Wilshire Village Cinema
308 N.E. Wilshire Boulevard,
Burleson,
TX
76028
308 N.E. Wilshire Boulevard,
Burleson,
TX
76028
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The Wilshire Village Twin Cinema was a nondescript fully automated theatre that anchored a small strip shopping center on Wilshire Boulevard in Burleson. It was opened by United General Theatres on September 23, 1972 with Gary Grimes in “Culpepper Cattle Co.” & Roddy McDowall in “Conquest of the Planet of the Apes”. In the home video era in the 1980’s, the cinema added VHS rentals becoming the Wilshire Village Cinema and Videos. Competition from an 8-screen Rand Theatre in Burleson launching July 14, 1989 appears to have ended things for the Wilshire Village. The theatre closed by year’s end. New operators took out the wall separating the venue for live events. That was a failure. It ended as the World of Life Church Center prior to be torn down in the 2010’s in favor of the Burleson Stor-More storage facility.
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A cinema and video library, that unusual!!
The Wilshire Village Cinema was launched as a United General Corp. Circuit theatre on September 23, 1972 with “Culepepper Cattle Company” and “Conquest of the Planet of the Apes.” The chain was similar to the Jerry Lewis Cinema concept with small locations featuring automation and United General had loser price16mm projection as an option to operators.
Did the video library close at the same time as the cinema?