Centre Cinema
185 Center Street,
Wallingford,
CT
06492
185 Center Street,
Wallingford,
CT
06492
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I worked for John Disantis of JOMAR THEATRES at Kensington Cinema in 1981. Disantis operated Kensington Mon. - Sat. and on Sunday operated the Centre Cinema.
The single screen Centre Cinema at 185 Center Street opened July 2, 1969 with a screening of “Finian’s Rainbow.” By 1975, it was being run by Robert Ahearn, though he was cited for several fire code violations and then went bankrupt, with the bank foreclosing on the property on June 4, 1975, forcing the theatre’s closure. The bank decided to lease the theater to the Centre Cinema Corp, operated by Franklin Ferguson of Franklin Ferguson & Theater Associates, which ran eight other theaters at the time. Ferguson and manager Leonard Paul of West Hartford fixed up all the code violations, and the theater was reopened at the end of December, 1975. It remained in operation until the 1990s.