If you go on Historic Aerials, there’s a twin-screen drive-in at the same exact spot. Also, I was wrong on the owner because I got really confused between both theaters.
Found it! The Buena Vista Drive-In is located across the street from 325 S Magnolia Ave, Buena Vista, VA 24416. It appears operational into as late as the early-1980s, but was gone by the 1990s.
The Mars Theatre at the site of a former Kline department store opened its doors on August 22, 1940 with Humphrey Bogart in “It All Came True” with no extra short subjects.
Information about the Mars Theater goes as follows: The Mars Theater is a replacement of the old Pastime Theater, which will have its own Cinema Treasures page soon. As of 1940, the building’s installations featured a large rectangle marquee with black changeable letters on a white board. The three orchid doors are chrome fitted and their glass crescent-shaped. Inside the lobby features walls carrying out the orchid shade, setting off the natural-colored birch doors. There is also a 4ft long fluorescent fixture overhead and the floors are marble. There is also an office leading up into the stairway and the cashier’s office next door. The foyers features a mix of turquoise, blue, and wine colors, featuring one soft blue wall nearby which contains a full-length hand-printed floral design in wine color. The dusty rose fountain has a horizonal fluorescent tube over at which casts a similar colored light. The furniture features a love seat, davenport and two matching straight chairs of chrome, turquoise, and wine leather. There is also a chrome table which with the chairs will be used for registering patrons for special evenings.
The auditorium floors features fluorescent carpeting that is woven with fluorescent materials in the yarn and when activated by invisible rays will glow in the dark making the aisles clearly visible in the darkened theater without interfering with the brilliance of the film. All of the 332 seats ware deep-upholstered in rust colored and automatically fold up giving a patron going between rows more room in which they move. The rows of seats marked by fluorescent tubes to prevent stumbling are slightly curved to provide better vision, and the seats are scientifically arranged on the floor so that the person ahead will not be in direct line between the patron and the screen. The walls of the auditorium are both beige and brown Nu-wood, arranged in a pattern to improve the acoustics. The wall fixtures are designed that combinations of red, blue, green, and yellow nay be used or a fusion of all may be created. The screen is a Dupont thin sheet of plastic which fastened to a fabric background making a seamless screen, and the surface is punched full of thousands of tiny holes about as big as a pinhead. These are invisible from a few feet away but allow the free passage of sound.
In the basement of the theater are both lounge and restrooms for both genders. Unfortunately the lounge wasn’t even finished on grand opening though due to the painters have been waiting for at approximately six weeks for the plaster to dry. Also in the basement is a room which owners plan in time to fix into a private game room. At the front of the theater above the lobby and foyer is the projection room and an apartment for the manager. A unique feature of projectors are the lenses which have been acquired. They are the same projection lenses that were used during the real original production of “Gone With The Wind” bringing it a very unique touch to the screen. The opening of the theater was even more unique due to the fact that famous actors from Bob Hope to Fred MacMurray to Claudette Colbert and Dorothy Lamour all congratulated the owner Marvin Fosse and the management of the Mars Theatre for their opening on the front page of the La Porte City Progress Review.
The Mars Theatre had several short closures from the mid-1950s to the early-1960s, but was later closed for the final time in the early-1960s.
Dr. Detlef Rossmann opened the Casablanca in 1981 as a single-screener. It was twinned in 1984 and tripled in 1996 following modernization. A fourth screen was added in the late-2000s or early-2010s.
The original Apollo Theatre before being destroyed in the September 6, 1944 bombings was built between 1928 and 1930, and opened its doors in 1931 featuring a capacity of 650 seats.
In order to satisfy the Emden population’s need for entertainment, distraction and information during the difficult war years, alternative cinemas were opened in Emden, as well as in Wilhelmshaven. The film screenings after the bombings then immediately took place in the hall of the “Sternburg” restaurant on Auricher Strasse, the hall of the “Mundt” restaurant on Wolthuser Landstrasse (now Wolthuser Strasse) and in the casino of the Emden barracks. The alternative cinema in the “Sternburg” restaurant, called “Lichtspiele” with 250 seats, were immediately belonged to the Jentsch family (possibly the same owners before their theater was destroyed). The operation of the alternative theaters “Lichtspiele” and “Die Kurbel” were then discontinued towards between the late-1940s and early-1950s.
