Flagship Cinemas Quincy

1585 Hancock Street,
Quincy, MA 02169

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Previous Names: Quincy Cinema

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Flagship Cinemas, outside of Boston has been around since 1995. They own and operate 112 screens in 12 theatres throughout Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Maryland and Florida.

The Quincy Cinema was opened June 3, 1988 and closed under Flagship Cinemas in December 2006 and was demolished in September-October 2010.

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Ron Newman
Ron Newman on September 23, 2010 at 8:54 pm

Here’s a link to the Patriot Ledger article. I am surprised to learn that the building is that old!

rsalters (Ron Salters)
rsalters (Ron Salters) on September 24, 2010 at 11:38 am

They did heavy-duty renovation work there, so that’s why the front, and the south side look “new”.

Ron Newman
Ron Newman on September 24, 2010 at 12:34 pm

In older comments that I can’t find anymore (maybe on a different Quincy theatre), I recall people talking about a Sears building. Is this the same one?

rsalters (Ron Salters)
rsalters (Ron Salters) on September 25, 2010 at 11:51 am

Yes, there was a Sears (or “Sears, Roebuck” in those days) just to the south of the Capitol Theatre and extending all the way back to the parking lots to the rear (west). The empty lot of the demolished Capitol was taken over and included in the footprint and the entire structure was heavily rebuilt and modified for the Quincy Fair Mall. I didn’t really pay much attention to what was being done there at the time.

rsalters (Ron Salters)
rsalters (Ron Salters) on October 7, 2010 at 10:29 am

The City of Quincy’s development planning company has a cinema in their plans. It’s located to the rear of the Flagship site, one block to the south of Granite Street and next to the Burgin Parkway. The building will have 4 or 5 levels of parking, with the cinema located above. It’s in a rather obscure corner of the area. Of course, the cinema is just a suggested activity and would require some entity to commit to it.

BobSchlapowitz
BobSchlapowitz on October 20, 2010 at 6:51 pm

And the building is now totally gone.

rsalters (Ron Salters)
rsalters (Ron Salters) on December 16, 2010 at 10:32 am

I went by the site yesterday and there was a crew grading the empty lot.

rsalters (Ron Salters)
rsalters (Ron Salters) on July 26, 2011 at 10:45 am

In the Street View photo above, if you pan left, you can see the cinema attraction board on the upper wall above and behind the Fedex truck.

rivest266
rivest266 on July 25, 2018 at 3:42 pm

This opened on June 3rd, 1988. Grand opening ad in the photo section.

Ravenswing
Ravenswing on December 8, 2021 at 7:19 pm

Good bloody riddance, too. I was living in Quincy when the cinema shut down, the staff was unutterably rude, and the facilities decidedly mediocre.

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