Twelve Oaks Theatre
4162 Buford Highway NE,
Atlanta,
GA
30345
4162 Buford Highway NE,
Atlanta,
GA
30345
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Previously operated by: Loews, Storey Theatres Inc.
Previous Names: Loews Twelve Oaks Theatre
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Great theatre, both in general and size when Loews opened it on February 10, 1971 with Dyan Cannon in “Doctors' Wives”. The theatre had two entrances, one via the mall interior the other through the parking lot. The theatre had 1,200-seats a large flat screen, 35mm and 70mm projection and a fairly good sound system for its time. When “Deliverance” came out in 1972, it probably played longer at the Loews Twelve Oaks Theatre than any other theatre in town.
On May 23, 1975 the theatre was split down the centre and two much smaller screens were installed complimented with mono sound. The theatre continued to do OK despite it’s loss of lustre (Robert Altman’s “Nashville” did a pretty good run there in 1975.) It became a four screen theatre on May 26, 1989.
When Loews left town, Storey Theatres took over the Twelve Oaks Theatre and George Lefont secured the Tara Theatre. The Twelve Oaks Theatre was clinging for life at that point and Storey did all they could to keep it alive including using part of the lobby for video rental and dividing up the two shoebox auditoriums into four. The theatre breathed its last in 1999.
I don’t know if it is still standing or if it has been converted to retail space.
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Twelve Oaks 4 is still standing. It was home to Atlanta Live and is now home to DREAMZ ATL night club since 2007. I believe the auditoriums are still in tact just used for different levels of the club like VIP, various other forms of entertainment operating simultaneously.
Now Showing 12 Oaks 2 Cinemas: “A NEW LIFE” rated PG-13
“JOHNNY BE GOOD” rated PG-13
MARCH 28 1988.
You must have worked for several theatre chains ROBIN!
The shopping center is now called Plaza Fiesta and is primarily a Latin/Spanish shopping center, with a few Asian run stores as well. Most the the Buford Highway corridor has a more ethnic bent now than when I grew up there. The glass wall that separated the theater from the mall has a huge climbing/kids playhouse thing there, blocking the entrance.
Makes me sick how all the theaters I loved in Atlanta are GONE or changed drastically to the point they barely resemble the place they use to be. Doraville Mini Cinema GONE. Loew’s Tara GONE (the single screen) Briarcliff Village Theater GONE. Loew’s Grand GONE. Roxy Theater GONE. Toco Hills theater GONE. N.E. Expressway Drive-In and North 85 Drive-In theaters GONE. Original North Dekalb theatre GONE. I could go on and on, but you get the point.
This opened on February 10th, 1971. Grand Opening ads in the photo section. This is the second theatre built by Loew’s in Atlanta named after the estates in “Gone With the Wind”.
2 screens on May 23rd, 1975 and four on May 26th, 1989. Grand opening ads posted.
and closed in 1999.
When I Looked On Maps, I Think That Location Is Demolished. I Can’t Find It Anywhere.
Probably the biggest nail in the coffin was the opening of Regal’s new theater at the sight of the North 85 drive in.