Yes, I forgot the name of the eye glass place. Its been years since I was down that way. My friend’s mom worked there when I was a kid. I know that mall was dead for a long time,but it was a fun place to go for kids/teens for movies and the arcade inside the mall . Was the only place for local kids to go after the skating rink closed down late 80’s on Missouri, now its a salvation army store.
I just want to add something about the closing of it, the owner did sell it to someone but it wasn’t a condo developer, it was to the Church of Scientology. They built the Condos for their people, and years later they opened it to rent to anyone. Now its a section 8 hot bed. The place is run down and all the units have been tore up . Most pizza places won’t go there at night for fear of being robbed. I know because I was a manger for the local Pizza hut LOL . Sad, they closed the theater down when they did, It started to pick up being a dollar theater . Friday and Saturdays was always jammed packed . But the new owners for some reason felt they needed a pond there :/ they left the eye glasses place alone and built a strip mall in front of theater and where the wall was .
I worked there from about 1992 until a few months before it closed . I started as an usher and left as the projection manager"most of the time we only had two projectionist “
A woman named Brenda was the Theater manager when I left, when I first started, I think the manager name was Rick. was a great place to work and I started going there When the first star wars came out ” i’m sure it was a two plex at the time. I spent a lot of summer days there :) I remember being in middle school when they closed down to make it a 5 plex . If anyone has photos of it during the 80’s and 90’s,I would love to see them. sadly I don’t have any pictures of it :( lost all my family photos when my sister put them in storage and failed to pay :/ So post if you do, i’m following this topic
Yes, I forgot the name of the eye glass place. Its been years since I was down that way. My friend’s mom worked there when I was a kid. I know that mall was dead for a long time,but it was a fun place to go for kids/teens for movies and the arcade inside the mall . Was the only place for local kids to go after the skating rink closed down late 80’s on Missouri, now its a salvation army store.
I just want to add something about the closing of it, the owner did sell it to someone but it wasn’t a condo developer, it was to the Church of Scientology. They built the Condos for their people, and years later they opened it to rent to anyone. Now its a section 8 hot bed. The place is run down and all the units have been tore up . Most pizza places won’t go there at night for fear of being robbed. I know because I was a manger for the local Pizza hut LOL . Sad, they closed the theater down when they did, It started to pick up being a dollar theater . Friday and Saturdays was always jammed packed . But the new owners for some reason felt they needed a pond there :/ they left the eye glasses place alone and built a strip mall in front of theater and where the wall was .
I worked there from about 1992 until a few months before it closed . I started as an usher and left as the projection manager"most of the time we only had two projectionist “ A woman named Brenda was the Theater manager when I left, when I first started, I think the manager name was Rick. was a great place to work and I started going there When the first star wars came out ” i’m sure it was a two plex at the time. I spent a lot of summer days there :) I remember being in middle school when they closed down to make it a 5 plex . If anyone has photos of it during the 80’s and 90’s,I would love to see them. sadly I don’t have any pictures of it :( lost all my family photos when my sister put them in storage and failed to pay :/ So post if you do, i’m following this topic