Showcase Cinema Erlanger
3220 Meadow Lane,
Erlanger,
KY
41018
3220 Meadow Lane,
Erlanger,
KY
41018
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Previously operated by: National Amusements
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News About This Theater
- May 24, 2012 — Celebrating the Original STAR WARS on its 35th Anniversary
- May 21, 2010 — Happy 30th, "Empire"
Located just west of I71 on Meadow Lane this opened as a 5-screen theatre December 20, 1974. It became an 8-screen multiplex opened in 1976. A single story building with a mostly glass front with white stucco style trim. Large lobby with the auditoriums directly behind the lobby. Well maintained for a multiplex built in 1974.
National Amusements closed the cinema in late-2008. It was demolished in October 2015.
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Chuck Van Bibber
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Here is a 1986 photo:
http://tinyurl.com/ln4msj
A 1974 Issue of Boxoffice mentions that Mid-States was going to build a 6-plex in Erlanger at the intersection of Donaldson Hwy & Hartman Rd. Does anybody know if this was built or if perhaps the Showcase got to it first?
I saw many movies here – a nice enough place with good sized screens but they began to let it go after a bit…. I was there to see “The Sixth Sense” in 1999 and a panel fell from the ceiling into a batch of empty seats.
They closed this in April 2008 in anticipation of the DeLux Cinema that was being built just down the road at the Florence Mall.
There is no theaters on Donaldson, so they were never built.
This opened on December 20th, 1974 with 5 screens. Grand opening ad and Google 3D aerial in photo section.
This building is currently being demolished.
This is another cinema I filled in as projectionists. My brother in law managed this unit for a while.
This theater will always be in my memory as it was where I first saw Empire Strikes Back in 1980. Packed house, line wrapped around the building. When Vader reveals his secret, everyone in the theater gasped at once. Last movie I saw here was Matrix Revolutions, which is fitting since it was a wreck of a movie.
Went to this theater all the time as a boy. Saw Star Trek the Motion Picture there several times during its 1979 run. Moved away but got to see it one more time during a visit to see family in the area. Saw Shrek there in 2001. I was amazed at how nothing had changed. It looked exactly as it did in 1979, as if I’d stepped through a wormhole into the past. It was still very clean and well kept and comfortable. I’m sorry to see that it’s gone now.
Grand opening ad:
Demolition video: