Lauderhill Theatre
1225 N.W. 40th Avenue,
Fort Lauderdale,
FL
33313
1225 N.W. 40th Avenue,
Fort Lauderdale,
FL
33313
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Previously operated by: General Cinema Corp., Loew's Inc.
Previous Names: Loew's Lauderhill Theatre
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Opened June 30, 1967. Loew’s was so proud of this newly opened theatre that they featured it in the company’s 1967 annual report.
The report includes an artist’s rendering of the theatre, captioned “Loew’s new Lauderhill Theatre in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., is an integral part of the colorful Lauderhill Shopping Mall and attracts patronage from all of Broward and northern Dade Counties in Florida”.
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The address was 1225 N.W. 40th Avenue
Thanks AlAlarez.
IIRC, Loew’s Lauderhill opened in 1967 with a long run of “The Dirty Dozen.” The theatre stood at the south end of Lauderhill Mall, bordered by a supermarket and a department store. The Loew’s 2 (later 16th Street Cinema), based in a smaller shopping center directly north of Lauderhill Mall, made its debut in 1971 with “The Last Picture Show.” Think GCC took over the Loew’s sites in 1973. By the time I finally visited for local exclusives of “Tommy” and “The Sunshine Boys,” it was an interchangeable GCC 1970s twin job. GCC ran it as a subrun dollar house after their newer Broward Mall fourplex opened, then turned it loose to local independent operators. Office space took over after closing.
<<< I’m pretty sure I saw ‘Star Wars’ there in 1977. I had seen it a couple of times in one or two different theaters in the area and I distinctly remember seeing it there. >>>
You did not see “Star Wars” in 1977 at Loew’s Lauderhill. The first-run engagements in Broward County were at…
Dania — Hi-Way Airport 9-Plex Drive-In
Fort Lauderdale — Sunrise I-II-III
Hollywood — Cine I & II
Lauderhill — Inverrary Triplex
Margate — Lake Shore 4-Plex Drive-In
Pompano Beach — Highway Drive-In
Perhaps you saw “Star Wars” here during a second-run or re-issue engagement.
This should be listed as the Lauderhill and not Loews Lauderhill as it was only a Loews theatre for five years before it was sold to GCC.
It was located in the city of Lauderhill, not Fort Lauderdale, and it was already a GCC house when they opened the 16th Street Lauderhill location nearby.
Al, it may have only been a year or little more, but Loews still managed the Lauderhill when the second screen opened. The one on 16th Street was originally named “Loews 2,” albeit briefly.
S Porridge, I checked The Miami News for April 1972 it appears that the second Lauderhill opened the same week as the transfer from Loews to GCC. I suspect it took a while to change all the signs but I don’t think there was ever a case where each company ran one of the sites. The 16th Street Lauderhill opened as the Lauderhill II.
I went to work there as an usher in 1968 and saw movies like “In Cold Blood”, “The President’s Analyst”, “In Like Flint”, and “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner”. Peter Greybill was the manager and I remember the department store near it being a Richard’s. At the time I went to work there Lauderhill mall was not quite complete, with some minor finishing work still being done in some areas.
I worked in the mall just across from the theater in a pet shop “Pet Corner” in 1978. Although I worked there for about a year I never went to the movie theater.
This opened on June 30th, 1967. Grand opening ad in the photo section.
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