Central Park Fox

6602 Blanco Road,
San Antonio, TX 78213

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rivest266
rivest266 on May 14, 2024 at 10:39 pm

Closed 1996.

Ripshin
Ripshin on May 12, 2022 at 12:15 am

6602 Blanco Road would be the proper address. It was on Rector and Blanco. Rector was absorbed into the big box center, once Central Park Mall was demolished.

MickSullivan
MickSullivan on January 28, 2020 at 2:42 pm

I worked there for Larry Elmer as his Assistant Manager. It was 1971 and I was just out of college. When we had a blockbuster it was very busy. Cabaret played there exclusively in 1972.

rivest266
rivest266 on January 14, 2020 at 11:21 pm

Reopened on December 20th, 1974 as a 3-plex with Rhoda Fleming attending. Grand opening ad posted

rivest266
rivest266 on January 13, 2020 at 10:00 pm

The Fox Twin theatre was opened by National General Cinemas on December 18th, 1969 with “Viva Max”. the other cinema opened the next week. Grand opening ad posted.

Joe Vogel
Joe Vogel on November 19, 2009 at 7:59 am

A May 12, 1969, Boxoffice item about the groundbreaking for the Central Park Fox said that the twin was designed by the Los Angeles architectural firm of Pearson, Wuesthoff & Skinner. Johnson & Dempsey of San Antonio were the local associate architects.

kencmcintyre
kencmcintyre on March 13, 2009 at 4:14 am

Rhonda Fleming was married to Ted Mann.

Joe Vogel
Joe Vogel on March 13, 2009 at 2:50 am

The January 13, 1975, issue of Boxoffice Magazine said that the former Fox Twin in San Antonio had reopened as a triplex on December 20, 1974. Actress Rhonda Fleming made a personal appearance at the opening. She had attended the opening of another Mann Theatre the previous day, at Lubbock.

Mann Theatres had plans to add three more screens to the Fox Central Park 3 at a future date, but it looks like they never got around to it.

kencmcintyre
kencmcintyre on March 12, 2009 at 11:35 pm

Here is an item from the San Antonio Express dated 12/18/69:

Larry Benson, previously manager of the Fox Theater in Amarillo, now is managing National General Corporation’s new 1,500-seat Fox Twin Central Park Theaters in San Antonio. Benson, 28, started his theater career as a marquee and posterboy in Benson years ago while attending high school and worked his way up to doorman and then assistant manager.

He continued working for Fox theaters when he attended the University of Montana and upon graduation, was promoted from assistant manager of the Fox Theater in Missoula, Montana to manager of the Kiva Theater in Durango, Colo., in 1967. He held the Durango post until his transfer to Amarillo last year.