This was the cinema located outside the Towne East Square Mall. Royale Theatres took on these two venues from Wallace Theatres in February of 2000. Royale marketed the two theatres as the Towne East Square Cinema VI, super discount operations with $1 films and concessions. Just six months later, Royale closed the Towne East Square Cinema “Inside the Mall” on August 20, 2000.
No longer having six discount screens, the Circuit changed the name of the remaining “Outside the Mall” theatre to the Towne East Square Cinema 4 which continued for about another year. It closed on June 28, 2001 with “Crocodile Dundee 3,” “Chocolat,” “Driven,” and “Kindom Come.” Royale would stagger on with just three locations before bankruptcy ended the circuit in October of 2001.
This was the cinema located inside the Towne East Square Mall. Royale Theatres took on the venue from Wallace Theatres in February of 2000. They soon found what Wallace and Crown already knew: the day of the twin screener mall cinema was all but over. It had marketed the two theatres as the Towne East Square Cinema VI, a super discount operation with $1 films and concessions. Just six months later, Royale closed the Towne East Square Cinema “Inside the Mall” on August 20, 2000 with “Where the Heart Is” and “Frequency.” The Circuit changed the name of the “Outside the Mall” theatre to the Towne East Square Cinema 4 which continued for about another year.
Dickinson tried to upgrade the Northrock to a 20-screen megaplex but couldn’t get the City of Wichita to agree in the late 1990s. It built the neighboring Northrock 14 in 1998. It then tried unsuccessfully to sell the Northrock 6 to a sporting goods company in 2001. It upgraded four of the six screens to stadium seating in 2001. It continued to look for a new owner which it found in 2003. The theatre closed on June 29, 2003 and was converted into office space.
Mr. and Mrs. T.H. Slothower’s Sandra Theatre launched July 23, 1939 with Barbara Hunt in “Wings of the Navy” supported by three selected shorts. Midwest Theatres took on the operation moving it to “move-over” status taking older product from the Orpheum or Miller theaters. The circuit closed it on February 3, 1954 citing an inability to properly convert to widescreen to show CinemaScope films. It closed with “The Greatest Show on Earth.” The local newspaper moved into the former theatre after some remodeling in 1954.
The New Theatre launched May 28, 1938 as a sub-run, double feature discount house with Melvyn Douglas in “Fast Company” and Lew Ayres in “Spring Madness.” It switched names to the Vicotry Theatre after a naming contest. The Victory ran to the end of a 30-year lease with mainstream product. In 1967, it became the Victory Art Cinema running porno chic and edited XXX titles. The cinema closed with a double-feature of adult titles, “The Danish Connection” starring John Holmes and “Back Stage.” It also had some live shows at the very end as performance / celebratory art on October 30, 1977 as the Victory Theatre to say farewell.
A demolition sale in November of 1977 allowed people to buy the original sunflower designed ceiling and many other artifacts uncovered during the razing of the venue including six giant murals and a box of 1950’s era unused 3D glasses. The theater was removed for urban renewal bringing about Naftzger Park
The 30th location of the Chris McGuire Cinema circuit had 483 seats at opening. When McGuire’s chain went out of business in 1971, the theaters went to various other circuits. Gulf States took on this location as the Village 3 Theatre through 1974 Under new operators, it became the Village Triple. It closed October 31, 1978 with “Pretty Baby,” “Wedding” and “Stingray.”
Shopping Center Theaters Circuit launched the Village Theatre on March 20, 1969 with David Niven in “The Impossible Years.” Later in 1969, Shopping Center Theaters merged with Chris McGuire Cinema Circuit which took on the Village. Chris McGuire Cinemas was dissolved in 1971 with multiple operations taken them over. Gulf State Theaters took on the Village Theater. ABC Florida State followed by Plitt Theatres followed with Plitt closing up April of 1982.
The theatre was twinned relaunching May 14, 1982 as the Atlas Twin with “Parasite” in 3D and “Fury of the Succubus.” Drew Knohl repositioned the Village as a sub-run, double-feature 99 cent discount house. Rajukumar Bombaywala took on a screen showing Bollywood fare on a semi-regular basis. The venue closed in January 27, 1994 with “Geronimo” paired with “Robocop 3” and “"American Cyborg” with “Menace II Society.” Rajukumar created the Hollywood Cinema in Hollywood, Florida to run Indian films.
