Its discount days lasted the longest than the other policies and gears the Westchester switched over the years. The Westchester took its last takeoff on December 19, 2005 with “The Legend Of Zorro” in Screen 1 and “Wallace & Gromit: The Curse Of The Were-Rabbit” in Screen 2, closing for the final time that day.
Actually rivest, Kerasotes operated the theater until its 1987 closure on September 13, 1987 with “The Lost Boys” and “Police Academy 4: Citizens On Patrol”.
When it reopened in 1989, it was independently operated. This lasted until September 7, 1995 when it closed for the final time with “Apollo 13” and “Waterworld”.
Closed on June 12, 1961 with “The Sword And The Cross” and “Top Sargent Mulligan”. This was followed by a robbery that happened after closure, where an unidentified individual broke through a window and stole boxes of candy and packs of cigarettes.
On August 28, 1991, the Water Tower Place Cinemas became statewide headlines after its manager shot an employee inside the theater. Its manager, 36-year-old Randy Lee Cross of Gastonia, was very angry and disappointed because the employee discharged a gun inside the theater on another occasion.
The theater wasn’t open at the time, but Cross pointed a .22-caliber semi-automatic pistol at the employee as the employee stood against the cement block wall. He shot the employee twice, one on each side, as well as a glass door of the office. Cross was arrested right afterward. According to authorities, Cross was also previous charged with an assault charge for spanking a 2-year-old child who lived with him.
Actual closing date is September 13, 1986 with a “Festivals Of Festivals” marathon, which is most likely an International Film Festival type of program. Its last normal feature was “Aliens” in 70mm and 6-track Dolby sound ten days prior on September 3, 1986.
Also, I’m sorry for being stupid more than two years ago…
This theater was very notable in March 1995, when Don Harkins, the president of Harkins Theatres, filmed that year’s policy trailer at the Camelview that also used takeoffs on half-a-dozen of films and developing storylines about “fun and love” of going to the auditoriums.
Harkins replied that he “loved the dailies so much that I [Don] had the director edit an even longer four-minute version instead of a regular 45-second one that runs in normal daily hours". The four-minute version only ran during the midnight hours.
Edited from my November 2, 2024 (11:32 AM) comment:
The 425-seat Burley Theatre opened its doors on Christmas Day 1946 with Red Skelton in “The Show-Off” along with the Bugs Bunny Merrie Melodie “Hare Remover” and an unnamed musical short. It briefly last operated as a weekend-only theater before closing in June 1952.
Edited from my November 2, 2024 (11:24 AM) comment:
The 1945 fire happened on December 8, 1945, which according to an article confirms that the theater had been remodeled beforehand. The fire not just damaged the theater, but also destroyed the theater completely to the ground, costing an estimate $100,000 in damages.
The fire that destroyed the Shelby left Shelbyville without a movie theater until Chakeres launched the Burley Theatre the following year on Christmas Day 1946. Prior to that theater’s opening, moviegoers went to see movies in nearby Eminence to see that year’s first-run attractions, including “The Harvey Girls” and “Ziegfeld Follies Of 1946” among others.
It was completely rebuilt two years later and Chakeres reopened the Shelby Theatre on March 4, 1948 with Ronald Reagan in “The Voice Of The Turtle” along with the Looney Tunes cartoon “What’s Brewin', Bruin?” starring The Three Bears (Henry “Papa” Bear, Mama Bear, and Junior Bear) and a newsreel. The 1948-rebuilt Shelby housed 760 maroon upholstered seats with automatic lifts that precludes stumbling over other pulled-down seats in the dark (with 652 seats in the main auditorium and 108 seats in the balcony for colored patrons), and featured RCA sound installations as well as blue velvet curtaining.
