Ocean Cinemas 1-2-3

Highway 17 N.,
North Myrtle Beach, SC 29582

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rivest266
rivest266 on April 7, 2022 at 5:04 pm

This opened with two screens on June 3rd, 1977, and the third screen by subdivision on June 9th, 1978. Grand opening ads posted.

PamelaT
PamelaT on April 17, 2015 at 2:31 am

I worked at this theatre from 1996-2000. I was even promoted to assistant manager. So many happy memories! Always fun to change the big marquee every week. We had our “regulars” that were always supportive. I cried when I locked the doors on the night it closed for good. January 20, 2000

Coate
Coate on March 27, 2010 at 3:05 am

<<< 130 South U.S. Highway 17, Myrtle Beach >>>

The address is not correct. (Notice the “map” link doesn’t take you to the correct location? Clue number one that the address is wrong!)

First, this theater was located in North Myrtle Beach, not Myrtle Beach.

Second, I’m not certain of the exact address (but I know the one given isn’t right). CinemaTour gives the address as “130 Highway 17 South” while a newspaper ad I have circa 1977 gives a generic address of “Highway 17 at Ocean Drive.”

Coate
Coate on March 27, 2010 at 2:58 am

<<< *The Ocean Cinemas opened as a three-screen cinema in the early-1980’s * >>>

Wrong!

1) This theater opened several years before the early 1980s.

2) It was a twin before it was a triplex.

I’m not sure of the theater’s full timeline or screen-count history, but I have evidence that “Star Wars” played here in ‘77 and that at the time it was a twin (promoted in local papers as “Ocean Cinema 1 & 2”).