Cinema 4 Center
672 S. 5th Street,
St. Charles,
MO
63301
672 S. 5th Street,
St. Charles,
MO
63301
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The Cinema 4 Center was Wehrenberg’s first venture into St. Charles County. The four screen theater opened June 26, 1970. It closed in September 1987 and was demolished in 1994 to make way for a Walgreens.
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My ex wife managed the C4C in the early -mid 80s. It wasn’t a very nice place in its final years before being replaced by the Ct. Charles 10 (now 14). She also managed the St. Andrews for a short time.
I knew a couple of the projectionists at C4C. ex1431a your name wouldn’t happen to be “Bud”, would it?
The architect was George Berg. Seating capacity was listed as 1200 with 2 auditoriums seating 350; the remaining two seating 250.
The venue became a dollar house in July 1987 when Wehrenberg opened the nearby St. Charles 10. Theatre held on briefly with this policy before closing August 30, 1987 with bills of Adventures in Baby Sitting, Spaceballs, Ernest Goes to Camp and Predator.
Thanks, JAlex and Cholla, for the updates on C4C. Sad to hear it was getting run down in its final years, because I have so many memories of this place. So they went dollar show in ‘87…that would be during my last year of graduate school at University of Illinois. I was just too wiped out from graduate study to do anything when I was home. I still, however, think Cinema 4 Center would have made a better dollar show location than St. Andrews, if it were still standing, but since Wehrenberg ran it, they were bound to close it soon once the St. Charles 10 opened.
Cholla, I was part of the Allen/Bill/John triumvirate in the 70’s.
Okay, that was before the ex ran the place. I only can remember two, one being “Bud” and the other, IIRC his name was Jerry? He learned he was a distant relative to Howard Hughes and may have resigned to go through all that in the courts. I did live across the street from him for a short time in St. Charles in about 83.
BTW, the address provided for the venue has to be incorrect. It is listed as North Fifth Street, that is incorrect, it was on SOUTH Fifth, as the dividing line for N/S is First Capitol Drive and it was definitely south, as it was along I-70 south of Booneslick. A Walgreen’s is on the site now.
The last movie I saw at Cinema 4 was The Great Mouse Detective. According to imdb.com, that movie was released in 1986. So that means I saw my last film at C4C about a year before it closed down for good. Sad to see the place go, but glad I have a good memory of my final movie there. Never forget that place…
June 26th, 1970 grand opening ad in photo section. It was the first multiplex in the St. Louis area.
The ad notes it was the first FOUR-theatre complex. The first multi-plex in the market had opened in 1964.
A 8/28/1990 article in the St Louis Post-Dispatch reported that Wehrenberg closed this theatre in September of 1987, shortly after the St. Charles 10 Cine opened.