Plaza Cinema 1 & 2
348 Winchester Street,
Keene,
NH
03431
348 Winchester Street,
Keene,
NH
03431
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Previously operated by: Esquire Theatres of America
Previous Names: Plaza Cinema
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The Plaza Cinema opened as a 400-seat single screen theater on April 12, 1968 with Dustin Hoffman in “The Graduate”. A few months later a second 300-seat screen was added. It was located in the Riverside Plaza on Winchester St. in Keene.
I remember this as being the theater that I originally saw “Star Wars”, back in 1977. I don’t know much about it, but I believe it was owned by the same people that built Key Cinemas on Key Road across the street from Riverside Plaza. Not sure about that.
After Key Cinemas opened they ran X rated stuff for a little while than closed. A hardware store moved in there for a while then an auto repair shop then finally it became a video rental shop where we went to rent the movies that we had seen there originally. It has since been torn down.
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I saw Rocky Horror there for the first time. A Pizza Uno was built on the site after the building was torn down, now Aspen Dental.
They moved what locals called Keene Cinemas across Winchester Street down to a site off of Key Road just West of the Staples box store… Currently (2014)showing movies, saw The Wolf of Wall Street a few months back.
This started life as a single-screener for a time while Screen 2 was still under construction. Esquire Theatres of America opened the Plaza Cinema on April 12, 1968 with “The Graduate”, and was twinned several months later.
It has a total capacity of 700 seats, with 400 seats in Screen 1 and 300 seats in Screen 2. It was first managed by Stephen Hanson of Keene. Some original features of the theater include 9x20ft screens and gold fireproof fiberglass material.
Last operated by Cate Enterprises.