Cinema X Theatre
1000 W. Jolly Road,
Lansing,
MI
48910
1000 W. Jolly Road,
Lansing,
MI
48910
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Address is 1000 West Jolly Road.
This opened on February 23rd, 1973 with “Deep Throat. Twinned in 1979 and closed in 1988.
One last thing I remember:
During the brief closure mentioned above, the theater placed an ad in the Lansing State Journal that went like this:
“You’ve watched this ad for something blue,
Now watch this ad for something new.
We know not yet what we can show,
When we find out we’ll let you know.
Sorry, closed until further notice"
I remember listening to WVIC in Lansing (the local Top 40 station) back then (in 1974 I was only 12), and they carried some commercials for Cinema X. As I’m typing this up, I can still hear that woman’s voice singing the jingle over the soft guitar music:
“At Cinema X….You’re on a rainbow ride.”
One private high school in Lansing (which I will leave nameless and which I had the pleasure of attending from September 1974 until ending 10th grade in June 1978, at which time my father had the brilliant idea – sarcastically speaking – to move us all to Chicago, and I finished at another private high school I didn’t like) was outraged by the fact WVIC was airing the Cinema X commercials that around early 1976 said private school decided not to use the station anymore for school closing announcements (e.g. during bad weather).
One of the administrators said, “I think we are having a hard enough time encouraging our children not to attend Cinema X, etc. We also don’t want incoming students to think this is what older students do during their senior year.” I do agree with all he said. (Admittedly, I did wonder if the seniors did anything like that, but that wasn’t necessarily true. I certainly didn’t!)
Still, it was funny to see this place listed because it made me think of those goofy commercials I heard on the radio when I was a kid.