Hi Matt, Metro Village opened in 1980 as new construction. The GCC theater was inside the mall (roughly where the Harkins is today) and had three screens. AMC was Metro Village (6 screens); GCC was Metro Center (3 screens); and Bill Blair had Metro Park which started as 2 screens and grew to 4 and then 8 screens. You’re right about how Fiesta Village was Metro Village’s twin. T&C 6 was where the original staff of Metro Village 6 did our training before the grand opening in 1980 when our big movies were Jazz Singer and Stir Crazy. Ahh, memories.
Right, this theater opened as a two-plex and then Bill Blair expanded it to a four-plex and finally an eight-plex. With each expansion you could see that the architecture got a little bit better. The original two theatres had the front few rows at an angle so that the people in those seats were leaning back and toward the screen. I think part of the rationale was to give you a better view but it also made it easier to clean the theater at night with a leaf blower, with everything going into the gulley.
Yes, and before it was China Gate that restaurant was Uncle John’s that was either open 24-hours or open very very late because I remember that we, the original crew of ushers and concessionists, would head over there after the midnight movies were over and order make-your-own sundaes!
Hi Matt, Metro Village opened in 1980 as new construction. The GCC theater was inside the mall (roughly where the Harkins is today) and had three screens. AMC was Metro Village (6 screens); GCC was Metro Center (3 screens); and Bill Blair had Metro Park which started as 2 screens and grew to 4 and then 8 screens. You’re right about how Fiesta Village was Metro Village’s twin. T&C 6 was where the original staff of Metro Village 6 did our training before the grand opening in 1980 when our big movies were Jazz Singer and Stir Crazy. Ahh, memories.
Right, this theater opened as a two-plex and then Bill Blair expanded it to a four-plex and finally an eight-plex. With each expansion you could see that the architecture got a little bit better. The original two theatres had the front few rows at an angle so that the people in those seats were leaning back and toward the screen. I think part of the rationale was to give you a better view but it also made it easier to clean the theater at night with a leaf blower, with everything going into the gulley.
Yes, and before it was China Gate that restaurant was Uncle John’s that was either open 24-hours or open very very late because I remember that we, the original crew of ushers and concessionists, would head over there after the midnight movies were over and order make-your-own sundaes!