Towne Twin Theater
2300 N. Main Street,
High Point,
NC
27262
2300 N. Main Street,
High Point,
NC
27262
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Should be renamed the TOWNE TWIN THEATRES.
Closed in 1994 by Carmike Cinemas as a second-run cinema.
The Towne Theatre opened in the late-1960’s as High Point’s first-ever suburban theatre with a seating capacity of 748. A lot of blockbuster movies got first-run billing at the Towne Theatre including it’s general engagement showing of THE GODFATHER on March 22,1972.
Other movies played here were CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND…..and more…..
THEATRE HISTORY:
1968-1975 Schneider-Merl Corporation
1975-1982 Martin Theatres [theatre was twinned by 1976]
1982-1994 Carmike Cinemas [closed in 1994]
The Towne Theatre opened on February 5,1968 as High Point’s first-ever suburban cinema with a seating capacity of 748 under Schneider-Merl Theatres.
Martin Theatres took over the operations of this theatre in 1975 and by 1976 it was twinned by splitting the original auditorium into two sections that seated 374 each in both auditoriums renaming it The Towne Twin Theatres.
Carmike Cinemas acquired this theatre in 1982 and it was Carmike that closed it in 1994 as a second-run dollar house cinema.
Opened on February 5,1968 with James Coburn in THE PRESIDENT’S ANALYST under Schneider-Merl Theatres. (1968-1975)
Was twinned in 1976 and renamed the Towne Twin Theatres under Martin Theatres.
Carmike Cinemas took over this theatre in 1982. And it was Carmike that closed it in 1994 as a second-run dollar house.
kencmcintyre: The Towne Theatre ran adult films? I did my extensive research on this theatre,and to my knowledge it must have been running soft-porn films as late show entries long before Martin Theatres took over in the mid-1970’s. I’m from Durham,and I know one theatre in my area,the Yorktowne showed in its entirely the explicit “XXX” rated version of “Caligula”.
A February 1976 article in the High Point Enterprise stated that in the early and mid 1970s the Towne ran heavily edited versions of adult films such as “Deep Throat” and “Devil in Miss Jones”.
According to Bowers' “Encyclopedia of Automatic Musical Instruments” page 551, there was a “American” theatre in High Point equipped with a Reproduco organ made by the Operators Piano Co. I could not find a page for the American, so I am putting this here for the time being.
This was part of the Schneider-Merl chain in the early eighties.