This place actually opened sometime in the 80s or 90s. It was a Loews called Easton Commons and had an almost identical design as the Loews in Spring with the same old school posters.
Actually, there are a few of the older theaters in Houston still open. Loews Easton Commons is now Studio Movie Grill Copperfield. Loews Spring is now an updated AMC. I believe the 2nd run theater by NASA is still there, too. I know the old Tomball theater has been renovated. The oldest one, River Oaks, is still alive and well(as it should be). In my opinion, AMC should have never closed the Willowbrook mall theater when they aquired GCC. They should have kept it going as a 2nd run theater. That way, it would have been rebranded as AMC Classic by now and would look the same as it did 30 years ago. Oh well.
Sadly, it seems there are no photos of this GCC anywhere on the internet. Which is a shame since this place was my childhood theater. My parents always took me here in the early 90 s and I can only operate from childhood memory as to what this place looked like. All I remember are entrances from the outside and in the food court as well as a staircase leading to the restrooms and the GCC logo. You can see their coming attractions and feature presentation bumpers on YouTube from that era and I remember seeing those too. I recently visited Houston and stopped by this mall and you can no longer even tell a movie theater was once here. H&M and several other store fronts have taken the space at some point and the mall seems to have been renovated. Surely somebody who worked for GCC or was managing this theater back then has pictures, but they probably aren’t aware of this site. I would hate to think this place has been banished to the corners of our memories.
Picture Show has permanently closed this location. Mall is set to be demolished soon.
This place actually opened sometime in the 80s or 90s. It was a Loews called Easton Commons and had an almost identical design as the Loews in Spring with the same old school posters.
Actually, there are a few of the older theaters in Houston still open. Loews Easton Commons is now Studio Movie Grill Copperfield. Loews Spring is now an updated AMC. I believe the 2nd run theater by NASA is still there, too. I know the old Tomball theater has been renovated. The oldest one, River Oaks, is still alive and well(as it should be). In my opinion, AMC should have never closed the Willowbrook mall theater when they aquired GCC. They should have kept it going as a 2nd run theater. That way, it would have been rebranded as AMC Classic by now and would look the same as it did 30 years ago. Oh well.
Sadly, it seems there are no photos of this GCC anywhere on the internet. Which is a shame since this place was my childhood theater. My parents always took me here in the early 90 s and I can only operate from childhood memory as to what this place looked like. All I remember are entrances from the outside and in the food court as well as a staircase leading to the restrooms and the GCC logo. You can see their coming attractions and feature presentation bumpers on YouTube from that era and I remember seeing those too. I recently visited Houston and stopped by this mall and you can no longer even tell a movie theater was once here. H&M and several other store fronts have taken the space at some point and the mall seems to have been renovated. Surely somebody who worked for GCC or was managing this theater back then has pictures, but they probably aren’t aware of this site. I would hate to think this place has been banished to the corners of our memories.