“Official” name or not. No one called it Charlottetown Mall Cinema. It was always just Charlottetown and that is what the sign over the theater said. The mall was across a busy street and wasn’t connected to the theatre.
When the theatre was split in the early eighties I was working at the theatre. All of the seats were replaced (I still have a friend that owns a pair) and angled towards the screen. It still was somewhat awkward as one wall was straight and the second wall was angled, because of the way they split the room.
Shortly after putting in the new seats they painted the theater and spots of paint collected on the new seats. The painters didn’t bother to cover the seats as they painted. As an employee, I spent hours cleaning the new seats to remove the paint.
Charlottetown also had the distinction of owning the popcorn popper that supplied bags of popcorn to Eastland and Southpark (the other General Cinema Theatres in Charlotte). The popper room was located behind the concession stand. Unlike today where the popper is within most concession stands, this was a huge machine that cranked out massive amounts of popcorn which we then bagged into 50 gallon bags for delivery.
I blogged about my work experience at Charlottetown:
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“Official” name or not. No one called it Charlottetown Mall Cinema. It was always just Charlottetown and that is what the sign over the theater said. The mall was across a busy street and wasn’t connected to the theatre.
When the theatre was split in the early eighties I was working at the theatre. All of the seats were replaced (I still have a friend that owns a pair) and angled towards the screen. It still was somewhat awkward as one wall was straight and the second wall was angled, because of the way they split the room.
Shortly after putting in the new seats they painted the theater and spots of paint collected on the new seats. The painters didn’t bother to cover the seats as they painted. As an employee, I spent hours cleaning the new seats to remove the paint.
Charlottetown also had the distinction of owning the popcorn popper that supplied bags of popcorn to Eastland and Southpark (the other General Cinema Theatres in Charlotte). The popper room was located behind the concession stand. Unlike today where the popper is within most concession stands, this was a huge machine that cranked out massive amounts of popcorn which we then bagged into 50 gallon bags for delivery.