AMC Town & Country 10
1060 Sam Houston Parkway N,
Houston,
TX
77043
1060 Sam Houston Parkway N,
Houston,
TX
77043
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Grand opening ad posted.
AMC stepped its game up, opening a 10-Plex in Houston on June 6, 1986. One of the debuting films at this theatre is the Houston Exclusive showing of “Absolute Beginners” starring David Bowie, in 70MM 6-Track Dolby Stereo. It is the only 70MM ever shown at this complex, running for a total of 3 weeks. AMC made sure that this theatre had fairly large screens in all ten auditoriums. The two largest auditoriums featured top-of-the-line Dolby Stereo units for the time, and the remaining eight screens featured Smart Stereo. In 1993, a DTS digital sound system was installed in Auditorium 5 for the debut of Jurassic Park. In 1995, all auditoriums received Sony Dynamic Digital Sound and the speakers were upgraded in every auditorium. I spent a great deal of time working as a projectionist at this theatre in the 90s, and the theatre was packed on weekends, periodically selling out all ten screens. As the theatre steadily lost business to the new Studio 30, AMC finally closed it on April 22, 1999. The theatre remained first-run during its entire almost 13-year run. Today, it is part of Houston Community College as their Performing Arts Center.
Small world. LMAO!
lol I wrote that article you referenced.
Also, this theatre did, in fact, open in 1986. 6 June 1986, to be exact. https://houstonhistoricretail.com/2023/03/03/a-history-of-amc-theaters-in-houston-part-1-60s-80s/
Theatre closed on 22 April 1999, apparently.
Someone needs to submit some pictures of this theater.
I actually have some fond memories of this theater. Notable movies I saw here were The Santa Clause, Casper and Babe. There may be others, but they escape me at this time.
I was a projectionist here in 1995 to 1996. Standard 80s AMC build. Christie heads on ORC lamphouses with ORC platters except screens 5 and 6 (two largest houses) had Century JJ projectors. “Smart” stereo processors all around with SDDS, except 5 and 6, which had Dolby CP200’s and SDDS. House 5 also had dts which was installed for Jurassic Park, but was almost never used once SDDS was installed.