There’s not a lot of information that I can find about this theater, but there are actually two theaters that were named the Sakura Theatre. The original Sakura Theater at Building 630 opened in 1954 as a 20,776 square-foot single-screener and operated for 62 years until the original theater’s closure on June 30, 2016, when a newer theater opened. Unfortunately, the original Sakura Theater was immediately demolished after closure in order to expand their Child Development Center.
A newer Sakura Theater opened the next day nearby on July 1, 2016, as a major upgrade to the Command Assembly Hall which was constructed with an estimate $28 million that lasted for more than two years between September 2013 and March 2016 with an additional $1.5 million spent furnishing the facility, featuring a modern stage with a large high-leveled widescreen CinemaScope screen, state-of-the art seating, four ticket windows, guest lockers, an updated and expanded concession stand with five soda fountains, 2D and 3D digital projection, and a surround-sound system. The newer Sakura is located on 1 Chome Misumimachi, Iwakuni, Yamaguchi 740-0025, Japan.
Once known as UA Cinemas 8 when it expanded to eight screens in December 1985. Two additional screens were added on May 22, 1987, bringing a total to 10 screens, and was renamed UA Cinemas 10.
General Cinema began operating the Fashion Island Cinema on June 22, 1984, when the Boston-based chain bought several of Mann’s theaters for an “undisclosed amount of money”.
Although the Las Vegas Airdome would’ve been Las Vegas’s first airdome theater when it first opened on June 30, 1911, but this is not the first ever movie theater in Las Vegas. The first ever full-time movie theater to operate in Las Vegas is the short-lived Isis Theatre, launching two years earlier in 1909 and closing in 1911, though Las Vegas already had an entertainment venue beforehand called the Las Vegas Opera House which opened on February 12, 1908, and destroyed by a fire on May 26, 1912.
The Las Vegas Airdome was located in the heart of the downtown area on 310 Fremont Street, Las Vegas, NV 89101, and the El Portal Theatre was built at the site, which has its own CT page.
This originally housed 380 seats reclining 27½ degrees and a total of 16 speakers around the 69x108ft dome with a total surface of 9,600 square feet, launching on December 10, 1979, with “To Fly” in six-track stereophonic sound. The original projector measures 2,000 pounds with an 8,000-watt water-cooled Xenon lamp and can hold 15,000 feet of film. The entire dome auditorium’s huge screen covers 86% of a movie’s surface.
This opened in 1912 as the replacement of the Las Vegas Opera House nearby on 25 Fremont Street, which launched on February 12, 1908. William Squires was the last operator of the original opera house who left the long-forgotten Isis Theatre in 1911 following that theater’s closure. Squires operated the theater until the Las Vegas Opera House was destroyed by a fire on May 26, 1912.
After its September 1979 closing as a first-run house, the theater did briefly reopen until July 1981 as the New Art Cinema screening art movies. The building was placed on sale on October 26, 1982, and was demolished in August 1983.
When “Blue Planet” opened up the Robert D. Linder Family OMNIMAX Theater on November 10, 1990, a total of 500 people packed the Museum Center at Union Terminal. According to Duszynski, he replied that the OMNIMAX literally did hosted the “World Premiere” of “Blue Planet” without notice, which was shown six days before their scheduled premiere showing at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington D.C. The 269-seat theater features cushioned Burgandy seats with headrests, and the entire five-story 260-degree screen measures 72-foot-wide.
According to the Cincinnati Post, the OMNIMAX was first announced five years earlier on November 13, 1985 as part of a massive upgrade and expansion to the Heritage Center at the terminal. This part of expansion has also been spoken of as a “permanent legacy” project to help observe Cincinnati’s Bicentennial in 1988, but the Bicentennial Commission has decided to focus more on fund-raising efforts on completing Sawyer Point Park for $14 million. And as mentioned, the theater never made it to open by the bicentennial year.
This all started on September 7, 1983, when two Vancouver architects proposed on an innovative science center just on time for Expo ‘86, including Arthur Erickson of his own architect company named after himself whose office refused to comment on the proposal. Literally nobody received a comment by the time the announcement made it to the Vancouver Sun, including British Columbia Place vice-president Paul Manning. The proposal includes an Omnimax theater measuring 350 feet high in order to afford an excellent viewing platform and a restaurant overlooking False Creek and the entire Expo area, including B.C. Place and over the stadium to the downtown silhouette, servicing by exterior glass elevators.