Information about the Shelby as of its 1948 remodeling goes as follows: Inside the former that is largely decorated in purple, patrons enter the theater through massive blue metal doors into an auditorium carpeted in wine. The auditorium rock wool base side walls pick up a blue figure in the wine carpeting striking figured satin damask panels which carried full sound treatment. There is a full stage large enough to accommodate traveling theatricals, with dressing rooms beneath the stage. At the rear of the theater is a standee rail which is upholstered in beige fabric, which, with the soft padding, makes the patron easy to lean against. Semi-concealed lighting in back of the standee rail emits from gold neon tubes. In the center are drinking fountains framed in flexi glass, and there are also ladies lounge and powder rooms opening off to the right as the patrons enter and the gentlemen’s smoking lounge at the left rear. In addition to the balcony upstairs, the restrooms for colored patrons, and the manager’s office and uniform storage rooms are also presented.
The Shelby Theatre was lastly known as the “New Shelby Theatre” for a brief time before eventually closing its doors for the final time without any announcement in mid-November 1967.
The Centerville Cinemas actually closed on January 21, 2002, and Washington Township bought the theater that May for $2.25 million. One reason of closure is dwindling business. The dead Centerville building was renovated a couple years later after sitting abandoned, and the former theater itself became a recreation center.
Its not a fun fact of imagination, its both real and true. I just looked information about the theater up on the Dayton Daily News archives. A January 19, 1993 article by Terry Lawson confirms that Screens 3 and 4 closed the previous day because of the leases of both auditoriums expired, and the staff had no reason for National Amusements' decision not to renew their leases. The article also says that Screen 2 “will” (which had) closed the following Monday on January 25, 1993.
Closed on September 1, 1986 with “Texas Chainsaw Massacre II” and “Re-Animator”.
Its discount days lasted the longest than the other policies and gears the Westchester switched over the years. The Westchester took its last takeoff on December 19, 2005 with “The Legend Of Zorro” in Screen 1 and “Wallace & Gromit: The Curse Of The Were-Rabbit” in Screen 2, closing for the final time that day.
Actually rivest, Kerasotes operated the theater until its 1987 closure on September 13, 1987 with “The Lost Boys” and “Police Academy 4: Citizens On Patrol”.
When it reopened in 1989, it was independently operated. This lasted until September 7, 1995 when it closed for the final time with “Apollo 13” and “Waterworld”.
Closed on August 30, 1987 with “Summer School” and “Back To The Beach”.
Actual closing date is September 30, 1984.
Closed on June 12, 1961 with “The Sword And The Cross” and “Top Sargent Mulligan”. This was followed by a robbery that happened after closure, where an unidentified individual broke through a window and stole boxes of candy and packs of cigarettes.
Actual closing date is July 31, 1987 with “The Untouchables” and “Crocodile Dundee”.
Now known as AMC Kalli 12.
On August 28, 1991, the Water Tower Place Cinemas became statewide headlines after its manager shot an employee inside the theater. Its manager, 36-year-old Randy Lee Cross of Gastonia, was very angry and disappointed because the employee discharged a gun inside the theater on another occasion.
The theater wasn’t open at the time, but Cross pointed a .22-caliber semi-automatic pistol at the employee as the employee stood against the cement block wall. He shot the employee twice, one on each side, as well as a glass door of the office. Cross was arrested right afterward. According to authorities, Cross was also previous charged with an assault charge for spanking a 2-year-old child who lived with him.
Later operated as an adult drive-in.
Still open in the early-1980s.
Opened on March 31, 1930 with Marilyn Miller in “Sally” (unknown if extras added).
Opened in February 1916.
Actual closing date is September 13, 1986 with a “Festivals Of Festivals” marathon, which is most likely an International Film Festival type of program. Its last normal feature was “Aliens” in 70mm and 6-track Dolby sound ten days prior on September 3, 1986.
This was also the last Eastern Federal theater in the area.
After the Summit’s closure, Comerford later opened their own Comerford Theatre three years later, which has its own CT page.
Edited from my May 22, 2025 (7:07 PM) comment:
Correction: It never closed on October 9, 1975.
Operated as early as 1949.
