Parkway Theatre

1183 Silas Creek Parkway,
Winston-Salem, NC 27127

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Previously operated by: Carmike Cinemas, Martin Theatres, Schneider-Merl

Firms: Charles Morrison Grier & Associates

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The Parkway Theatre was Winston-Salem’s first ever suburban cinema. Located in the Parkway Plaza Shopping Center at the intersection of Peters Creek Parkway and Silas Creek Parkway. It was also North Carolina’s first ever ‘Lounging Chair Theatre’ with a seating capacity of 700, with giant widescreen projection and full stereophonic sound. The opening attraction for the Parkway Theatre was the Rock Hudson, Leslie Caron feature “A Very Special Favor” on September 1, 1965.

Throughout the years, the Parkway Theatre was the place to see a great movie in Winston-Salem and it remained that way throughout the 1970’s and 1980’s. A lot of great blockbusters played at this theatre when it was still a single screen movie house until September 4, 1980 when it was closed by Martin Theatres for twinning. By the mid-1980’s, it had become a discount movie house.

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raysson on April 10, 2012 at 12:21 pm

COMING ATTRACTIONS FOR THE PARKWAY THEATRE was from the August 31,1965-September 1, 1965 edition of the Winston-Salem Journal,Winston-Salem,North Carolina.

raysson on April 30, 2012 at 5:27 pm

CORRECTION ON THE ADDRESS:
The address for the Parkway Theatre needs to be:
1183 Silas Creek Parkway,Winston-Salem,NC 27127.

NOT: 1130 which needs to be corrected.

raysson on May 23, 2014 at 10:05 am

As an alternative to the Downtown movie-houses that Winston Salem offered,the PARKWAY THEATRE got a lot of first-run features. “Rosemary’s Baby” played here 1st run,and so did the original “Planet of the Apes” movie,and “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid”. Also played here was the 1973 re-release of “The Sound of Music”. By 1982,Carmike Cinemas acquired this theatre from Martin Theatres and during that time its 750-seat single screener was split down the middle into two sections and it was renamed the Parkway Twin Theatres. By 1987,it was reduced under Carmike to showing second run films at discount prices where it remained until the Parkway’s closing in 1994.

raysson on May 23, 2014 at 10:07 am

THEATRE HISTORY:

1965-1976 Schneider-Merl Theatres

1976-1982 Martin Theatres

1982-1994 Carmike Cinemas

Mmandarano on July 14, 2014 at 4:08 pm

What’s in the spot of this theatre now in the shopping center? Anna’s Linens?

diamondjc on July 23, 2014 at 1:23 pm

Ok, I will admit that I MAY not be old enough to remember a theater at Parkway Plaza or not, but I definitely know there wasn’t one there by the mid-80’s! The description of THIS theater however, does describe in detail, the history of the theater at PARKVIEW Shopping Center, especially the part about it being split into two theaters and the discount 2nd run format. Parkway Plaza has definitely not had a theater since 1985, at least.

NightHawk1 on August 7, 2014 at 1:10 am

This theater was gone by 1990. Carmike’s operating theaters in Winston-Salem in September 1990 were as follows: Marketplace 6, Thruway Twin, Reynolda Triple, University Twin (discount), and Parkview Twin (discount). The Parkway did not appear in the newspaper listings at that time; it was probably closed long before Carmike took over the Cineplex Odeon houses (Marketplace and Thruway).

Joe Vogel on January 17, 2023 at 7:02 am

Boxoffice of March 8, 1965 said that the new theater in Winston-Salem’s Parkway Shopping Center, promoted by the Schneider-Merl interests, was being designed by the Charlotte, NC architectural firm Charles Morrison Grier & Associates.