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 on October 27, 1996.
It was 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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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.
So this means that this closed on February 27, 1998.
The General Cinemas Greenspoint Mall 5 closed October 27, 1996 at they expiry of its 20-year leasing agreement with “D3,” “Extreme Measures,” “The Rich Man’s Wife,” “First Kid,” and “Bulletproof.” Ads for the next week read, “Closed: Thank you for your patronage.” The theater was sealed off and remained in a time capsule until the Greenspoint Mall’s closure (June of 2024( demolition (schedule for 2025).
Oh. Now I see.