This theater was very notable in March 1995, when Don Harkins, the president of Harkins Theatres, filmed that year’s policy trailer at the Camelview that also used takeoffs on half-a-dozen of films and developing storylines about “fun and love” of going to the auditoriums.
Harkins replied that he “loved the dailies so much that I [Don] had the director edit an even longer four-minute version instead of a regular 45-second one that runs in normal daily hours". The four-minute version only ran during the midnight hours.
Also opened with Walt Disney’s featurette “Golden Horseshoe Revue”, which ran before “A Shot In The Dark” and “From Russia With Love”.
Newspaper articles confirmed that the Travis Air Force Base Theatre operated as early as Spring 1967.
Edited from my November 2, 2024 (11:32 AM) comment:
The 425-seat Burley Theatre opened its doors on Christmas Day 1946 with Red Skelton in “The Show-Off” along with the Bugs Bunny Merrie Melodie “Hare Remover” and an unnamed musical short. It briefly last operated as a weekend-only theater before closing in June 1952.
Edited from my November 2, 2024 (11:24 AM) comment:
The 1945 fire happened on December 8, 1945, which according to an article confirms that the theater had been remodeled beforehand. The fire not just damaged the theater, but also destroyed the theater completely to the ground, costing an estimate $100,000 in damages.
The fire that destroyed the Shelby left Shelbyville without a movie theater until Chakeres launched the Burley Theatre the following year on Christmas Day 1946. Prior to that theater’s opening, moviegoers went to see movies in nearby Eminence to see that year’s first-run attractions, including “The Harvey Girls” and “Ziegfeld Follies Of 1946” among others.
It was completely rebuilt two years later and Chakeres reopened the Shelby Theatre on March 4, 1948 with Ronald Reagan in “The Voice Of The Turtle” along with the Looney Tunes cartoon “What’s Brewin', Bruin?” starring The Three Bears (Henry “Papa” Bear, Mama Bear, and Junior Bear) and a newsreel. The 1948-rebuilt Shelby housed 760 maroon upholstered seats with automatic lifts that precludes stumbling over other pulled-down seats in the dark (with 652 seats in the main auditorium and 108 seats in the balcony for colored patrons), and featured RCA sound installations as well as blue velvet curtaining.
Information about the Shelby as of its 1948 remodeling goes as follows: Inside the former that is largely decorated in purple, patrons enter the theater through massive blue metal doors into an auditorium carpeted in wine. The auditorium rock wool base side walls pick up a blue figure in the wine carpeting striking figured satin damask panels which carried full sound treatment. There is a full stage large enough to accommodate traveling theatricals, with dressing rooms beneath the stage. At the rear of the theater is a standee rail which is upholstered in beige fabric, which, with the soft padding, makes the patron easy to lean against. Semi-concealed lighting in back of the standee rail emits from gold neon tubes. In the center are drinking fountains framed in flexi glass, and there are also ladies lounge and powder rooms opening off to the right as the patrons enter and the gentlemen’s smoking lounge at the left rear. In addition to the balcony upstairs, the restrooms for colored patrons, and the manager’s office and uniform storage rooms are also presented.
The Shelby Theatre was lastly known as the “New Shelby Theatre” for a brief time before eventually closing its doors for the final time without any announcement in mid-November 1967.
The Centerville Cinemas actually closed on January 21, 2002, and Washington Township bought the theater that May for $2.25 million. One reason of closure is dwindling business. The dead Centerville building was renovated a couple years later after sitting abandoned, and the former theater itself became a recreation center.
Its not a fun fact of imagination, its both real and true. I just looked information about the theater up on the Dayton Daily News archives. A January 19, 1993 article by Terry Lawson confirms that Screens 3 and 4 closed the previous day because of the leases of both auditoriums expired, and the staff had no reason for National Amusements' decision not to renew their leases. The article also says that Screen 2 “will” (which had) closed the following Monday on January 25, 1993.