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balki14 commented about Walnut Hill Cinemas on Nov 5, 2009 at 12:35 pm

After Cinema 1-2-3 closed, Sears took over the space. When the new Sears was built, in 1988, it didn’t have space for scratch-and-dent appliances, which had been successful in the old store. They rented the former cinema and moved the appliances down there. After Sears left, it became Mark Stevens.

The interior of the theatre had a lobby that ran parallel to Diamond Hill Road across the full width of the building, with a big, flat wall on the golf course side through which there were three auditorium entrances. I believe that you had to go up some stairs to get to the entrance to the aud that was furthest from Brunswick (#1?). I think the restrooms were at the Brunswick end of the lobby, Not positive, but I remember red carpet in the lobby and red pleated curtain covering the wall that separated the lobby from the auds.

I remember seeing Red Dawn there, which I think was the first PG-13 movie I ever saw. Was it the first movie to get that rating?