Tri-County 1-5

These are actually two separate theatre buildings in separate shopping centers that, in their last decade of operation, were deceptively linked together as “one theatre” by then-operators Mid-States Theatres, maybe for the purpose of simplifying their location in the public mind.
Originally, the Tri-County Theatre at 11500 Princeton Pike was a three screen theatre near the Cassinelli Square shopping center, and the twin down the street at 11670 Princeton Pike was part of the Princeton Plaza shopping center and called the Princeton. In 1980, two additional screens were added to the Tri-County and it was rechristened the 1-5, while the Princeton’s name was changed to the Tri-County 6-7.

The 1-5 has been demolished. The 6-7 was gutted and a chain bookstore now occupies that space.

Well no flicks since then either!

I think what Tisloews meant was it is a big city for such few comments.How about it Cincy did anyone ever have a story here.

edited version of this appears on the Princeton Cinemas page of this site Princeton Cinemas started as a one-screen…or one “house” as they called it. Then went to a two-screen in the mid 70’s. I worked at Princeton Cinemas from about 1975 to about 1979, with Craig Burk, Sharon Roe, Guy, Kim Hicks, Lauren Burk, Scott Levy, Don Fessenmeyer, Jennifer Lovett, others I can’t recall, and the all time love of my life, always will be, Linda McKinney. I’m Mike Warden. Tore a lot of tickets, kissed Linda as often as possible, sloshed a river of Glo-Coat onto its wood parquet floor, and said “Down the hall and to your right” a million times! Manager was Jim Cummings. Cummings was difficult to work with, and seemed perpetually annoyed, especially for such a young guy. Still, he was always direct with us about what he wanted and he always gave me a fair deal! Assistant manager was Wayne Grady, what a great guy! Easy to work for, but no pushover, we all gave him 100%. Grady had a HUGE Dodge Charger with a teeny-tiny 225 in it! I’ll never forget that! We always got Disney and Richard Pryor movies! When I started, Pryor’s Bingo Long movie was showing. The crew we had was very tight and we did a lot of things together. It was a GREAT job for a high school guy…especially since we got free movie passes. I remember seeing The Deep there, a few months before I started working there. Saw Jaws there, saw The Sting there; The Sting must’ve been there for over a year it seemed like. I was CRUSHED when I saw it had been demolished…used to go there once in awhile and dream. Princeton Cinemas is still gone…but lives on in my soul, along with my little red-haired popcorn girl.

July 11th, 1975 grand opening ad in photo section.