Bucks County Mall Colonial 2
Bustleton Pike and Street Road,
Feasterville,
PA
19053
Bustleton Pike and Street Road,
Feasterville,
PA
19053
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Opened by Posel Theatres as the Colonial Theatre on December 27, 1967 with Frank Sinatra in “Tony Rome”. It started life as a single-screener, and was renamed the Colonial Twin when it was twinned on June 16, 1976. It was renamed the AMC Bucks Mall Colonial 2 when AMC took it over in January 1980.
The AMC Bucks Mall Colonial 2 closed on January 21, 1988 with “Throw Mamma From The Train” in Screen 1 and “Three Men And A Baby” in Screen 2.
I was living in the area when the mall first opened. Grand opening was December 27th, 1967. It was — for the time — a modern and popular mall. The Colonial, when it first opened, was only a single screen Cinerama theater. This was years before the twining trend that took place in the ‘70’s. The original screen was something the likes of which wouldn’t bee seen again until IMAX would come along. I saw 2001: A Space Odyssey on that screen when it was first run — it was an experience.
The ALAN: The Bucks Mall Colonial Theatre/AMC Bucks Colonial Twin has been demolished when the Bucks County Mall itself was converted into Acme Sav-on.
Also, the original Planet Of The apes played here in 1968
Grand opening ad from December 27th, 1967 can be found in the photo section.
This weblog post at Malls of American has a December 2, 1970, newspaper ad for the Bucks County Mall. It was located at the southeast corner of Bustleton Pike and Street Road. The Colonial Theatre was listed among the forty-odd businesses then at the mall, but the ad doesn’t call it a twin. I suspect that it might have opened as a single-screen house whenever the mall opened, probably sometime in the 1960s.
The long string of comments on the post include a few that mention the Colonial Theatre. It was closed by the early 1990s, according to one anonymous comment which has this to say about it at that time:
Several comments say that the once-enclosed mall has been rebuilt (or “…turned inside out….” as one commenter puts it.)Current owners of the mall are Korman Commercial Properties, who have re-branded it as Bucks Crossing. From aerial views it looks like much of the original structure might still be there, but extensively altered to accommodate different sorts of tenants than the original mall had. The space the theater occupied might or might not still be there.
Where was the Bucks County Mall located and when did the Colonial open and close? Please share. Thanks!
This theatre was opened by Ramon Posel, owner of the Leo Mall Twin Theatre, Premiere Twin Theatre, Ritz 5 Theatre, Ritz 4 At The Bourse Theatre, and Ritz East Twin Theatre before selling this theatre, along with the leo and the premiere to AMC in early 1980.