Colonies North Theatre

3527 Wurzbach Road,
San Antonio, TX 78238

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rivest266
rivest266 on January 17, 2020 at 1:44 pm

This opened as “Cinematex Colonies Theatre” on February 1st, 1970 with vaudeville and the movie, “The Music Man”. On June 2nd, 1972 it reopened by Santikos theatres as the Colonies North theatre with a Disney double bill. It was sold to Movie One in 1977, who closed it by the end of the year. Grand opening ads posted.

kencmcintyre
kencmcintyre on March 1, 2009 at 10:33 am

Here is a May 1972 item from the San Antonio Express:

Santikos Theaters Inc. has acquired the former Cinematex Theater in Colonies North and will reopen it Thursday under the new name of Colonies North Theater. The new addition to the theater chain will show first-run and top-quality movies, said Ken Higgins, one of the executives of Santikos.

The theater will open with Walt Disney’s “Pinocchio” and “The Barefoot Executive.” Following that double bill the theater will show “Hans Christian Anderson” beginning June 16, followed by “The Garden of Fitzi Continis,” which won an Oscar this year for the best foreign film.

John Crawford, former assistant manager of Santikos' San Pedro Outdoor Theater, will be the manager of the new 500-seat theater. Other theaters in the Santikos chain are Century South, Olmes, and the San Pedro, Fredericksburg Road, Trail and Town-Twin outdoor theaters.