AMC Galewood Crossings 14
5530 W. Homer Street,
Chicago,
IL
60639
5530 W. Homer Street,
Chicago,
IL
60639
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I posted the grand opening ad for this theatre here.
WOW! Talk a bout a flashback. I grew up in this neighborhood in the 60’s. In those days the area where the Showplace is was the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad switching yards and next to it was Central Soya a soy bean processing plant. Both places weren’t very pretty.
On Saturdays Mom and Dad would send us off on the bus to either the Rockne, Tiffen, or the Will Rogers so they could get a little time away from my sister & me.
P.S.: to the posting above mine about the stolen TREK bike, I say go now to the Craigslist Chicago website and you’ll actually find there someone wanting to return a stolen TREK HYBRID (search this, posted 9/28) bike to its rightful owner (in case this be yours) for $1.
I’m not sure the above post’s complaining the Galewood bike-rac’s too easily seen or too concealed. IMHO it is in plain view and that to me is the preferred way. But….
Nevertheless I too was a victim. My bike didn’t get stolen (cable locked)—my bike HELMET (not cable locked) disappeared there! It was in my bike basket while I was watching TROPIC OF THUNDER L-D weekend afternoon. Now who’d wanna steal somebody’s scuzzy used helmet anyway?
That there’s a bike carcass still there at the rac isn’t remarkable, it just means that was one lock the thieves couldn’t cut (and bikes can be just abandoned). You see bike carcasses at so many bike racs over town, the city eventually puts a warning sticker on it so owner can claim before they come and send the thing to its 2-wheeled grave.
Still a fan though, and the theatre appears to be doing better-and-better business.
Don’t ride your bike to this theater!
The bike rack can be seen fron the nearby (elevated) road, but the rack is out of the way, on the side of the theater and away from prying eyes, which means any bike locked up there is an open invitation to any bike thief riding by on Central.
I should have been warned by the remains of another bike lying there – just the frame, no tires or anything else (real classy, Galewood!) – but I didn’t have a problem the last few times I locked a bike there, so I naively assumed it’d be okay.
Well, they cut the thick (Kevlar!) cable and stole my bike (a nice Trek hybrid).
So, if you take your bike to Galewood, it’s like giving it to the professional bike thieves.
Thanks a lot, Galewood!
‘Security’ hassles me over carrying a plastic bag with a Chips Ahoy I bought at Wal-Mart, while thieves prowl their lot, and they oblige by putting all the bikes where no one will bother the hard-working thieves!
Not going there again.
‘A’ is how I’d rate this new inner-city multi. This place opened for the 4th of July weekend rather unexpectedly, in a location formerly a large railroad yard (the ‘Homer St’ of the address is somewhat imaginary). It’s really off-street, with plenty o' parking. You enter off of the (recently re-built) Central Ave overpass. Needs more landscaping, apparently still in progress.
Been there many times already; just can’t beat their weekend pre-noon discount admission for 1st runs. All screens are large (enough), sound excellent, seats and line-of-sight just fine.
If there be any negative, the picture focus is typical for automated installations. That is, close but not quite 100% accurate or uniform. There’s a little ambient light spilling onto the corners of the screens from exit signs—I think could easily be corrected w/ simple shrouds. Plus a few too many commercials lead-off a showtime (I’d prefer more trailers instead).
Saved the best for last: I lost my car keys in an auditorium, and would you believe they were found and kept at the customer service desk? I had them back in but 2 days. Kudos to Kerasotes, and lucky me I had a hunch where I might’ve lost them.
Humm, I go to the Kerasotes @ Golf Mill at times, and I never had a problem with the theater. It’s always clean, popcorn is pretty good, projection is up there with AMC River East etc… There was only one thing I encountered there: When I saw Casino Royale there, about three seconds were upside down. But when I went back, the problem was fixed. So maybe the quality is poor depending on the theater & manager.
I tried going here when they were offering free movies, but we couldn’t get in because there was a block long line wrapping around the parking lot. But I’ll come back again soon.
The seating capacity for each auditorium at Galewood Crossings is as follows: Auditorium #1, 220 seats, #2, 104, #3,155, #4, 299, #5, 176, #6, 113, #7, 220, #8, 104, #9, 155, #10, 299, #11, 176, #12, 113, #13, 297, and #14, 297. A grand total of 2,728 seats. Auditoriums 1 through 6 are to the right of the concession stand; 7 through 14 are to the left. For a megaplex, the lobby is quite small…wide, but not very deep. The auditoriums are nicely done and super comfortable. Because it just recently opened, it reminded me of the inside of a brand new car…it smells great!