The SMG Chisholm Trail may come back but because of the SMG bankruptcy, it could well be over. If it is a done deal, it opened August 28, 2020 with “Tenet” and a few other films. It closed abruptly on January 31, 2021 after just a five-month run. At opening, it was considered the SMG’s next generation “2.0” prototype venue Two months after opening, however, the circuit filed for bankruptcy during the COVID-19 pandemic that decimated theatrical exhibition. In January of 2021, SMG closed several locations including its DFW locations in Lewisville, Colleyville and the Dallas-based Northwest Highway / former AMC Grand along with locations including Scottsdale, Glendale, Hampton (Virginia), Alpharetta (Georgia), and Copperfield in Houston.
But the Chisholm location sputtered along though closing just two weeks later with four auditoriums in use with “The Croods 2,” “Wonder Woman ‘84,” “The Marksman,” and “News of the World” offered on January 31, 2021. Unlike the permanently closed locations, SMG declared this a “temporary closure”. Notes were posted on the door by the operators about how to get free admission to other SMG locations - none of which were close by. The C-Trail was then removed from the SMG website on March 30, 2021 with the location’s photos and posts removed from its Facebook site - not exactly a ringing endorsement for its 2.0-leaning future.
Opened as a Chris McGuires Cinema, an automated theater franchise of one of the three famous McGuire Sisters singing group. A publicly held company as an OTC stock, the theatre group started in 1969 and went bust in July of 1971.
The Village Theatre opened for McGuire Cinema Circuit in February of 1969 in the Searstown Shopping Center which had a Sears and a Woolworth’s. The theatre raised eyebrows with midnight X-rated films in the 1970s. The theatre was twinned in 1977 becoming the Village Twin Theatre 1 & 2. The theatre played “ET” for five months only closing in November of 1982 for the theatre to be redesigned as a six-plex, the Village Theatres VI relaunching in December of 1982.
The theatres closed briefly when the entire Searstown Shopping Center became the Sabal Palms Plaza in August of 1985 and theatre became the Sabal Palms Cinema VI. It later became the Sabal Palms Luxury Cinemas 6.
This venue opened August 14, 1924 as the Palace,Theatre and converted to sound to say relevant. Gulf Coast Theatres took on the Palace and the theatre received a shocking makeover in 1965/6 removing all character and any originality from the building basically creating a new theater around its four walls. Theatre seating was more spacious and comfortable to a final count of 650 seats. It reopened after the refresh as the Capri Theatre with “Zorba, The Greek” on February 17, 1966.
Gulf Coast sold the fading venue in 1972 as movie goers were going to suburban parts of town with lots of free parking available. The theatre switched to adult cinema and was hounded by local officials. It temporarily switched formats to family films under a new name briefly before heading back to 16mm adult films and legal issues. Though cleared of all charges, the theater may have discontinued operations after being raided on March 25, 1975 with Patty Alexon in “The Female Vacume Cleaner” and Karen Delmar in “Satisfaction.”
The Jerry Lewis Cortez Plaza Twin Cinema launched on December 23, 1971 with “Peter Rabbit” and “Tales of Beatrix Potter” on Screen 1 and “An Elephant Called Slowly” and “Darling Lili” on Screen 2 next to Woolworth’s big box Woolco store. Suncoast Cinemas Inc. rebranded the venue as the Cortez Plaza Twin I & II on March 17, 1973.
Florida West Amusements took on the venue. It sold it to Cobb Theatres on July 15, 1976. Plitt Theatres took on the venue followed by at least two other operators including Floyd Theatres.
It closed as the Cortez Twin Theatres at the end of lease 20 years later on June 30, 1993 with “Sidekicks” and “Fire in the Sky” on Screen 1 and “Cop and a Half” and “Forever Young” on Screen 2.
Smith Management - General Drive-In later General Cinema - drops the largest new hardtop screen in the south opening at Cinema Theatre in Bayshore Gardens October 19, 1960 at 6016 14th Street. The theatre would be renamed as Bayshore Gardens Cinema and Bayshore Cinema. The theatre closed for two months to become twins relaunching on November 16, 1973 with Cops & Robbers and American Graffiti and renamed as Bayshore Cinema I & II. At end of lease it was then dropped by GCC. At the end of lease. It briefly held on as an independently run discount house that closed on May 14, 1991 with King Ralph and Awakenings. It was then razed.
The Princess Cinema launched on March 19, 1973 with Michael Todd’s “Around the World in 80 Days.” In 1975, it switched to Spanish language cinema. In 1977, it switched to adult cinema.
The Wallace Theatre was George B Wallace’s silent movie house. Bradenton Theatre Circuit, a subsidiary of Sparks took on the venue along with the Rialto in 1928. The management closed the Rialto and continued with the Wallace not converting to sound. The Wallace was reduced to three day a week operation before closing in 1930. It got some use as a live vaudeville house in 1933 and a club house in 1938.
