Gateway Cinema I & II
3684 College Street,
Beaumont,
TX
77701
3684 College Street,
Beaumont,
TX
77701
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Previously operated by: General Cinema Corp., Hollywood Theaters
Functions: Medical Center
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Located in the Gateway Shopping Center. The Gateway Cinema I & II was opened on February 18, 1972 with George C. Scott in “The Hospital” & Paul Newman in “Pocket Money”. It was operated by General Cinema. It was taken over by Hollywood Theaters on October 6, 1994. It was closed in the early-2000’s and by 2010 it was in use as a sports bar. By 2017 it became a nightclub named Club Rumba. By 2023 that had closed and part of the buiding had beome a health centre, the other part was vacant.
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Grand opening ad posted. https://www.genealogybank.com/nbshare/AC01110225224715029151606600251
In 2022, half of the building is the American Health Imaging. The other half was vacant.
The suburban Gateway Shopping City was conceived of in 1955 to be built on the Traffic Circle by a Boston-based firm with White House Dry Goods having a store as the original anchor. It was the sister of Houston’s Gulfgate Plaza. 21 other stores signed on for the first wave of Gateway City including J.J. Newberry, Woolworth’s and Henke & Pilot. Gateway Shopping City launched theatre-less on September 19, 1957.
In the luxury suburban era of theatres, that would change. An expansion brought about Boston-based General Cinema building a $250,000 twin, 1,000 seat (auditorium one with 600 seats and #2 with 400 seats). William Riseman and Associates had the plans with ground breaking on June 29, 1971. Local associate architect Milton Bell supervised the project. It launched February 18, 1972 with George C. Scott in “The Hospital” & Paul Newman in “Pocket Money”.