In March 1984, Telecom Canada released a photo of a sketch on a separate theater at the Expo, a 360-degree Circle-Vision cylinder-shaped building, and at the same time, Walt Disney Productions announced that they’ll be importing to make a film about Canada that will be presented just on time for Expo ‘86, marking one of their very last True-Life documentaries ever made by Disney. Though Circle 360 was already introduced at Expo ‘67 in Montreal, the technique there was also used for the O’ Canada presentation at the Canadian pavilion in Epcot. Disney staff replied that the film will likely be 17 minutes long and will be more than a travelogue. However, Expo officials considered building their own OMNIMAX that was first announced after the September 1983 proposal as part of its preview center at the east end of False Creek. According to Telecom Canada, they replied that the Circle-Vision will be at the opposite side of the Expo. The work on the OMNIMAX continued immediately following the announcement, with Cana Construction Limited being the main construction company.
On July 4, 1984, the Vancouver Sun announced that the Expo ‘86 Preview Center will open on May 2, 1985, including a small amount of information about the OMNIMAX, which the screen measures 35 feet high and 70 feet in diameter inside a globe that measures 40 meters. At the time, filmmakers were already in the middle of filming the wonders of the world. Alongside the OMNIMAX also contains a visitor interactive Future Choice and a Design 2000 Theatre, providing guests with a glimpse into the future. Cana not just constructed the OMNIMAX, but also the Expo Center, which was the first major construction contract to be let by Expo to Cana, including design fees ranged between $15 and $17 million. Expo had been letting contracts on site preparation since their first major contract in early February 1984 went to Fraser River Piledriving Limited for $785,000. Dillingham Construction Limited, Farmer Construction Limited, Brittain Steel Limited, and Marbell Pacific Enterprises Limited did help the pavilions.
In March 1985, first photos of the construction from inside the OMNIMAX were released by The Province, which in the article bills as a 500-seat OMNIMAX with an 88-foot screen in a 17-story dome building, which is a bigger upgrade than before. That same month, crews stocked up extra material, including a polyethylene sheet, just in case of any flooding or water staining the curved screen. Len Robinson of Cana replied that finding leaks is extremely different because of technique. Finally, the OMNIMAX opened its doors on the launch of the Expo, May 2, 1986, featuring the 20-minute film “A Freedom To Move”, showing the wonders of the world from above in all seven continents. Though this OMNIMAX lasted until its closure on October 13, 1986, Vancouver city council announced on January 27, 1987, that behind the Arts, Sciences, and Technology Center’s plan for a Science World in the domed Expo Center, they agreed to advance $40,000 from that year’s grant for design work and they hoped the proposed science center will not help kill the Vancouver planetarium which faces budget problems and aging equipment, which includes using the OMNIMAX as its site. They did, with an estimate nearly $10 million, which includes a 5,100-square-meter extension to the $20 million building, and will bring the total usable space up to 10,000.
A renovation was also taken place at the OMNIMAX, which downgraded the seats from the Expo ‘86 capacity of 500 seats to 400 seats, and an upgraded sound system, with 28 speakers and 12,000 watts of wrap-around sound. The OMNIMAX Theatre at Science World opened its doors on May 6, 1989 with “Beavers”, and was once named Alcan OMNIMAX Theatre from 1996 until 2007, before it was renamed back OMNIMAX Theatre at Science World.
The Cypress Drive-In is an EXTREMELY short-lived drive-in, and truly the shortest-lived drive-in in Tampa, launching on August 27, 1953 with Rosalind Russell in “Never Wave at a Wac” and Gregory Peck in “The World in His Arms” along with an unnamed cartoon and a newsreel, and closing on August 13, 1954 with Walt Disney’s doubleheader of “Rob Roy” and “Pecos Bill” along with an unnamed cartoon. It immediately became a trailer park afterward.
This closed in 1984. Films were last advertised on March 11, 1984, though it was still listed on showtimes into as late as August 30, 1984. Otherwise, I cannot confirm the exact closing date.
Appears that this closed on February 3, 1985 with “Johnny Dangerously” in Screen 1 and “The Flamingo Kid” in Screen 2. I don’t see any advertisements afterward.
Throughout the late-1970s and early-1980s, the Turnpike ran X-rated movies. Normal mainstream movies returned to the Turnpike at the start of the 1984 season, but this appeared to not last long at all. The Turnpike appears that it was last advertised on the Knickerbocker on June 12, 1984 with “Police Academy” and “Footloose”, but it was unknown if that’s final closure.
The Poinciana Theatre opened its doors on February 4, 1911 by Charles T. Friend, housing 448 seats, and opened with the Biograph film “His Trust Fulfilled”.
According to its schedule as of October 2026, it appears that the Times is playing a mix of classic, independent, and first-run films.
Actual opening date is December 3, 1915.
Closed in June 1988.
There’s not a lot of information that I can find about this theater, but there are actually two theaters that were named the Sakura Theatre. The original Sakura Theater at Building 630 opened in 1954 as a 20,776 square-foot single-screener and operated for 62 years until the original theater’s closure on June 30, 2016, when a newer theater opened. Unfortunately, the original Sakura Theater was immediately demolished after closure in order to expand their Child Development Center.