The former Wallace Theatre got new life when the Sparks Theatre Circuit launched the State Theatre on January 3, 1941 as the second-run double-feature theater with Charles Bickford in “South to Karanga” and The Three Mesquiteers in “Heroes of the Saddle” supported by the Flash Gordon serial, “Conquering Universe.” It closed with “Drums in the Deep South” and Robert Mitchum in “The Racket” supported by the Goofy cartoon, “Farther’s Day Off” on December 16, 1953. Fire just five minutes prior to the December 17, 1953 showings of those same films ended the theater’s run.
Cinema opened by Smith Management - and would later become General Drive-In and General Cinema - on October 19, 1960 with “The Dark at the Top of the Stairs”.. The theatre would later be named the Bayshore Cinema.
The Wayne Theatre launched April 18, 1921 with “Scarmbled Wives” and a note from its stars, Marugerite Clark and Norman and Constance Talmadge. It also had a Fotoplayer Orchestral Organ at the launch.
Teicher Theatres closed all of its locations on August 11, 2014 citing Alan Teicher’s age at 80 and his concern about digital conversion away from 35mm coupled with students going back to school ended the theatre and the circuit which only had three other remaining locations in Winchester, Indiana, Bradenton, Florida, and Troy, Ohio.
Teicher Theatres closed all of its locations on August 11, 2014 citing Alan Teicher’s age at 80 and his concern about digital conversion away from 35mm coupled with students going back to school ended the theatre and the circuit which only had three other remaining locations in Winchester, Indiana, Bradenton, Florida, and Greenville, Ohio.
Teicher Theatres closed all of its locations on August 11, 2014 citing Alan Teicher’s age at 80 and his concern about digital conversion away from 35mm coupled with students going back to school ended the theatre and the circuit which only had three remaining location in Winchester, Indiana and Troy and Greenville, Ohio.
Cinema West closed on September 28, 2003. GracePoint Church took on the venue in 2009.
This was the cinema located outside the Towne East Square Mall. Royale Theatres took on these two venues from Wallace Theatres in February of 2000. Royale marketed the two theatres as the Towne East Square Cinema VI, super discount operations with $1 films and concessions. Just six months later, Royale closed the Towne East Square Cinema “Inside the Mall” on August 20, 2000.
No longer having six discount screens, the Circuit changed the name of the remaining “Outside the Mall” theatre to the Towne East Square Cinema 4 which continued for about another year. It closed on June 28, 2001 with “Crocodile Dundee 3,” “Chocolat,” “Driven,” and “Kindom Come.” Royale would stagger on with just three locations before bankruptcy ended the circuit in October of 2001.
This was the cinema located inside the Towne East Square Mall. Royale Theatres took on the venue from Wallace Theatres in February of 2000. They soon found what Wallace and Crown already knew: the day of the twin screener mall cinema was all but over. It had marketed the two theatres as the Towne East Square Cinema VI, a super discount operation with $1 films and concessions. Just six months later, Royale closed the Towne East Square Cinema “Inside the Mall” on August 20, 2000 with “Where the Heart Is” and “Frequency.” The Circuit changed the name of the “Outside the Mall” theatre to the Towne East Square Cinema 4 which continued for about another year.
Dickinson tried to upgrade the Northrock to a 20-screen megaplex but couldn’t get the City of Wichita to agree in the late 1990s. It built the neighboring Northrock 14 in 1998. It then tried unsuccessfully to sell the Northrock 6 to a sporting goods company in 2001. It upgraded four of the six screens to stadium seating in 2001. It continued to look for a new owner which it found in 2003. The theatre closed on June 29, 2003 and was converted into office space.
Mr. and Mrs. T.H. Slothower’s Sandra Theatre launched July 23, 1939 with Barbara Hunt in “Wings of the Navy” supported by three selected shorts. Midwest Theatres took on the operation moving it to “move-over” status taking older product from the Orpheum or Miller theaters. The circuit closed it on February 3, 1954 citing an inability to properly convert to widescreen to show CinemaScope films. It closed with “The Greatest Show on Earth.” The local newspaper moved into the former theatre after some remodeling in 1954.
