Capri Theatre
2304 Center Point Road,
Center Point,
AL
35215
2304 Center Point Road,
Center Point,
AL
35215
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The Capri Theatre was opened on February 12, 1965 with James Garner in “36 Hours”. In the 1960’s, Saturday morning admission with 6 Pepsi bottle caps. Operated by Cobb Theatres, it was taken over by Bowie Theatres in 1973. It was twinned and reopened on February 12, 1973.
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This opened on February 12th, 1965. Grand opening ad posted.
Cobb Capri theatre opening 12 Feb 1965, Fri Birmingham Post-Herald (Birmingham, Alabama) Newspapers.com
Cobb theatres sold it to Bowie theatres in 1973 who reopens it as a twin cinema on February 12th, 1973. Another ad posted
The Center Point Shopping Center had opened in 1958. During an expansion plan in 1964, this unnamed project was announced by R.C. Cobb Theatres in September of 1964 to the plans of Hallmark & Haney Architects. The $650,000 project became the Capri and was a suburban luxury theater - a trend in cinema exhibition providing upgraded seating (here, rocking chair versions) and projection (here, Cinerama and closed circuit live television, purportedly) with free parking built away from existing and often-fading central business district theaters. Cobb soon announced a first-run drive-in project - the Airport - also to be built at $300,000.
The Capri closed on May 9, 1973 for a major renovation. It re-emerged May 18, 1973 as the “all new” Capri Twin Theatres 1 & 2 for Bowie Theatres. Bowie stops advertising all of its theaters following showtimes of January 29, 1978 of “Oh, God!” and “The Late, Great Planet Earth.”