Spectrum Cinema
2660 Augusta Drive,
Houston,
TX
77057
2660 Augusta Drive,
Houston,
TX
77057
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Additional Info
Previously operated by: Cineplex Odeon, Loews
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News About This Theater
- Jul 15, 2008 — Remembering "Die Hard" -- A 20th Anniversary Tribute
- Jul 15, 2008 — Remembering "Die Hard"
Opened on June 24, 1988. Although the Spectrum was not architecturally significant, it had a very clean and functional design that distinguished it from any other cinema in Houston. The Spectrum Cinema, along with the River Oaks Plaza, Memorial City Mall and West Oaks Mall cinemas shuttered in February 2001 as a results of Loews filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
Contributed by
Jack Coursey
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Recent comments (view all 18 comments)
Hello I am the former Cineplex Odeon executive who opened the Specturm, Presidio Sq, River Oaks, and Sharpstown. I had been Director of theatre operations for New York and New Jersey prior to moving back to Houston to oversee the expanding prescence of Cineplex Odeon.
In the late seventy’s I was the south Texas district supervisior for Plitt Theatres, at that time we had West Oaks Mall, Plitt Cinema5, Woodlake, Alabama, Clearlake, as well as theatres in Lake Jackson and Baytown in the houston area. We also had theatres San Antonio, Austin, the Rio Grande Valley.
I started with the Theatres when they were part of ABC later changed to Interstate then purchased by Henry Plitt (Plitt Theatres) and finally for me Cineplex odeon.
I find it hard to believe the theatres are all gone for the most part, seems like yesterday but I left the industry 23 years ago.
Nice!
We still need more pictures of this theater!
Sadly, it seems I never went to this theater. Oh well.
An interesting read about the Spectrum: https://milton.substack.com/p/three-cathedrals
Grand opening ad posted.
Yes!
I’d also like to see some pics of this theatre from October, November and December 1998 please.
Please update, toal seats 3280 as per Houston Chronicle artice on the Cineplex River Oaks grand opening
Please update, toal seats 3280 as per Houston Chronicle artice on the Cineplex River Oaks grand opening and rename Cineplex Odeon Spectrum Cinemas