The New Theatre launched May 28, 1938 as a sub-run, double feature discount house with Melvyn Douglas in “Fast Company” and Lew Ayres in “Spring Madness.” It switched names to the Vicotry Theatre after a naming contest. The Victory ran to the end of a 30-year lease with mainstream product. In 1967, it became the Victory Art Cinema running porno chic and edited XXX titles. The cinema closed with a double-feature of adult titles, “The Danish Connection” starring John Holmes and “Back Stage.” It also had some live shows at the very end as performance / celebratory art on October 30, 1977 as the Victory Theatre to say farewell.
A demolition sale in November of 1977 allowed people to buy the original sunflower designed ceiling and many other artifacts uncovered during the razing of the venue including six giant murals and a box of 1950’s era unused 3D glasses. The theater was removed for urban renewal bringing about Naftzger Park
Appears to have closed as a discount sub-run for Wometco on June 17, 1990 after showing of “Driving Miss Daisy” and “The First Power.”
The 30th location of the Chris McGuire Cinema circuit had 483 seats at opening. When McGuire’s chain went out of business in 1971, the theaters went to various other circuits. Gulf States took on this location as the Village 3 Theatre through 1974 Under new operators, it became the Village Triple. It closed October 31, 1978 with “Pretty Baby,” “Wedding” and “Stingray.”
Shopping Center Theaters Circuit launched the Village Theatre on March 20, 1969 with David Niven in “The Impossible Years.” Later in 1969, Shopping Center Theaters merged with Chris McGuire Cinema Circuit which took on the Village. Chris McGuire Cinemas was dissolved in 1971 with multiple operations taken them over. Gulf State Theaters took on the Village Theater. ABC Florida State followed by Plitt Theatres followed with Plitt closing up April of 1982.
The theatre was twinned relaunching May 14, 1982 as the Atlas Twin with “Parasite” in 3D and “Fury of the Succubus.” Drew Knohl repositioned the Village as a sub-run, double-feature 99 cent discount house. Rajukumar Bombaywala took on a screen showing Bollywood fare on a semi-regular basis. The venue closed in January 27, 1994 with “Geronimo” paired with “Robocop 3” and “"American Cyborg” with “Menace II Society.” Rajukumar created the Hollywood Cinema in Hollywood, Florida to run Indian films.
The SMG Chisholm Trail may come back but because of the SMG bankruptcy, it could well be over. If it is a done deal, it opened August 28, 2020 with “Tenet” and a few other films. It closed abruptly on January 31, 2021 after just a five-month run. At opening, it was considered the SMG’s next generation “2.0” prototype venue Two months after opening, however, the circuit filed for bankruptcy during the COVID-19 pandemic that decimated theatrical exhibition. In January of 2021, SMG closed several locations including its DFW locations in Lewisville, Colleyville and the Dallas-based Northwest Highway / former AMC Grand along with locations including Scottsdale, Glendale, Hampton (Virginia), Alpharetta (Georgia), and Copperfield in Houston.
But the Chisholm location sputtered along though closing just two weeks later with four auditoriums in use with “The Croods 2,” “Wonder Woman ‘84,” “The Marksman,” and “News of the World” offered on January 31, 2021. Unlike the permanently closed locations, SMG declared this a “temporary closure”. Notes were posted on the door by the operators about how to get free admission to other SMG locations - none of which were close by. The C-Trail was then removed from the SMG website on March 30, 2021 with the location’s photos and posts removed from its Facebook site - not exactly a ringing endorsement for its 2.0-leaning future.
Opened as a Chris McGuires Cinema, an automated theater franchise of one of the three famous McGuire Sisters singing group. A publicly held company as an OTC stock, the theatre group started in 1969 and went bust in July of 1971.
The Village Theatre opened for McGuire Cinema Circuit in February of 1969 in the Searstown Shopping Center which had a Sears and a Woolworth’s. The theatre raised eyebrows with midnight X-rated films in the 1970s. The theatre was twinned in 1977 becoming the Village Twin Theatre 1 & 2. The theatre played “ET” for five months only closing in November of 1982 for the theatre to be redesigned as a six-plex, the Village Theatres VI relaunching in December of 1982.
The theatres closed briefly when the entire Searstown Shopping Center became the Sabal Palms Plaza in August of 1985 and theatre became the Sabal Palms Cinema VI. It later became the Sabal Palms Luxury Cinemas 6.
Closed
This venue opened August 14, 1924 as the Palace,Theatre and converted to sound to say relevant. Gulf Coast Theatres took on the Palace and the theatre received a shocking makeover in 1965/6 removing all character and any originality from the building basically creating a new theater around its four walls. Theatre seating was more spacious and comfortable to a final count of 650 seats. It reopened after the refresh as the Capri Theatre with “Zorba, The Greek” on February 17, 1966.
