section starts at View link (some pages are torn)
Al, Found the grand opening ad from December 11th, 1916. It is at View link
Became a 7-Plex on December 18th, 1981 ad is at View link
you may have to pan a page or two to bring it in.
I have done a complete upgrade to the Tuscaloosa movie theatres and uploaded it at View link 10 grand opening ads are found.
This was split into two cinemas as Cobb 1 & 2 on May 19th, 1978. Ad is at
View link
Nameing contest: October 28th, 1955 copy of the News.
View link and move one page forward for the ad.
Grand opening ad (one page back)
View link
It opened November 16th, 2009
Google streetview is at View link (for indoor theatre)
Looks like it reopened with seven cinema when I checked the Fairmount,WV showtimes.
Carmike has invested in an DLP system for this small-town theatre.
Google news archive’s microfilm for the opening starts at View link
for the next 5 pages.
Google news archive’s microfilm for the opening (with the drive-in) starts at View link
for the next 5 pages.
found it:
View link
It was packed for a certain teen flick last November. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=scpIfdvVqoE
The building has been demolished long ago. The daycare is in a newer building.
This was never listed in any newspaper nor movie theatre almanacs, including those published in French in Quebec. I think Chad’s infomation is false.
Closed:
from http://www.marysvillecinema.com/
Dear Marysville:
From our family to your family, we would first like to say thank you to our loyal patrons and to the community of Marysville for 10 years of doing business together. We regret that we have come to the decision that we have, but after discussing the over all business plan with my wife, praying together about it, and talking to our immediate family, we have made the decision that the best thing to do for our family at this time is to close Marysville Cinemas down effective immediately. As you may suspect this was not an easy decision for us to make, but one that had to be made.
Over this last year, as a family, we have invested everything we had to try and maintain the level of service that came to be expected of us by the community at the cinema, but in the end it was not enough. While our loyal patrons have continued to support us over the last few years, and we thank you for that, the general admission patronage has dropped to levels that will not sustain the business any longer.
We have tried our best over the years to play first run movies and to always have at least two of the top five films in the nation at any one time. But the strain on the theater to play first run movies has become to great. Though the demand from the community for first run features remains high, the attendance levels have been at an all time low and continue to drop. Coupled together with today’s current economic situation, we have not been able to procure the funds needed to continue to operate. More over, due to the high operating cost and lack of customer turn out, much needed cosmetic repair to the cinema has been delayed or has been stopped all together. It seems that the support from the community to keep the cinema open over the last few years has been slipping away and while the support from our local patrons has been there, it has not been enough to keep us in business with the cost burden the theater was under.
To give example and add explanation to our decision to close the cinema, we were already running in the red going into the month of November. Our hope was that the spending confidence within our community would increase based on the film title release dates and our November business sales model that we had used in the past would bring the cinema back to with in a manageable margin. We have always used the month of November for our business model for the winter months, which is notoriously our largest grossing month of the year. Roughly 5-10% of our yearly gross income is obtained in the month of November. In November of 2007 the cinema had approximately 2500-3000 patrons in attendance. In 2008 the cinema had approximately 3000-3500 patrons in attendance. This year, in 2009, the cinema had its lowest grossing November in the last ten years with just over 1000 patrons in attendance. This combined with a huge decline in the amount of gift certificate sales and coupon redemptions along with stagnant concession sales made the inevitable decision to close the theater very obvious.
In conclusion, while it was not an easy decision to close the theater, it was a decision that had to be made for our family. My wife and I can’t express enough, the gratitude to all the families that allowed us to be part of their lives over the last ten years. It has been very humbling to us that the community we have been a part of for over 30 years and that we love, took us in and gave us their support. We want to thank everyone for this, we will miss you.. As always, our hope is for the future and for our great community and that some day we might cross paths again.
Sincerely,
The Weikle’s
This theatre has no showtimes online. it is open?
No showtimes posted as of December, 2009. Is this still open?
No showtime or website for this cinema as of December 30th, 2009. Is this cinema still active?