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Article describing the plans for the R.C.Cobb theater company to open its first location in the Birmingham area. Despite the anticipated Christmas opening the Capri, as it came to be named, did not open until Spring 1965. This means that the Eastwood Mall Theater, which did barely make its Christmas opening date, earned the honor of being the first new first run theater and first non downtown first run theater to open since the depression.

Despite this late start, the Cobb company soon became the dominant theater company in Birmingham. In 1968 they bought the Newman Waters Company which was Birmingham’s largest with numerous drive ins and neighborhood locations plus Eastwood Mall. In 1980 they purchased five first run locations from Plitt, the Alabama, Ritz, Roebuck Plaza, Hoover and Bessemer Twin. After that it was Midfield, Cinema, Melba, Empire, which with a few other company built locations gave Cobb a lock on the Birmingham market.