Otto Neubauer reopened the Apollo Theatre in 1950 after a few years of reconstruction. Information serves as follows: The beige walls of the building were decorated with coffee-brown burlap and wood paneling and were atmospherically lit from the projection room, along with the ceiling made of acoustic panels that was divided into coffered sections and the gold-tinted curtain. The projection surface had an area of 30 square meters and was given acoustic life by a Eurodyn sound film amplifier.
Found it. The theater is located on 834 FM-168, Olton, TX 79064. The screen is still standing as of today alongside its entrance and exit traces and ticket booth, although the concession/projection booth is in very rough shape.
The Gastonia Drive-In opened its gates on May 12, 1948 with the Marx Brothers in “A Night At Casablanca” along with an unnamed cartoon and comedy, and was renamed the Sunset Drive-In on July 14, 1950.
The Sunset did receive multiple incidents in the 1970s and 1980s, many of which were operators getting arrested for obscene movies being played on screen. The Sunset Drive-In was still open in the 1980s but was demolished in the 1990s.
The theater itself was 1401 Neal Hawkins Rd, Gastonia, NC 28056.
This started life as the University 10 Cinemas, and opened its doors by First International Theatres in late-1995 (according to a May 1995 article released by the Kansas City Star). It probably downgraded to eight screens and became the University 8 Cinemas right after Carmike took the theater over.
The Cougar Drive-In either opened in 1957 or 1958. The 1957 aerial view shows nothing being constructed yet, but a 1958 aerial view shows the theater already in operation.
Found it. It was located on 4794 NC-41, Fairmont, NC 28340, which looks operational in the 1950s and 1960s. The theater may’ve closed later on in the 1960s, as it was already completely demolished by 1971.
The Clinton Point Theatre closed with “A Fish Called Wanda” as its final film, and was last managed by Joe Freiwald and Bessie Hermanowski (one of the employees there was her deaf 11-year-old daughter). Several of the employees there had very emotional moments after its final showing.
During its final months of operation, the then-Mayor of Clinton, Robert Nulman, took a stroll inside the Clinton Point Theatre just to feel close to his son Daniel who previously worked as a candy salesman as a teenager, but unfortunately he died from his injuries from a vehicle accident in 1987.
If you go on Historic Aerials, there’s a twin-screen drive-in at the same exact spot. Also, I was wrong on the owner because I got really confused between both theaters.
Found it! The Buena Vista Drive-In is located across the street from 325 S Magnolia Ave, Buena Vista, VA 24416. It appears operational into as late as the early-1980s, but was gone by the 1990s.
The Central Texas Drive-In is a twin-screen drive-in owned by Everett Bryant, and operated from the early-1970s until either the mid-or-late-1980s.
Opened on August 4, 1953 with “Bonzo Goes To College” (unknown if extras added), and closed after the 1984 season.
Twinned on June 24, 1983.
The Mars Theatre at the site of a former Kline department store opened its doors on August 22, 1940 with Humphrey Bogart in “It All Came True” with no extra short subjects.
Information about the Mars Theater goes as follows: The Mars Theater is a replacement of the old Pastime Theater, which will have its own Cinema Treasures page soon. As of 1940, the building’s installations featured a large rectangle marquee with black changeable letters on a white board. The three orchid doors are chrome fitted and their glass crescent-shaped. Inside the lobby features walls carrying out the orchid shade, setting off the natural-colored birch doors. There is also a 4ft long fluorescent fixture overhead and the floors are marble. There is also an office leading up into the stairway and the cashier’s office next door. The foyers features a mix of turquoise, blue, and wine colors, featuring one soft blue wall nearby which contains a full-length hand-printed floral design in wine color. The dusty rose fountain has a horizonal fluorescent tube over at which casts a similar colored light. The furniture features a love seat, davenport and two matching straight chairs of chrome, turquoise, and wine leather. There is also a chrome table which with the chairs will be used for registering patrons for special evenings.
The auditorium floors features fluorescent carpeting that is woven with fluorescent materials in the yarn and when activated by invisible rays will glow in the dark making the aisles clearly visible in the darkened theater without interfering with the brilliance of the film. All of the 332 seats ware deep-upholstered in rust colored and automatically fold up giving a patron going between rows more room in which they move. The rows of seats marked by fluorescent tubes to prevent stumbling are slightly curved to provide better vision, and the seats are scientifically arranged on the floor so that the person ahead will not be in direct line between the patron and the screen. The walls of the auditorium are both beige and brown Nu-wood, arranged in a pattern to improve the acoustics. The wall fixtures are designed that combinations of red, blue, green, and yellow nay be used or a fusion of all may be created. The screen is a Dupont thin sheet of plastic which fastened to a fabric background making a seamless screen, and the surface is punched full of thousands of tiny holes about as big as a pinhead. These are invisible from a few feet away but allow the free passage of sound.