Gulf Coast sold the fading venue in 1972 as movie goers were going to suburban parts of town with lots of free parking available. The theatre switched to adult cinema and was hounded by local officials. It temporarily switched formats to family films under a new name briefly before heading back to 16mm adult films and legal issues. Though cleared of all charges, the theater may have discontinued operations after being raided on March 25, 1975 with Patty Alexon in “The Female Vacume Cleaner” and Karen Delmar in “Satisfaction.”
Opened as the Suburban Open-Air Theatre on September 28, 1950 with “Stars in My Crown"by Manatee Amusement Company.
The Jerry Lewis Cortez Plaza Twin Cinema launched on December 23, 1971 with “Peter Rabbit” and “Tales of Beatrix Potter” on Screen 1 and “An Elephant Called Slowly” and “Darling Lili” on Screen 2 next to Woolworth’s big box Woolco store. Suncoast Cinemas Inc. rebranded the venue as the Cortez Plaza Twin I & II on March 17, 1973. Florida West Amusements took on the venue. It sold it to Cobb Theatres on July 15, 1976. Plitt Theatres took on the venue followed by at least two other operators including Floyd Theatres.
It closed as the Cortez Twin Theatres at the end of lease 20 years later on June 30, 1993 with “Sidekicks” and “Fire in the Sky” on Screen 1 and “Cop and a Half” and “Forever Young” on Screen 2.
Smith Management - General Drive-In later General Cinema - drops the largest new hardtop screen in the south opening at Cinema Theatre in Bayshore Gardens October 19, 1960 at 6016 14th Street. The theatre would be renamed as Bayshore Gardens Cinema and Bayshore Cinema. The theatre closed for two months to become twins relaunching on November 16, 1973 with Cops & Robbers and American Graffiti and renamed as Bayshore Cinema I & II. At end of lease it was then dropped by GCC. At the end of lease. It briefly held on as an independently run discount house that closed on May 14, 1991 with King Ralph and Awakenings. It was then razed.
The Princess Cinema launched on March 19, 1973 with Michael Todd’s “Around the World in 80 Days.” In 1975, it switched to Spanish language cinema. In 1977, it switched to adult cinema.
The Wallace Theatre was George B Wallace’s silent movie house. Bradenton Theatre Circuit, a subsidiary of Sparks took on the venue along with the Rialto in 1928. The management closed the Rialto and continued with the Wallace not converting to sound. The Wallace was reduced to three day a week operation before closing in 1930. It got some use as a live vaudeville house in 1933 and a club house in 1938.
The former Wallace Theatre got new life when the Sparks Theatre Circuit launched the State Theatre on January 3, 1941 as the second-run double-feature theater with Charles Bickford in “South to Karanga” and The Three Mesquiteers in “Heroes of the Saddle” supported by the Flash Gordon serial, “Conquering Universe.” It closed with “Drums in the Deep South” and Robert Mitchum in “The Racket” supported by the Goofy cartoon, “Farther’s Day Off” on December 16, 1953. Fire just five minutes prior to the December 17, 1953 showings of those same films ended the theater’s run.
The Trail Drive-In Theatre launched April 28, 1949 with Eddie Albert in “The Dude Goes West.”
Cinema opened by Smith Management - and would later become General Drive-In and General Cinema - on October 19, 1960 with “The Dark at the Top of the Stairs”.. The theatre would later be named the Bayshore Cinema.
Opened by 1926, appears to have closed in February of 1964, and was demolished in 1968.
The Wayne Theatre launched April 18, 1921 with “Scarmbled Wives” and a note from its stars, Marugerite Clark and Norman and Constance Talmadge. It also had a Fotoplayer Orchestral Organ at the launch.
Teicher Theatres closed all of its locations on August 11, 2014 citing Alan Teicher’s age at 80 and his concern about digital conversion away from 35mm coupled with students going back to school ended the theatre and the circuit which only had three other remaining locations in Winchester, Indiana, Bradenton, Florida, and Troy, Ohio.
Teicher Theatres closed all of its locations on August 11, 2014 citing Alan Teicher’s age at 80 and his concern about digital conversion away from 35mm coupled with students going back to school ended the theatre and the circuit which only had three other remaining locations in Winchester, Indiana, Bradenton, Florida, and Greenville, Ohio.
Teicher Theatres closed all of its locations on August 11, 2014 citing Alan Teicher’s age at 80 and his concern about digital conversion away from 35mm coupled with students going back to school ended the theatre and the circuit which only had three remaining location in Winchester, Indiana and Troy and Greenville, Ohio.