PS. I linked to this page from here: View link
This is a great site for pictures of historic Atlanta, and all of the various pictures of the theater that are linked in this thread are all on this same page. Check it out.
I actually saw The Living Daylights at the Columbia. The opening night was a pretty big deal, with people in their 20s like me anxious to see a new James Bond for the first time in 15 years. There was huge line going down the street to see the movie on opening night — almost like a premiere. This was around the time that I and my fellow 20-somethings were starting to make Buckhead into a destination spot, and we were also moving toward Midtown and The Highlands for amusement.
The Columbia had a really great screen. The only other regularly-running 70mm screen in the in-town was at Phipps Plaza. (Long story short, this was before wing with Parisian and the food court and the current theater was added to Phipps in the early-to-mid 90s. At that time, the mall terminated at probably about the point where the box office is now. There were two theaters downstairs and a 70mm screen upstairs.)
Anyway, the summer in which The Living Daylights was released was the summer of 1987. I remember because I also saw The Untouchables at The Columbia, and I saw them both with the same girl. Regrettably, I never saw either her, or the Columbia again after that summer. I’m not sure when The Columbia ceased regular operations, but I do know that when the Summer of 1989 came around I drove from Athens to see Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade and also Batman on a 70mm screen, and both times I went to Phipps.
PS. I linked to this page from here: View link
This is a great site for pictures of historic Atlanta, and all of the various pictures of the theater that are linked in this thread are all on this same page. Check it out.
I actually saw The Living Daylights at the Columbia. The opening night was a pretty big deal, with people in their 20s like me anxious to see a new James Bond for the first time in 15 years. There was huge line going down the street to see the movie on opening night — almost like a premiere. This was around the time that I and my fellow 20-somethings were starting to make Buckhead into a destination spot, and we were also moving toward Midtown and The Highlands for amusement.
The Columbia had a really great screen. The only other regularly-running 70mm screen in the in-town was at Phipps Plaza. (Long story short, this was before wing with Parisian and the food court and the current theater was added to Phipps in the early-to-mid 90s. At that time, the mall terminated at probably about the point where the box office is now. There were two theaters downstairs and a 70mm screen upstairs.)
Anyway, the summer in which The Living Daylights was released was the summer of 1987. I remember because I also saw The Untouchables at The Columbia, and I saw them both with the same girl. Regrettably, I never saw either her, or the Columbia again after that summer. I’m not sure when The Columbia ceased regular operations, but I do know that when the Summer of 1989 came around I drove from Athens to see Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade and also Batman on a 70mm screen, and both times I went to Phipps.