In the basement of the theater are both lounge and restrooms for both genders. Unfortunately the lounge wasn’t even finished on grand opening though due to the painters have been waiting for at approximately six weeks for the plaster to dry. Also in the basement is a room which owners plan in time to fix into a private game room. At the front of the theater above the lobby and foyer is the projection room and an apartment for the manager. A unique feature of projectors are the lenses which have been acquired. They are the same projection lenses that were used during the real original production of “Gone With The Wind” bringing it a very unique touch to the screen. The opening of the theater was even more unique due to the fact that famous actors from Bob Hope to Fred MacMurray to Claudette Colbert and Dorothy Lamour all congratulated the owner Marvin Fosse and the management of the Mars Theatre for their opening on the front page of the La Porte City Progress Review.
The Mars Theatre had several short closures from the mid-1950s to the early-1960s, but was later closed for the final time in the early-1960s.
Opened on November 21, 1954.
Dr. Detlef Rossmann opened the Casablanca in 1981 as a single-screener. It was twinned in 1984 and tripled in 1996 following modernization. A fourth screen was added in the late-2000s or early-2010s.
The original Apollo Theatre before being destroyed in the September 6, 1944 bombings was built between 1928 and 1930, and opened its doors in 1931 featuring a capacity of 650 seats.
Otto Neubauer reopened the Apollo Theatre in 1950 after a few years of reconstruction. Information serves as follows: The beige walls of the building were decorated with coffee-brown burlap and wood paneling and were atmospherically lit from the projection room, along with the ceiling made of acoustic panels that was divided into coffered sections and the gold-tinted curtain. The projection surface had an area of 30 square meters and was given acoustic life by a Eurodyn sound film amplifier.
Found it. The theater is located on 834 FM-168, Olton, TX 79064. The screen is still standing as of today alongside its entrance and exit traces and ticket booth, although the concession/projection booth is in very rough shape.
The Gastonia Drive-In opened its gates on May 12, 1948 with the Marx Brothers in “A Night At Casablanca” along with an unnamed cartoon and comedy, and was renamed the Sunset Drive-In on July 14, 1950.
The Sunset did receive multiple incidents in the 1970s and 1980s, many of which were operators getting arrested for obscene movies being played on screen. The Sunset Drive-In was still open in the 1980s but was demolished in the 1990s.
The theater itself was 1401 Neal Hawkins Rd, Gastonia, NC 28056.
Once operated by Commonwealth Theaters, later United Artists, and later First International Theatres.
Once operated by First International Theatres.
Once operated by First International Theatres.
Once operated by First International Theatres.
Once operated by First International Theatres.
This started life as the University 10 Cinemas, and opened its doors by First International Theatres in late-1995 (according to a May 1995 article released by the Kansas City Star). It probably downgraded to eight screens and became the University 8 Cinemas right after Carmike took the theater over.
Once operated by First International Theatres.
The Cougar Drive-In either opened in 1957 or 1958. The 1957 aerial view shows nothing being constructed yet, but a 1958 aerial view shows the theater already in operation.
Found it. It was located on 4794 NC-41, Fairmont, NC 28340, which looks operational in the 1950s and 1960s. The theater may’ve closed later on in the 1960s, as it was already completely demolished by 1971.
Closed on October 5, 1983 with “Stroker Ace” and “The Sting II”.
The Clinton Point Theatre closed with “A Fish Called Wanda” as its final film, and was last managed by Joe Freiwald and Bessie Hermanowski (one of the employees there was her deaf 11-year-old daughter). Several of the employees there had very emotional moments after its final showing.
During its final months of operation, the then-Mayor of Clinton, Robert Nulman, took a stroll inside the Clinton Point Theatre just to feel close to his son Daniel who previously worked as a candy salesman as a teenager, but unfortunately he died from his injuries from a vehicle accident in 1987.
I’m very sure that only one person attended the showing of “Construction In Reverse”. It’s a sad one.
Closed in the 1970s.
Closed on October 7, 1982.