@Iceberg, that’s correct. There just wasn’t enough room to fit another screen. Hard to believe the poster display case outside is still hanging on the brick wall.
Saw many free movies at this place thanks to the back door. We lived in the adjacent neighborhood and walked here frequently from the opening year in 87. I recall there was a Pink Flamingo gift shop and David’s Cookie’s next door until it became a Chinese Restaurant. Some movies I saw included Adventures in Babysitting, Innerspace, Back to the Beach, Star Trek V Final Frontier, Indiana Jones III and Last Crusade, Home Alone, Home Alone 2, Wayne’s World, Wayne’s World 2, Uncle Buck, Hot Shots!, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Misery, Police Academy 6: City Under Seige, Freddy’s Dead: The Final Nightmare, Only The Lonely, Groundhog ParkDay, Arachnophobia, Son-In-Law, Jurassic
Park.
I recall seeing the following at this place: Tootsie, Karate Kid II, Romancing the Stone, The Fly, Masters of the Universe, Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure, Edward Scissorhands, Dick Tracy, Big, Octopussy, Never Say Never Again, Gremlins, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Splash, Crocodile Dundee, Jewel of the
Nile, and more I can’t recall.
I believe I saw a few Disney flicks at this place as a kid like Rescuers Down Under, Lady and the Tramp, and Herbie Goes Bananas or Rides Again. Seems odd that this place was a theater, looks kind of small. I believe today’s flat screen TV’s may be bigger than those screens. lol Also, they had a Chinese Restaurant next door called North China. I remember this because my mom was a waitress there and the friggin sign is still on the East side parking lot marquee after all these years. It closed like over 20 yrs ago. No joke!
My babysitter took me and her son to see the first Star Wars movie at this place. I was only like 4 yrs old but I still recall an arcade and watching the movie twice back to back during a late showing. Of course, I couldn’t stay awake through the 2nd showing. Not sure what she was thinking but guess she liked it too. Also, wasn’t there a Service Merchandise next door that connected into the mall and a Fred Montesi’s grocery on the opposite end? I always thought those were a lot of letters they put outside on the store front for both Southbrook Mall and Service Merch. lol
Well, the building has officially been demolished even as we speak. The only remnants of the place is on the South end which features the old Book Store, Baskin Robbins, and Little Caesars facing Ridgeway Bl.
I saw the 1980 Popeye movie starring Robin Williams at this theater when I was 6. I also saw Empire Strikes Back at Park, had to sit in my Dad’s lap near the back row because no seats were available at the night viewing we went to. We must’ve went opening night.
That place. Yes, I remember watching Star Trek:TMP in 1980. I had to wait til Blue Lagoon finished before it started. I guess they only had the 1 screen. Anyway, it was next door to a Seesel’s grocery store in a small strop mall. You had to walk down a corridor in the back to get there. It was kind of hidden. The photo lab listed at the address is probably inside the grocery store now called Schnucks(formerly a Seesel’s). The way it was remodeled you would never no that a movie theater even once existed there. But my memory of it still lives on!! Take that bulldozer and wrecking ball.
@Iceberg, that’s correct. There just wasn’t enough room to fit another screen. Hard to believe the poster display case outside is still hanging on the brick wall.
Saw many free movies at this place thanks to the back door. We lived in the adjacent neighborhood and walked here frequently from the opening year in 87. I recall there was a Pink Flamingo gift shop and David’s Cookie’s next door until it became a Chinese Restaurant. Some movies I saw included Adventures in Babysitting, Innerspace, Back to the Beach, Star Trek V Final Frontier, Indiana Jones III and Last Crusade, Home Alone, Home Alone 2, Wayne’s World, Wayne’s World 2, Uncle Buck, Hot Shots!, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Misery, Police Academy 6: City Under Seige, Freddy’s Dead: The Final Nightmare, Only The Lonely, Groundhog ParkDay, Arachnophobia, Son-In-Law, Jurassic Park.
I recall seeing the following at this place: Tootsie, Karate Kid II, Romancing the Stone, The Fly, Masters of the Universe, Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure, Edward Scissorhands, Dick Tracy, Big, Octopussy, Never Say Never Again, Gremlins, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Splash, Crocodile Dundee, Jewel of the Nile, and more I can’t recall.
I recall seeing the following here: Back to the Future, Return of the Jedi, DC Cab, Rocky III and IV, Ghostbusters.
I believe I saw a few Disney flicks at this place as a kid like Rescuers Down Under, Lady and the Tramp, and Herbie Goes Bananas or Rides Again. Seems odd that this place was a theater, looks kind of small. I believe today’s flat screen TV’s may be bigger than those screens. lol Also, they had a Chinese Restaurant next door called North China. I remember this because my mom was a waitress there and the friggin sign is still on the East side parking lot marquee after all these years. It closed like over 20 yrs ago. No joke!
My babysitter took me and her son to see the first Star Wars movie at this place. I was only like 4 yrs old but I still recall an arcade and watching the movie twice back to back during a late showing. Of course, I couldn’t stay awake through the 2nd showing. Not sure what she was thinking but guess she liked it too. Also, wasn’t there a Service Merchandise next door that connected into the mall and a Fred Montesi’s grocery on the opposite end? I always thought those were a lot of letters they put outside on the store front for both Southbrook Mall and Service Merch. lol
Well, the building has officially been demolished even as we speak. The only remnants of the place is on the South end which features the old Book Store, Baskin Robbins, and Little Caesars facing Ridgeway Bl.
Jerry Lawler had a burger joint called Slamburgers across the way in the parking lot back in the 70’s.
I saw the 1980 Popeye movie starring Robin Williams at this theater when I was 6. I also saw Empire Strikes Back at Park, had to sit in my Dad’s lap near the back row because no seats were available at the night viewing we went to. We must’ve went opening night.
That place. Yes, I remember watching Star Trek:TMP in 1980. I had to wait til Blue Lagoon finished before it started. I guess they only had the 1 screen. Anyway, it was next door to a Seesel’s grocery store in a small strop mall. You had to walk down a corridor in the back to get there. It was kind of hidden. The photo lab listed at the address is probably inside the grocery store now called Schnucks(formerly a Seesel’s). The way it was remodeled you would never no that a movie theater even once existed there. But my memory of it still lives on!! Take that bulldozer and wrecking ball.