Destination Theater
5246 Oaklawn Boulevard,
Hopewell,
VA
23860
5246 Oaklawn Boulevard,
Hopewell,
VA
23860
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Previously operated by: Jerry Lewis Cinemas
Functions: Church
Previous Names: Jerry Lewis Cinema, Lee Plaza Twin Cinema, Crossings Cinema
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The twin-screen Jerry Lewis Cinema was opened on November 24, 1972 with “Gone With the Wind” & “Snoopy Come Home”. It was renamed Lee Plaza Twin Cinema on March 5, 1973. It was closed on September 14, 1975.
By the late-1980’s it had reopened as the Crossings Cinema and closed in October 2008. It was taken over by new operators and reopened March 27, 2009 but was soon closed. A church, Destination Church took over in September 2013. It reopened as the Destination Theater in spring of 2014, operated by volunteers. The Destination Theater was an independent cinema with 20 feet x 40 feet screens. It had closed by 2022.
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Announced in 1971 as part of a new-build shopping center originally called the Lee Shopping Plaza, the Jerry Lewis Twin Cinema launched on November 24, 1972 with the films, “Gone with the Wind” and “Snoopy Come Home.” The theater was another in the circuit’s list of automated theatre operated by a franchisee. This one’s owner opened a second location the same day in Richmond’s Meadowbrook Plaza.
This twin theater had 700 seats in its two auditoriums. However, Jerry Lewis Cinema Circuit and its parent company in free fall heading toward bankruptcy. So the cinema was renamed as the Lee Plaza Twin Cinema on March 5, 1973 and relaunched with the film that opened the Jerry Lewis Cinema at Meadowbrook Plaza, “Billy Jack.”
The Lee Plaza Twin struggled into 1975 and tried unsuccessfully to persuade the city to permit it to become an adult theater. The Lee Plaza Cinema Twin went out of business on September 14, 1975 with “Rafferty and the Gold Dust Twins” and “The Great Waldo Pepper.”
The Lee Shopping Center became the Crossings Shopping Center and the the cinema eventually relaunched as the Crossing Cinema in the year 2000 basically looking about the same as it had previously with red and white color scheme and original seating. The Crossroads ran continuously until being closed by operator Neighborhood Cinema Inc. on October of 2008.
Independent operators Ben and Angela Sanders took on the location on March 27, 2009 as the Crossroads. But the theatre soon went out of business again. However, a local church took on the location converting it to the Destination Church in September of 2013. Volunteers decided to begin showing films again in the Spring of 2014 under the name of the Destination Theatre. The theatre converted to digital cinema and continued operations into the 2020s.
Thanks for the history. There is one correction however. It was the Crossings Cinema long before the year 2000. I frequented that theater in the late 1980s and it was already called, The Crossings Cinema.
Grand opening ad posted.
1987 grand opening ad posted. Appears to be inactive as of 2022 as showtimes are not listed on its website or elsewhere.