The Sunset Drive-In opened its gates on November 19, 1954 with Spencer Tracy in “Broken Lance” along with the Tom and Jerry cartoon “Just Ducky” and the Tweety & Sylvester Looney Tune “A Street Cat Named Sylvester”.
On March 23, 1977, John H. Stembler, the president of the Georgia Theatre Company, and Hugh Tolleson, president of Southeastern Investment Trust, announced that a new deluxe Twin Cinema was planned near the south end of the plaza featuring automated xeon-latter projection for both screens. Construction didn’t start until the following year.
After a very short construction, GTC opened the Moultrie Twin Cinema’s doors on June 30, 1978 with “Grease” at Screen 1 and “Convoy” at Screen 2, featuring a total capacity of 565 seats (with 355 seats at Screen 1 and 210 seats at Screen 2).
Opened on November 19, 1993 as a Loews theater. It would eventually become a Sony theater the following year and then back to Loews two years later. Loews Cineplex closed Rolling Meadows' only remaining movie house on August 19, 2000 after the building itself was sold.
The capacity of the second Cordele Drive-In looks a lot larger than the first Cordele Drive-In. The first Cordele Drive-In had 145 cars, while this one looks more like 300 (which represent an expenditure of some $100,000 according to a very small article on its construction in September 1965).
The Belvedere Theatre opened its doors on September 17, 1964 with Andy Williams in “I’d Rather Be Rich”.
Twinned in the 1970s, the Eastern Federal Corporation chain operated the Belvedere Theatre throughout much of the late-1970s and into the first half of the 1980s. This lasted until 1986 when it became part of the Chappell Cinemas chain, and would eventually become a $1 discount house. Also, during its Eastern Federal run, its policy switched from first-run to second-run in the early-1980s.
The Belvedere closed as a second-run discount house on August 21, 1988 with “Red Heat” at Screen 1 and “Bad Dreams” at Screen 2.
Once abandoned for a couple of years, the Belvedere then reopened its doors in 1990 as an adult house, and lasted until its closure in the Spring of 2009.
Tifton was once left without a movie theater for a few years after the closure of the triple-screen Town & Country Cinemas at the Town & Country Mall in 1990 due to the mall’s out-of-town landlord’s increasing costs and poor revenues. The closure was actually led by Carmike, who lastly operated the mall cinema. People at the time were forced to travel either 20 to 40 miles away to see first-run movies in Cordele, Moultrie, Valdosta, or Albany.
However in April 1991, the Tifton-Tift County Chamber of Commerce is trying to prove that the county of 35,000 has enough fans to support a new theater being built. The chamber has distributed surveys to residents across Tiff County but the city of Tifton will force to sell to a theater company just as if it were an industrial prospect.
Another address that works is 105 Farmers Market Rd, Cordele, GA 31015, and was the second out of two Cordele Drive-Ins in its history.
Martin Theatres opened this one in 1966 as a replacement of a smaller drive-in located south of Cordele on Highway 41 which closed that same year, also named Cordele Drive-In (it will have its own Cinema Treasures page soon).
The New Pex Theatre opened its doors on May 2, 1942. This was generically supposed to be the replacement of the Old Pex Theatre (formerly the Dixie Theatre from July 1923 until May 1937) but it never happened until the following year. Unlike most towns, both the Old and New Pex Theatres served as movie houses at the same time, but for only a short time until the Old Pex Theatre closed in 1943, leaving the New Pex Theatre as the only movie house in Eatonton which became eventually as simply Pex Theatre.
The Pex closed as a full-time movie house in 1979 but briefly reopened a few times in the 1980s as both a special events (and partially movie house but only for special occasions).
The Casino Theater opened its doors on Christmas Eve 1912 with a photoplay presentation of “The North Wind’s Malice”, with an estimate $50,000 on the building. It was first operated by Walford W. Watt and J.J. Harter.
As of 1912, the theater originally housed 750 seats featuring two loges between the lobby. The stage was elevated featuring equipment of scenery, which had four drop curtains. The original projectors as of 1912 are Simplex models, and on the top floor of the building featured a dance hall measured 37x100ft with cloak rooms and restrooms (that which opened one week later).
The 489-seat Casino Theater was renamed the Sac Theater during the first week of February 1948. It was still open in the 1980s.
NOTE: The theater did not returned back to its original Casino Theatre name. The Sac Theatre name was used for around three-to-four decades, although I cannot find its closing date at all.
Opened with Jane Powell in “Small Town Girl” along with an unnamed cartoon and a newsreel. The Carroll Drive-In closed on September 26, 1982 with “The Last American Virgin”.
The Sunset Drive-In opened its gates on November 19, 1954 with Spencer Tracy in “Broken Lance” along with the Tom and Jerry cartoon “Just Ducky” and the Tweety & Sylvester Looney Tune “A Street Cat Named Sylvester”.
Opened in June 1948, closed after the 1956 season.
On March 23, 1977, John H. Stembler, the president of the Georgia Theatre Company, and Hugh Tolleson, president of Southeastern Investment Trust, announced that a new deluxe Twin Cinema was planned near the south end of the plaza featuring automated xeon-latter projection for both screens. Construction didn’t start until the following year.
