Lincoln Mall Cinemas
622 George Washington Highway,
Lincoln,
RI
02865
622 George Washington Highway,
Lincoln,
RI
02865
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Closed March 28th, 1999 as everyone went to Showcase.
Opened on June 25th, 1975. Grand opening ad posted.
$2 movies late 70s. Me and my buddy would ride bikes six miles from our homes, then purchase PG tickets. We
d then sneak into an R rated one! The most memorable for us 13 and 14 year old's, Midnight Express! (you know the scene Im talking about)I saw JAWS there the week the cinema opened. That makes me feel so old. I saw quite a few films there. LOGAN’S RUN, FUTUREWORLD, a four-film Barbra Streisand festival, THE DEVIL’s RAIN, and a very bizarre double-bill (from Disney no less) of DR SYN ALIAS THE SCARECROW and another feature, can’t remember the name of the second one.
Gerald…I have a photocopy of an ad from the June 20, 1975 issue of The Providence Journal announcing the June 25 grand opening of the Lincoln Mall Cinema I-II-III-IV.
“Jaws,” “Bambi” (re-issue), “The Eiger Sanction” and “What’s Up, Doc?” were the debut attractions.
It’s unclear if this was a true grand opening or if it was a grand re-opening/expansion of what had previously been a single-screener or twin.
I wrote in my log about going to see at film at the “new” Lincoln Mall Cinemas in July 1975. So the place had to have opened in the summer of 1975. The first film I saw there, shortly after opening, was Jaws. I described the decor as being “bomb shelter” style.
Today in History 1978 shown on the four screens 1. If ever i see you again 2. Thank God its Friday 3. Castaways 4.An unmarried woman every day before 2:00 all seat $1.50 phone 333-2130 General Cinema Owned and operated
The new Cinemaworld, a 16-screen multiplex, opened in November, 2005 at Lincoln Mall, near where the Lincoln Mall Cinemas used to be.
it will be interesting to see how this new Cinemaworld competes with the various Showcase Cinemas in the area. I bet within 5 yrs you will see the owners of Showcase buy this theatre they did end up purchasing Prov Place and Apple Valley a few yrs after it was opened. Showcase is such a big player in this area and they don’t like the competition moving in on there area.
Lincoln Mall Cinema was my first destination with my first car, a 1966 Catalina. I went to see Jaws with two friends.
Why I remember this, I’ll never know.
general cinemas were the owners. 4 cinemas.
It was a 4-plex at the end. Linclon Mall announced today that Cinemaworld will operate a new 16-plex, scheduled to open 10/1/05.
I do not believe it was EVER a 4-6 plex.
A nondescript cinderblock pile, this 4-6 plex (at least in later years) was nevertheless the A option to see first run movies in the late ‘70’s and '80’s.
This was a place I frequently visited to see first run films during its two-decades-plus of operation. “E.T. – The Extra -Terrestrial” was a major seat-filler here in 1982. The auditoriums were long bland bomb-shelter style with funnel-type screens with no black masking, as I recall. It was similar to its sister cinema in Warwick, the now-also-gone Warwick Mall Cinemas, also run by National General, and the programs were often identical. A third member of that group was the Garden City Cinemas in Cranston. I remember enjoying William Friedkin’s “Sorcerer,” his remake of Clouzot’s “The Wages of Fear” at the Lincoln Mall Cinemas in 1977.