Harkins Camelview 5
7001 E. Highland Avenue,
Scottsdale,
AZ
85251
7001 E. Highland Avenue,
Scottsdale,
AZ
85251
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Previously operated by: Harkins Theatres
Previous Names: Camelview Twin
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Opened as a twin theatre June 17, 1973. OnJuly 13, 1990 it was expanded to five-screens. This small theatre is operated by Harkins Theatres. It has shown foreign and independent movies for many years (at least since the 1970’s). It was closed December 10, 2015
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Auditorium two seats about 400, auds 1 and 3 looks to be about 250, auditorium 5, the “screening room” seats about 40. Aud 2 is a fairly nice place, large screen – auds 1 and 3 look like a larger screen twinned down the middle (off-center screen). The complex opened in 1973.
Visited this multiplex for the first time I’m December 2012 to catch a showing of HITCHCOCK.
Posted two photos of the entrance.
Harkins Camelview 5 opened in 1973 as a twin cinema on an outparcel of the Camel View Plaza mall. The mall has since merged into Scottsdale Fashion Square. For decades it’s been one of the very few independent venues for limited-release films in the whole state of Arizona.
As of September 2013 Camelview is threatened with demolition as part of Fashion Square expansion. Harkins leases the property and isn’t responsible for the decision. It’ll be replaced with — parking and landscaping.
You can sign a petition to save this nice little neighborhood art house here: http://www.change.org/petitions/macerich-don-t-demolish-the-camelview-theater
Initially opened on June 17, 1973.
June 17th, 1973 grand opening ad as Cinema 7 – Camelview plaza in photo section.
Amenities for this theatre:
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Rivest1266, this is a 5 screen not a 7 screen according to their website.
Closing in 2016 for a new 14-plex in the mall. http://www.harkinstheatres.com/theatreOpenings.aspx
Chris 1982, The original name means that this was the 7th cinema in the Harkins chain, not the screen count. The cinema was renamed as Camelview in 1974.
The cinema was expanded on July 13th, 1990 to its five screens. Grand opening ad in photo section.
See and search my clippings at http://azcentral.newspapers.com/profile/rivest266/
One your What is Rivest Doing, it would be much easier to follow if the years were in numerical order.
This theater was very notable in March 1995, when Don Harkins, the president of Harkins Theatres, filmed that year’s policy trailer at the Camelview that also used takeoffs on half-a-dozen of films and developing storylines about “fun and love” of going to the auditoriums.
Harkins replied that he “loved the dailies so much that I [Don] had the director edit an even longer four-minute version instead of a regular 45-second one that runs in normal daily hours". The four-minute version only ran during the midnight hours.