Apple Cinemas
168 Alewife Brook Parkway,
Cambridge,
MA
02138
168 Alewife Brook Parkway,
Cambridge,
MA
02138
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Operated by: Apple Cinemas
Previously operated by: Entertainment Cinemas, General Cinema Corp., Loews, Loews Cineplex, Sony Theatres
Functions: Movies (First Run)
Previous Names: Fresh Pond Cinema, General CinemaCambridge Route 2
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- Aug 25, 2013 — Apple Cinemas offers Bollywood favorites
The 1,200-seat Fresh Pond Cinema was a twin screen cinema opened by General Cinema Corp. on November 23, 1965. It was located at the end of a suburban strip mall and surrounded by a parking lot. It closed some time in the early-1980’s.
It was taken over by Entertainment Cinemas who remodeled and expanded the theatre, reopening as a ten-plex on March 3, 1990. In December 1990 they sold it to Loews who ran it through to January 26, 2006 and it closed. They did not include it in the AMC-Loews merger. It reopened as an Entertainment Cinema once again on February 3, 2006.
In 2013 it was renamed Apple Cinemas.
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Ron Newman
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does bill hanney still own it? returning the waterfall?
PHOTOS WHEN I WAS MANAGER OF CINEMA FRESH POND CAMBRIDGE A 1200 SEAT THEATER OF GENERAL CINEMA DENNIS MAHANEY
Where are these photos you are referring to?
Ron go to the top of this page click on photo then you should see photos when I was manager when GENERAL CINEMA ran and built the theater
AS A GENERAL CINEMA THEATER WHEN IT OPENED WE HAD 1200 SEATS
Dennis, Was Fresh Pond a replica of Garden City originally? I was the Projection Supervisor of Fresh Pond during the union lockout in 2003. We had an artist rendering of what was supposedly Fresh Pond. It looks identical to the rendering in your Garden City advertisement. We were told that the windows on the front of the building were smashed in the first weeks of opening and that GC bricked them up as it is today. Is this true? It looks very much like Garden City and seems to have the same dimensions.
Reopened by Entertainment Cinemas on March 30th, 1990. Grand opening ad in photo section.
Please rename Cambridge-Route 2 and closed. A separate Apple Cinemas Cambridge page created for the new theatre since it’s a completely new building
Closed in mid-1984.
The Apple Cinemas Cambridge is not a completely new building, it is the same theatre, just split up and updated/renovated.