After a very short construction, GTC opened the Moultrie Twin Cinema’s doors on June 30, 1978 with “Grease” at Screen 1 and “Convoy” at Screen 2, featuring a total capacity of 565 seats (with 355 seats at Screen 1 and 210 seats at Screen 2).
It was closed on May 10, 2007.
Opened on February 19, 1993.
Once operated by Loews Cineplex.
Actual closing date is March 1, 2001, and was last operated by Loews Cineplex.
Opened on November 19, 1993 as a Loews theater. It would eventually become a Sony theater the following year and then back to Loews two years later. Loews Cineplex closed Rolling Meadows' only remaining movie house on August 19, 2000 after the building itself was sold.
The capacity of the second Cordele Drive-In looks a lot larger than the first Cordele Drive-In. The first Cordele Drive-In had 145 cars, while this one looks more like 300 (which represent an expenditure of some $100,000 according to a very small article on its construction in September 1965).
This closed in 1966 just in time for the opening of the newer and larger Cordele Drive-In north of town.
Actual closing date is July 27, 2000.
A 1972 aerial view shows the Rio appearing that it was still operational, but was completely gone by the early-1980s.
Closed on August 31, 1984 with Disney’s “The Jungle Book” at Screen 1 and “Footloose” at Screen 2.
Closed on September 5, 1985 with “The Black Cauldron” at Screen 1 and “Cocoon” at Screen 2.
The Belvedere Theatre opened its doors on September 17, 1964 with Andy Williams in “I’d Rather Be Rich”.
Twinned in the 1970s, the Eastern Federal Corporation chain operated the Belvedere Theatre throughout much of the late-1970s and into the first half of the 1980s. This lasted until 1986 when it became part of the Chappell Cinemas chain, and would eventually become a $1 discount house. Also, during its Eastern Federal run, its policy switched from first-run to second-run in the early-1980s.
The Belvedere closed as a second-run discount house on August 21, 1988 with “Red Heat” at Screen 1 and “Bad Dreams” at Screen 2.
Once abandoned for a couple of years, the Belvedere then reopened its doors in 1990 as an adult house, and lasted until its closure in the Spring of 2009.
Tifton was once left without a movie theater for a few years after the closure of the triple-screen Town & Country Cinemas at the Town & Country Mall in 1990 due to the mall’s out-of-town landlord’s increasing costs and poor revenues. The closure was actually led by Carmike, who lastly operated the mall cinema. People at the time were forced to travel either 20 to 40 miles away to see first-run movies in Cordele, Moultrie, Valdosta, or Albany.
However in April 1991, the Tifton-Tift County Chamber of Commerce is trying to prove that the county of 35,000 has enough fans to support a new theater being built. The chamber has distributed surveys to residents across Tiff County but the city of Tifton will force to sell to a theater company just as if it were an industrial prospect.
Another address that works is 105 Farmers Market Rd, Cordele, GA 31015, and was the second out of two Cordele Drive-Ins in its history.
Martin Theatres opened this one in 1966 as a replacement of a smaller drive-in located south of Cordele on Highway 41 which closed that same year, also named Cordele Drive-In (it will have its own Cinema Treasures page soon).
Did Perry had a drive-in theater before 1971, or is this the only one?
The New Pex Theatre opened its doors on May 2, 1942. This was generically supposed to be the replacement of the Old Pex Theatre (formerly the Dixie Theatre from July 1923 until May 1937) but it never happened until the following year. Unlike most towns, both the Old and New Pex Theatres served as movie houses at the same time, but for only a short time until the Old Pex Theatre closed in 1943, leaving the New Pex Theatre as the only movie house in Eatonton which became eventually as simply Pex Theatre.
The Pex closed as a full-time movie house in 1979 but briefly reopened a few times in the 1980s as both a special events (and partially movie house but only for special occasions).
The Adele Theater closed in July 1923 in connection of the opening of the Dixie Theatre (later Pex Theatre).
Appears that this was taken on the final day of operation.
I’m pretty sure that the theater was built between in the late-1970s and early-1980s judging by aerial, but its early history remains unknown.
The theater was once known as “Ritz 4” when it had four screens before expanding to eight in the early-2000s.
First opened with four screens under the name “Waynesville Cinema 4”. A fifth screen was added in 1993, and three more were added later in the decade.
The Park Cinema actually closed in the mid-1980s. It was still open in 1983 judging by advertisements.
The Casino Theater opened its doors on Christmas Eve 1912 with a photoplay presentation of “The North Wind’s Malice”, with an estimate $50,000 on the building. It was first operated by Walford W. Watt and J.J. Harter.
As of 1912, the theater originally housed 750 seats featuring two loges between the lobby. The stage was elevated featuring equipment of scenery, which had four drop curtains. The original projectors as of 1912 are Simplex models, and on the top floor of the building featured a dance hall measured 37x100ft with cloak rooms and restrooms (that which opened one week later).
The 489-seat Casino Theater was renamed the Sac Theater during the first week of February 1948. It was still open in the 1980s.
NOTE: The theater did not returned back to its original Casino Theatre name. The Sac Theatre name was used for around three-to-four decades, although I cannot find its closing date at all.
Opened with Jane Powell in “Small Town Girl” along with an unnamed cartoon and a newsreel. The Carroll Drive-In closed on September 26, 1982 with “The Last American Virgin”.