North Reading Cinemas
52 Main Street,
North Reading,
MA
01864
52 Main Street,
North Reading,
MA
01864
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Functions: Office Space
Previous Names: New Meadows Cinemas, New Meadows I & II, Cinemas I & II, Cinemas 1 & 2
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As earliest information I can find, the twin-screen New Meadows Cinema (or I & II) was located on Route 28 in North Reading, and opened on August 2, 1972 with Bruce Davison in “Ben” at Screen #1, and Jack Lemmon in “The War Between Men and Women” at Screen #2.
The theatre itself had a few name changes throughout the 1970’s including Cinemas I & II in 1975, Cinemas 1 & 2 in February 1976, North Reading Cinema during the first week of March 1976, went back to its Cinema 1 & 2 name in 1978, and back to North Reading Cinema in the early-1980’s. A third screen was added around the time.
As the latest I can find, the North Readings Cinema closed for the final time in December 1985. This left the Starlite Drive-In nearby the only operating theatre in the town itself.
By 2018 the building was in use as office space for First Class Travel.
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I remember going to this cinema when I was a kid in the mid-1970s. My grandparents lived at the Park Colony apartment complex next door to the cinema and it was an easy way to get me out of the house during vacation periods. Lots of kids lived at the Park Colony and Saturday and Sunday matinees were really popular.
It was a second-run house but I remember it being well run and reasonable (Grandmother would give me $3.00 and that was enough for a ticket, popcorn and a drink).
Used to play a lot of the Sun International Movies - In search of Noah’s Ark; In search of Historic Jesus; Life and Times of Grizzly Adams, etc. Remember seeing Jaws there months after it was playing at first run theatres. Also remember my Grandmother going with me to see “Tommy” and leaving 5 minutes into the film.
Last film I saw there was in 1982 when we went to see “On Golden Pond” in the upstairs “Screening Room” - very small and the screen was as large as my TV at home is now.
In 1983 I started working for General Cinema Theatres as an usher, worked my way up through the organization and wound up managing several of their locations at the Burlington Mall and Northshore Mall in Peabody.