Paree Twin Cinema

1115 Mineral Wells Avenue,
Paris, TN 38242

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bbrown1
bbrown1 on January 19, 2012 at 6:29 pm

The building was demolished last year after sitting empty for quite a few years. I do remember the screens being small and they were high up on the wall, making it difficult to see if you were in the first few rows. I always preferred going to the Sky Vue Drive In with its big screen, but having grown up in Paris, people were very excited when an indoor theater opened up after not having one for almost a decade, and it was very popular for many years. Oddly enough, this is the first indoor theater in Paris I am aware of that has actually been demolished, as the buildings housing the Capitol, Princess, and Gem, all in downtown Paris and much older, are still standing.

gdmarshall
gdmarshall on April 12, 2011 at 4:22 pm

Well, probably better than not having an indoor cinema at all.

Mike Rogers
Mike Rogers on April 12, 2011 at 4:13 pm

Maybe some pictures will show up,but i trust your word,it must have been a real dog.

gdmarshall
gdmarshall on April 11, 2011 at 5:28 pm

I was not impressed, Mike.

Mike Rogers
Mike Rogers on April 11, 2011 at 4:44 pm

I would love to get inside this one.Must have been one different moviegoing trip.

gdmarshall
gdmarshall on April 11, 2011 at 10:31 am

I was told, after this visit, that the theatre ran 35mm only… it’s just that the image didn’t look like 35…. looked like a small 16 image.

TLSLOEWS
TLSLOEWS on April 11, 2011 at 10:05 am

Thats a good story GMNash,maybe the movie was filmed in 35 mm,and was copied to 16mm.

GMNash
GMNash on April 4, 2011 at 8:18 pm

I visited this theatre in 1979, June I believe. I traveled down with a friend from Murray KY, we were trying to see how this theatre’s attendance was, as it had just opened in the prior year. The owner in Murray was worried that this theatre took away from customers traveling to Murray for a movie inside instead of a drive-in. We’re sure it did. The film I sat in on was “Wanda Nevada”. I recall the screen looked like it was ‘painted’ on the front wall… and was the size of a postage stamp, almost like a 16mm image, not 35mm. The film distributors verified they ran 35… but it sure didn’t look like it.