A newer Sakura Theater opened the next day nearby on July 1, 2016, as a major upgrade to the Command Assembly Hall which was constructed with an estimate $28 million that lasted for more than two years between September 2013 and March 2016 with an additional $1.5 million spent furnishing the facility, featuring a modern stage with a large high-leveled widescreen CinemaScope screen, state-of-the art seating, four ticket windows, guest lockers, an updated and expanded concession stand with five soda fountains, 2D and 3D digital projection, and a surround-sound system. The newer Sakura is located on 1 Chome Misumimachi, Iwakuni, Yamaguchi 740-0025, Japan.
Once known as UA Cinemas 8 when it expanded to eight screens in December 1985. Two additional screens were added on May 22, 1987, bringing a total to 10 screens, and was renamed UA Cinemas 10.
General Cinema began operating the Fashion Island Cinema on June 22, 1984, when the Boston-based chain bought several of Mann’s theaters for an “undisclosed amount of money”.
Although the Las Vegas Airdome would’ve been Las Vegas’s first airdome theater when it first opened on June 30, 1911, but this is not the first ever movie theater in Las Vegas. The first ever full-time movie theater to operate in Las Vegas is the short-lived Isis Theatre, launching two years earlier in 1909 and closing in 1911, though Las Vegas already had an entertainment venue beforehand called the Las Vegas Opera House which opened on February 12, 1908, and destroyed by a fire on May 26, 1912.
The Las Vegas Airdome was located in the heart of the downtown area on 310 Fremont Street, Las Vegas, NV 89101, and the El Portal Theatre was built at the site, which has its own CT page.
This originally housed 380 seats reclining 27½ degrees and a total of 16 speakers around the 69x108ft dome with a total surface of 9,600 square feet, launching on December 10, 1979, with “To Fly” in six-track stereophonic sound. The original projector measures 2,000 pounds with an 8,000-watt water-cooled Xenon lamp and can hold 15,000 feet of film. The entire dome auditorium’s huge screen covers 86% of a movie’s surface.
This opened in 1912 as the replacement of the Las Vegas Opera House nearby on 25 Fremont Street, which launched on February 12, 1908. William Squires was the last operator of the original opera house who left the long-forgotten Isis Theatre in 1911 following that theater’s closure. Squires operated the theater until the Las Vegas Opera House was destroyed by a fire on May 26, 1912.
Actual 2001 closing date is May 17, 2001. The reason for closure is because of financial trouble.
After its September 1979 closing as a first-run house, the theater did briefly reopen until July 1981 as the New Art Cinema screening art movies. The building was placed on sale on October 26, 1982, and was demolished in August 1983.
When “Blue Planet” opened up the Robert D. Linder Family OMNIMAX Theater on November 10, 1990, a total of 500 people packed the Museum Center at Union Terminal. According to Duszynski, he replied that the OMNIMAX literally did hosted the “World Premiere” of “Blue Planet” without notice, which was shown six days before their scheduled premiere showing at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington D.C. The 269-seat theater features cushioned Burgandy seats with headrests, and the entire five-story 260-degree screen measures 72-foot-wide.
According to the Cincinnati Post, the OMNIMAX was first announced five years earlier on November 13, 1985 as part of a massive upgrade and expansion to the Heritage Center at the terminal. This part of expansion has also been spoken of as a “permanent legacy” project to help observe Cincinnati’s Bicentennial in 1988, but the Bicentennial Commission has decided to focus more on fund-raising efforts on completing Sawyer Point Park for $14 million. And as mentioned, the theater never made it to open by the bicentennial year.
This all started on September 7, 1983, when two Vancouver architects proposed on an innovative science center just on time for Expo ‘86, including Arthur Erickson of his own architect company named after himself whose office refused to comment on the proposal. Literally nobody received a comment by the time the announcement made it to the Vancouver Sun, including British Columbia Place vice-president Paul Manning. The proposal includes an Omnimax theater measuring 350 feet high in order to afford an excellent viewing platform and a restaurant overlooking False Creek and the entire Expo area, including B.C. Place and over the stadium to the downtown silhouette, servicing by exterior glass elevators.
