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MovieDude81 commented about UA East Whiteland Stadium 9 on Dec 5, 2013 at 4:24 pm

Officially closed as of April 2013. I am so sad they closed this theater—this place was my stomping ground from 2000-2003 when I was a student at West Chester University. We used to load up as many people as we could into a car and drive down 202 to Frazer and use our Student IDs to get $7.50 tickets, super cheap in the days of movie ticket prices starting to hit double digits. The best part was this theater was so new and relatively remote that it was almost never crowded and never had lines.

This was the also the first theater in the area that had the high backed rocking theater seats and flip-up arm rests.

I remember beta testing the Regal Rewards program when they first launched it, I had something like 1,000 regal credits before my card broke in half. Such a shame, this was a nicest building in that whole stretch of Rt 30 which is pretty dilapidated at this point with the exception of a super Wawa and a few other businesses.

The last movie I saw here was Django Unchained around Jan/Feb 2013. I will miss this place!

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MovieDude81 commented about AMC Dine-In Painters Crossing 9 on Dec 5, 2013 at 3:54 pm

It was a VERY big deal when they built this theater. The only theater in the area that had this many screens in one place. Does anyone know exactly when this theater opened? Someone else said 1991 but I am almost positive I saw Edward Scissorhands here which was December 1990. I was a regular at this theater when Jurassic Park (1993) was out, I saw it at least twice in a row. My attendance dropped off around 1995 when they built a Regal 12 just a few miles from my house.

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MovieDude81 commented about 202 Drive-In on Dec 5, 2013 at 3:37 pm

I never actually saw this theater functioning but throughout the 90’s before it was a nursery I remember the vacant lot with the screen still standing all overgrown with weeds.

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MovieDude81 commented about Marchwood Theater on Dec 5, 2013 at 3:23 pm

I lived in the Marchwood apartments in the mid 2000s and had no idea that there used to be a skin flick theater right across the street. Hilarious. I would imagine that the families with young children or teenagers in the Marchwood neighborhood subdivision were not happy about a xxx theater within kid-bike-riding distance.

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MovieDude81 commented about Exton Twin on Dec 5, 2013 at 3:15 pm

I remember this theater well, reminds me of the days before the big cineplex theaters moved into Chester County. As a ‘Kid of the 90s’ the last movies I remember seeing here before it closed were Disney’s Aladdin (1992) and The Mighty Ducks (1992). I believe my mother actually took me to see Lethal Weapon 3 (1992) in this theater too.