Showboat Cinema 5

I managed this theater for 8 months from Nov 1987 to June ‘88, so it definitely opened before 1993. It was a very nice theater and was programmed primarily with “family friendly” films, while the R-rated product usually went to the Coeur d'Alene Cinemas. The Christmas I was there we played “Three Men and a Baby’ in the large auditorium, which sold out several times, even tho the population of Coeur d'Alene at the time was only around 25,000. It was originally a 3-screen independent, each with about 200 seats, built by the gentleman who owned the roller skating rink to the left and just behind the theater in the above picture. The two additional screens of 350 and 225 seats were added on the north end at some point to match Luxury Theaters Coeur d'Alene Cinemas a few miles away. When I managed it, Luxury Theaters had already bought the theater. They ran it for a few years, then it became part of the Act III chain when they bought Luxury. I was in Spokane at that point and had left by the time Regal took over Act III. It appears Regal operated it until they opened their new 14-plex, at which point the Showboat and Coeur d'Alene 5-plexes were both closed.