Metro Village 6
10405 N. 31st Avenue,
Phoenix,
AZ
85029
10405 N. 31st Avenue,
Phoenix,
AZ
85029
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Demolished In 2013.
Closed On April 29, 1999 Along With The Fiesta Village 6 (Mesa), Lakes 6 (Tempe), And The Sun Valley Plaza 10 (Mesa).
I worked at the AMC Town and Country 6 and helped train the Metro Village staff. The theatre opened in December 1980 with The Jazz Singer, Stir Crazy, The Aristocats, and First Family from what I remember. Mr Berger was the general manager and was known as being a jerk. The outer auditoriums were nice with Dolby Stereo. Saw many films there including Reds, For Your Eyes Only, Flashdance, Terms of Endearment, Scarface Amadeus, Ghost, JFK. Metro Village and Town and Country also had Midnight movies Friday and Saturday sponsored by radio station KDKB. Crazy nights working those shows.
December 12th, 1980 grand opening ad in photo section.
Hi Matt, Metro Village opened in 1980 as new construction. The GCC theater was inside the mall (roughly where the Harkins is today) and had three screens. AMC was Metro Village (6 screens); GCC was Metro Center (3 screens); and Bill Blair had Metro Park which started as 2 screens and grew to 4 and then 8 screens. You’re right about how Fiesta Village was Metro Village’s twin. T&C 6 was where the original staff of Metro Village 6 did our training before the grand opening in 1980 when our big movies were Jazz Singer and Stir Crazy. Ahh, memories.
Metro Village 6 opened in late 1970’s along with it’s identical twin sister Fiesta Village 6 by General Cinemas. Petsmart now stands where it was. General Cinemas sold all there valley theaters to AMC Theaters in the late 1980’s and early 1990’s. AMC took ownership in 1987 and closed it with 6 others theaters in between 1998 and 2000 due to the popularity of the Megaplex theaters. AMC closed Laguna Village 6, Gateway Village 10, Three Fountains 4, Fiesta Village 6, Sunvalley Plaza 10, and Bell Plaza 8. Town & Country 6 was the only theater that survived the AMC multiplex massacre by killing any theatre that had less then 10 screens during the turn of the millennium. T&C 6 survived two more years as the last AMC muliplex by becoming AMC’s independent art’s and value theatre but was closed in 2001. I was one of the lucky AMC employees who helped close it down. T&C 6 was AMC first built valley theatre and also the the valley’s first muliplex theatre.
Yes, and before it was China Gate that restaurant was Uncle John’s that was either open 24-hours or open very very late because I remember that we, the original crew of ushers and concessionists, would head over there after the midnight movies were over and order make-your-own sundaes!
If I recall correctly this was near a huge consignment shop and a China Gate restaurant.
Thanks allan0318.
…that would be the pet hospital inside the PetSmart…the Bed Bath and Beyond is adjacent…
A Pet Hospital is listed at this address now and a Bed and Bath Beyond as listed in the header.
Closed 1998?
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