Loew's Town & Country III
750 W. Sam Houston Parkway N,
Houston,
TX
77024
750 W. Sam Houston Parkway N,
Houston,
TX
77024
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Previously operated by: Loew's Theatres
Previous Names: Loew's Twins, Loew's Town & Country II
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Located in Spring Branch West, to the west of downtown. Loew’s Twins opened on June 28, 1972 with Alan Arkin in “Last of the Red Hot Lovers” & Roddy McDowall in “Conquest of the Planet of the Apes”. It screened first-run movies. A 3rd screen was added in May 1975. By the late-1970’s, it had converted to a second-run dollar cinema and closed on August 30, 1990 with Charlie Sheen in “Men at Work”, Jeff Daniels in “Arachnophobia” & Marlon Brando in “The Freshman”.
It was demolished in 2002.
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Like with Town & Country 6, I was surprised this theatre didn’t have an entry here, and actually you could walk to those theatres in only a minute or so. Makes me wonder who owned T&C 6, in case it was just nasty competition to open it up right next door to T&C III. They really should have tried expanding, as they had more than enough room around the building to double, even triple their amount of screens, but since they never did they never stood a chance, which was too bad, because probably 95-99% of the time when a movie theatre takes the dollar route they become scummy. With T&C III, they still had most of the original decor (as far as I could tell, when I started going there in the 70s) and neat wall lamps and all.
Anyway, updating this entry would be good, as I’m just guessing on the current street address; before it became the Sam Houston Parkway, it was called West Belt, I think. I don’t know if the old street addresses coincide with the Parkway block numbers nowadays or if they’re totally different.
The Town And Country III was a Loew’s theatre and the Town And Country 6 was an AMC theatre.
Thanks,jamestv. I couldn’t remember.
I grew up in Houston in the 70s/80s and went to these two theatres a lot when I was a kid. Even though they were so close together, they appealed to different tastes. The Loews T&C 3 showed more highbrow fare for adults, where I feel like the T&C 6 showed more mainstream popcorn-type movies (with exceptions, of course). Both theatres were very strict about R-rated movies, and if you bought a ticket for a PG movie, then sneaked into an R movie, the ushers would walk through and check stubs before the movie started or during the previews and kick you out. I got kicked out trying to see PURPLE RAIN many times at T&C6, finally saw it at the Galleria II.
Darryl, I have a couple of pictures of newspaper ads from the 80s for both theatres and the address for both is listed as “West Belt @ I-10.” I did find the T&C6 listed as “666 Town & Country Village” elsewhere in the newspaper.
Great memories all around.
Had a 70mm auditorium. I remember seeing “Close Encounters of the Third Kind” there.
The Loews Twin opened its doors on June 28, 1972 with “Last Of The Red Hot Lovers” in Screen 1 and “Conquest Of The Planet Of The Apes” in Screen 2, with an open house three days prior. A third screen was added on May 1975, which became the Loews Town & Country 3.
Loews closed the Town & Country 3 on August 30, 1990 with “Men At Work”, “Arachnophobia”, and “Freshman” in screen order, and was demolished in 2002.
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