Paducah Cinemas I & II

3168 Park Avenue,
Paducah, KY 42001

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rivest266
rivest266 on November 20, 2020 at 5:48 am

Owned by Robert L. Lippert of California https://web.archive.org/web/20120303115251/http://robertllippertfoundation.com/theaters.html

rivest266
rivest266 on June 21, 2018 at 12:13 am

This opened on March 27th, 1971 by Transcontinental Theatres and taken over by AMC in 1978. Grand opening ad in the photo section.

Paduach cinemas openingPaduach cinemas opening Fri, Mar 26, 1971 – 18 · The Paducah Sun (Paducah, Kentucky) · Newspapers.com

John Simmers
John Simmers on May 26, 2012 at 12:22 pm

Attended this theater many times in the year we lived in Paducah, 1974-75. The upstairs theater was very small as I remember it, perhaps only a couple hundred seats. The main auditorium was very large with a big screen. However, I don’t think they had 70mm capability or stereophonic sound, which I found unusual for a modern theater that large. We saw a reissue of “2001: A Space Odyssey” there, and while impressive on their big screen, it was definitely not 70mm and the sound was in mono. The manager was a guy named Ron Ruggles, a real showman. I was a DJ on a local radio station (WKYX) and we often did promotions with the cinema.