Water Tower Place Cinemas
284 E. Garrison Boulevard,
Gastonia,
NC
28054
284 E. Garrison Boulevard,
Gastonia,
NC
28054
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The Water Tower Place Cinemas was opened April 20, 1987 as Gastonia’s only discount theatre under Charlotte based Multi-Cinema Corporation which operated discount theatres throughout North Carolina, South Carolina and Virginia. The Water Tower Place Cinemas opened as a four screen theatre with discount prices. Later during the mid-1980’s the Water Tower Place Cinemas expanded its operation from four screes to ten screens, making it the largest discount multiplex theatre in all of Gaston County.
It closed in 2003, and from a street view you can still the theatre building in the right rear of the Water Tower Plaza Shopping Center.
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http://www.cinematour.com/tour/us/5545.html
It’s a Paul Mitchell School for Hair.
I have found the original ad for the opening of this theatre and it did not open in 1985. I will revise this and posted onto the Cinema Treasures site.
At the time of its opening,it replaced the Village Twin Theatres which at the time Carmike turned it into a second-run discount house.
THE WATER TOWER PLACE CINEMAS opened to the public on April 20,1987 under Charlotte based Multi-Cinemas as Gastonia’s only second-run discount house. It was a four-screen theatre,and later on expanded to ten screens before closing in 2003.
I have the ads at
On August 28, 1991, the Water Tower Place Cinemas became statewide headlines after its manager shot an employee inside the theater. Its manager, 36-year-old Randy Lee Cross of Gastonia, was very angry and disappointed because the employee discharged a gun inside the theater on another occasion.
The theater wasn’t open at the time, but Cross pointed a .22-caliber semi-automatic pistol at the employee as the employee stood against the cement block wall. He shot the employee twice, one on each side, as well as a glass door of the office. Cross was arrested right afterward. According to authorities, Cross was also previous charged with an assault charge for spanking a 2-year-old child who lived with him.