In March 1984, Telecom Canada released a photo of a sketch on a separate theater at the Expo, a 360-degree Circle-Vision cylinder-shaped building, and at the same time, Walt Disney Productions announced that they’ll be importing to make a film about Canada that will be presented just on time for Expo ‘86, marking one of their very last True-Life documentaries ever made by Disney. Though Circle 360 was already introduced at Expo ‘67 in Montreal, the technique there was also used for the O’ Canada presentation at the Canadian pavilion in Epcot. Disney staff replied that the film will likely be 17 minutes long and will be more than a travelogue. However, Expo officials considered building their own OMNIMAX that was first announced after the September 1983 proposal as part of its preview center at the east end of False Creek. According to Telecom Canada, they replied that the Circle-Vision will be at the opposite side of the Expo. The work on the OMNIMAX continued immediately following the announcement, with Cana Construction Limited being the main construction company.
On July 4, 1984, the Vancouver Sun announced that the Expo ‘86 Preview Center will open on May 2, 1985, including a small amount of information about the OMNIMAX, which the screen measures 35 feet high and 70 feet in diameter inside a globe that measures 40 meters. At the time, filmmakers were already in the middle of filming the wonders of the world. Alongside the OMNIMAX also contains a visitor interactive Future Choice and a Design 2000 Theatre, providing guests with a glimpse into the future. Cana not just constructed the OMNIMAX, but also the Expo Center, which was the first major construction contract to be let by Expo to Cana, including design fees ranged between $15 and $17 million. Expo had been letting contracts on site preparation since their first major contract in early February 1984 went to Fraser River Piledriving Limited for $785,000. Dillingham Construction Limited, Farmer Construction Limited, Brittain Steel Limited, and Marbell Pacific Enterprises Limited did help the pavilions.
In March 1985, first photos of the construction from inside the OMNIMAX were released by The Province, which in the article bills as a 500-seat OMNIMAX with an 88-foot screen in a 17-story dome building, which is a bigger upgrade than before. That same month, crews stocked up extra material, including a polyethylene sheet, just in case of any flooding or water staining the curved screen. Len Robinson of Cana replied that finding leaks is extremely different because of technique. Finally, the OMNIMAX opened its doors on the launch of the Expo, May 2, 1986, featuring the 20-minute film “A Freedom To Move”, showing the wonders of the world from above in all seven continents. Though this OMNIMAX lasted until its closure on October 13, 1986, Vancouver city council announced on January 27, 1987, that behind the Arts, Sciences, and Technology Center’s plan for a Science World in the domed Expo Center, they agreed to advance $40,000 from that year’s grant for design work and they hoped the proposed science center will not help kill the Vancouver planetarium which faces budget problems and aging equipment, which includes using the OMNIMAX as its site. They did, with an estimate nearly $10 million, which includes a 5,100-square-meter extension to the $20 million building, and will bring the total usable space up to 10,000.
A renovation was also taken place at the OMNIMAX, which downgraded the seats from the Expo ‘86 capacity of 500 seats to 400 seats, and an upgraded sound system, with 28 speakers and 12,000 watts of wrap-around sound. The OMNIMAX Theatre at Science World opened its doors on May 6, 1989 with “Beavers”, and was once named Alcan OMNIMAX Theatre from 1996 until 2007, before it was renamed back OMNIMAX Theatre at Science World.
The Cypress Drive-In is an EXTREMELY short-lived drive-in, and truly the shortest-lived drive-in in Tampa, launching on August 27, 1953 with Rosalind Russell in “Never Wave at a Wac” and Gregory Peck in “The World in His Arms” along with an unnamed cartoon and a newsreel, and closing on August 13, 1954 with Walt Disney’s doubleheader of “Rob Roy” and “Pecos Bill” along with an unnamed cartoon. It immediately became a trailer park afterward.
Closed on September 4, 1986 with “About Last Night”.
Last operated by United Artists, closed on August 31, 1986 with “Shanghai Surprise” and “Wildcats”.
This closed in 1984. Films were last advertised on March 11, 1984, though it was still listed on showtimes into as late as August 30, 1984. Otherwise, I cannot confirm the exact closing date.
Appears that this closed on February 3, 1985 with “Johnny Dangerously” in Screen 1 and “The Flamingo Kid” in Screen 2. I don’t see any advertisements afterward.
Closed in November 1986.
Closed on September 27, 1987 with “Predator” and “Revenge of the Nerds Part II”.
Throughout the late-1970s and early-1980s, the Turnpike ran X-rated movies. Normal mainstream movies returned to the Turnpike at the start of the 1984 season, but this appeared to not last long at all. The Turnpike appears that it was last advertised on the Knickerbocker on June 12, 1984 with “Police Academy” and “Footloose”, but it was unknown if that’s final closure.
Actual closing date as a movie theater is September 16, 1969 with “Number One” and “Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell”.
Closed after the 1979 season.
Closed as a movie theater on September 28, 1977 with “Greased Lightning” and “Pipe Dreams”.
The Poinciana Theatre opened its doors on February 4, 1911 by Charles T. Friend, housing 448 seats, and opened with the Biograph film “His Trust Fulfilled”.