Hoyts Milford 3
124 Medway Road,
Milford,
MA
01757
124 Medway Road,
Milford,
MA
01757
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Few corrections:
The Route 495 Cinema Center actually went with two names, the Route 495 Cinema Center and the Route 495 Cinema Centre. The “Center” name changed to “Centre” in December 1984.
It’s Hoyts, not Hoys.
This started life as the Route 495 Cinema City. The Boston Globe didn’t start advertising the theater until December 1974, so I’m very sure greg6363 is 100% correct that it opened in October of that year. It was renamed the Route 495 Cinema Centre in December 1976.
During its final years of operation, it was known as Hoyts Milford 3 before closing on March 2, 1997.
I started my 15 year carreer in Movie Theatre Operations here. At the time, it was recently purchased by Hoyts. The theatre maintained fairly high admits when it was a discount house, until Hoyts decided to make it first run (primarily a defensive action to ensure they maintained first run agreements with distributors to open Milford 10, which never happened). When Bellingham 14 opened, Hoyts bought out the lease with the provision that the site could not be used for Motion Picture exhibition. The staff was moved to Hoyts Franklin 6, which then became an “overflow” house for Bellingham. Franklin was ultimately closed, as Hoyts began expiriencing financial difficulties due to the heavy capital investments in new construction.
I have fond memories both working there and attending as a customer in the 80’s prior to my employment there.
Actually, the theatre opened in October 1974. The only film I remember during the opening was The Odessa File starring Jon Voight. I do remember seeing the Disney film The Island at the Top of the World starring David Hartman during Christmas of that same year. For the first few years, they had a strange mix of films which weren’t your typical studio films. B-Movies like Old Dracula, Tidal Wave, Mr. Quilp, Adventures of the Wilderness Family, etc. For a time, one of the screens was showing x-rated pornography which didn’t make for a very family friendly environment. It wasn’t until ‘77/'78 when they got their groove by showing mainstream first-run studio movies. I spent a lot of time at this moviehouse as a kid while my mom shopped at K-Mart.