Promenade 6
Belt Line and Coit Road,
Richardson,
TX
75080
Belt Line and Coit Road,
Richardson,
TX
75080
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Update: This actually first softly opened on June 16, 1965 with an invitation-only screening of the yet-to-open “Cat Ballou.” It wasn’t until the following day on June 17, 1965 when it was opened to the public, with Walt Disney’s “Cinderella” and “A Country Coyote Goes Hollywood”.
As a single-screener, it originally housed 864 seats. When a second auditorium opened in 1970, its total capacity expanded to 1,364, with the second screen housing 500.
Does anyone have any pictures of this theater as a Cineplex Odeon?
This was also with Cineplex Odeon as well. It went to 6 screens in May of 1984.
We went to this theater once in the late 1980s (we lived in nearby Carrollton, but my dad had to run errands in Richardson and we decided to see a film here) and even as a small kid I remember what a dump it was. It was my first time in a Plitt theater – we usually went to General Cinema or United Artists properties – and I was thoroughly unimpressed.
The Boxoffice article Tinseltoes linked to identifies Jack Corgan as the architect of the Westwood Theatre.