We went to this theater once in the late 1980s (we lived in nearby Carrollton, but my dad had to run errands in Richardson and we decided to see a film here) and even as a small kid I remember what a dump it was. It was my first time in a Plitt theater – we usually went to General Cinema or United Artists properties – and I was thoroughly unimpressed.
I grew up in Carrollton in the 1980s and 1990s and this was one of my two hometown multiplexes. Curiously, General Cinema opened this one just a few years after building the (larger and IMHO nicer) Furneaux Creek 6 across the street, which isn’t yet listed on this site.
The Carrollton 6 always felt smaller and cheaper, and was located weirdly at the rear of a shopping center – kind of difficult to see as you went by. It was a very typical GCC property on the inside, with low-ish ceilings, minimal decor and perennially sticky floors.
I remember having my tenth birthday party here in 1991 and the theater providing free popcorn and drink refills as part of the party package. We saw “Ernest Scared Stupid.”
Cinemark built this one in the late 1980s as a dollar-run theater. It never showed first-run films. General Cinema had two properties within a half-mile (the Furneaux Creek and Carrollton 6 theaters) and this was Cinemark’s attempt to have some kind of presence in Carrollton.
The planned Loop 9 freeway was scheduled to run right past this theater, but construction was repeatedly delayed (it finally opened as the George Bush Turnpike in 2001) and moviegoers began deserting the Carrollton multiplexes for the larger megaplexes in Lewisville and Plano. It became “Neotropolis,” a youth center run by Carrollton’s Covenant Church, in 2000.
I saw many dollar films here as a kid and the layout was pretty straightforward – three auditoriums on each side, two in the rear, and a concession stand in the middle. The lobby was done up in garish late 1980s neon colors (which seemed so fresh and modern back then!)
In 1999, just after graduating from high school, I saw “Analyze This” at this theater. There were only a handful of other customers in the auditorium and it was obvious the property was on its last legs.
The Lincoln Preston Park development was very ambitious by mid-1980s standards… there were two mid-rise office buildings, a very large “flagship” Tom Thumb Page supermarket, and this Loews theater. The intersection (Preston Road and Park Boulevard) is one of the busiest in Collin County today, but in 1985 it was still considered “out in the country.” The other four corners were still farmland and the two roads were still being widened from two lanes to six.
As mentioned above, the two Cinemark megaplexes built in the late 1990s (Tinseltown on the Tollway and Legacy on US 75) crushed all of the smaller theaters in Plano, including this one.
We went to this theater once in the late 1980s (we lived in nearby Carrollton, but my dad had to run errands in Richardson and we decided to see a film here) and even as a small kid I remember what a dump it was. It was my first time in a Plitt theater – we usually went to General Cinema or United Artists properties – and I was thoroughly unimpressed.
I grew up in Carrollton in the 1980s and 1990s and this was one of my two hometown multiplexes. Curiously, General Cinema opened this one just a few years after building the (larger and IMHO nicer) Furneaux Creek 6 across the street, which isn’t yet listed on this site.
The Carrollton 6 always felt smaller and cheaper, and was located weirdly at the rear of a shopping center – kind of difficult to see as you went by. It was a very typical GCC property on the inside, with low-ish ceilings, minimal decor and perennially sticky floors.
I remember having my tenth birthday party here in 1991 and the theater providing free popcorn and drink refills as part of the party package. We saw “Ernest Scared Stupid.”
Cinemark built this one in the late 1980s as a dollar-run theater. It never showed first-run films. General Cinema had two properties within a half-mile (the Furneaux Creek and Carrollton 6 theaters) and this was Cinemark’s attempt to have some kind of presence in Carrollton.
The planned Loop 9 freeway was scheduled to run right past this theater, but construction was repeatedly delayed (it finally opened as the George Bush Turnpike in 2001) and moviegoers began deserting the Carrollton multiplexes for the larger megaplexes in Lewisville and Plano. It became “Neotropolis,” a youth center run by Carrollton’s Covenant Church, in 2000.
I saw many dollar films here as a kid and the layout was pretty straightforward – three auditoriums on each side, two in the rear, and a concession stand in the middle. The lobby was done up in garish late 1980s neon colors (which seemed so fresh and modern back then!)
In 1999, just after graduating from high school, I saw “Analyze This” at this theater. There were only a handful of other customers in the auditorium and it was obvious the property was on its last legs.
The Lincoln Preston Park development was very ambitious by mid-1980s standards… there were two mid-rise office buildings, a very large “flagship” Tom Thumb Page supermarket, and this Loews theater. The intersection (Preston Road and Park Boulevard) is one of the busiest in Collin County today, but in 1985 it was still considered “out in the country.” The other four corners were still farmland and the two roads were still being widened from two lanes to six.
As mentioned above, the two Cinemark megaplexes built in the late 1990s (Tinseltown on the Tollway and Legacy on US 75) crushed all of the smaller theaters in Plano, including this one.