Lenox Square Theatre

2nd screen opened on June 11th, 1969. Ad in photo section.

We went to Lenox a lot when I was a kid, being the movie junkie that I am. Much later, after the theaters had been augmented, we would go sometimes before we went down to the Silver Screen to watch Rocky Horror. In the 80’s, the theater got to be a joke because the sound was horrid. The last film I saw there was “Revenge of the Pink Panther”, which itself was insipid. Still, I have so many good memories of Lenox Square.

The Burt Lancaster film, “The Train” (1964) was the only film I saw here. It was a single-screen theatre then. Though in black and white, “The Train” was an exciting film on the nearly wall-to-wall screen. The memory is 49 years old, but I am pretty sure that we entered from inside the mall, which was open-air back then.

I’ve been gone from Atlanta since ‘97. A friend recently told me about CT. I was really shocked to find
the Lenox Square Theaters closed. That’s like hearing that Lenox Square itself had folded.
Yes, I saw all the Bond movies from the 70s there. I spent many a rainy Atlanta afternoon at the
Lenox Square movies.
And yes, the later expanded layout was a lousy place to see a movie. One frequently sat in the
theater and heard the soundtrack of the movie next door blasting through the wall. And the audiences got so rude and obnoxious (usually groups of teens) I finally stopped going to evening or weekend
showings, sticking to the less well attended matinees.
I thought I remembered the original entrance was located street level, not inside the mall. It was -
thanks for that photo Stan (and all your great posts.)
No, in its latter days, Lenox Square Theaters was not a great spot, but I always thought the place
would be there. Too bad it’s not.

Oct 15 1988 these movies are playing: “DIE HARD”,“SWEET HEARTS Dance”.ALIEN NATION", “MEMORIES OF ME” “ACCUSED"and "TOUGHER THAN LEATHER”.

Great ad on 007,Dennis.

Is this the same theater that was in the mall, next to the food court? I only went a few times in the early ‘90s, and by then any previous charm was long gone. It was an awful location, made worse when the then-state-of-the-art AMC Phipps Plaza opened up across the street.

All the bad posts about the Lenox Square Theater are true. I remember going a few times before they split the big auditorium. It definitely was not art deco but more of the typical 60s theaters.

After they began splitting auditoriums, it was like looking down a long hallway at a TV screen. The screen did not look much bigger than what some people have in their homes now.

Another bad memory of this theater was seeing Armageddon (Excuse the spelling). That night they had the lights on in back of the auditorium and someone was moving stuff around creating enough noise to drown out the movie.

What once was a nice place degenerated into the worst place to see a movie.

DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER. STARTS FRIDAY at these two theatres.
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Here are two photos of the marquee:
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Here is a photo of the entrance back when the Lenox was a single screen cinema.

Lenox Square was among the handful of theaters that was equipped with Cinema Digital Sound (CDS), the 1990-1991 precursor to the contemporary digital sound formats: Dolby Digital, DTS, and SDDS.