GCC Greenspoint Mall 5
12300 North Freeway #430,
Houston,
TX
77060
12300 North Freeway #430,
Houston,
TX
77060
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Opened inside the mall on August 6, 1976 with “One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest”, “Lifeguard”, “Bugs Bunny,Superstar”, “Blazing Saddles” and “Ode to Billy Joe”. Closed in February 1998 and replaced with the Premier Renaissance 15 outside in the parking lot where J.C. Penny once stood.
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Richard A Stegman Jr
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I used to go to the saturday night movies after work. They very often had foreign movies I’d never heard of. I showed up and saw whatever was on.
I remember visiting this theater a few times when I was kids. I remember seeing movies such as Rookie of the Year and Ferngully here. I remember that there was a report that someone brought a snake and let it loose in the theater back in the early 90’s. That seems to stick out more than seeing movies there.
Does anyone have any pictures, inside or outside, of this theater that they could post on here?
The opening day ad from the Houston Chronicle was added to the photos.
This marquee photo depicted above is interesting because it is either staged for company publicity or it’s not Greenspoint. Researching the Houston Post and Chronicle movie ads from the era of the titles depicted reveals only two of the five featured titles ever played there at the same time.
Only Close Encounters is incorrect. The others did play there. Close Encounters played at the Deauville Twin for a week.
The marquee photo has been removed.
Why remove the marquee photo? Anyway, of the five titles featured on the marquee in the infamous photo — “Close Encounters of the Third Kind,” “Pete’s Dragon,” “The Gauntlet,” “Semi Tough” and “The Goodbye Girl” — only “Pete’s Dragon” and “The Gauntlet” played there simultaneously during the 1977/78 holiday season. No evidence could be found “Close Encounters” and “Semi Tough” ever played there, and “The Goodbye Girl” played there months later by which time “Pete’s Dragon” and “The Gauntlet” were gone.
The theatre actually closed near the end of 1996.
This one closed in February of 1998. I worked in this mall at this Casa Ole and frequented this theater 4-5 times a week. It was in the south section of the mall across from a Piccadilly’s cafeteria for years. I’m sure of the date because the last film I saw there was Dark City the day it came out (2/27/98) and the next morning, some of the theater employees came to my restaurant in uniform and over lunch explained that it was closed without warning.