I have been taking digital photos of the Southgate Cinemas as it is coming down. If anyone wants some photos emailed to them, just drop me a line at and I’ll be glad to email you some photos.
The Miles Drive-In property was sold by owner Richard Casterly and his partners to a brick making company from Ireland. That company never build the brick making facility, instead the property is for sale again. All the projection equipment has been removed. The screen tower is in terrible shape due to years of neglect.
General Cinema sold all the projection equipment shortly after the theatre closed. In 1990 the Randall Cinema ran “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” on all three screens. The lines circled through the mall all the way to the Sears store. It was a sight to see. And by the way, they only hand one print of the movie to run on the three screens!
Today as I drove past the old GCC Southgate Cinema, the wrecking ball was doing it’s dirty deeds. Cinema three is totally gone, the marquee and the front of the building is gone, and they had started to tear down theatres one and two begining at the back of the theatre. This was a great theatre in it’s day!
I have been taking digital photos of the Southgate Cinemas as it is coming down. If anyone wants some photos emailed to them, just drop me a line at and I’ll be glad to email you some photos.
The Mapletown Theatre opened on November 22, 1949 after the old Maple Heights Theatre closed across the street the day before.
FIY – The Garfield Mall Movies had Christie projectors, Christie lamps & Christie platters.
The Miles Drive-In property was sold by owner Richard Casterly and his partners to a brick making company from Ireland. That company never build the brick making facility, instead the property is for sale again. All the projection equipment has been removed. The screen tower is in terrible shape due to years of neglect.
General Cinema sold all the projection equipment shortly after the theatre closed. In 1990 the Randall Cinema ran “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” on all three screens. The lines circled through the mall all the way to the Sears store. It was a sight to see. And by the way, they only hand one print of the movie to run on the three screens!
Today as I drove past the old GCC Southgate Cinema, the wrecking ball was doing it’s dirty deeds. Cinema three is totally gone, the marquee and the front of the building is gone, and they had started to tear down theatres one and two begining at the back of the theatre. This was a great theatre in it’s day!