Gateway Cinema I & II
3684 College Street,
Beaumont,
TX
77701
3684 College Street,
Beaumont,
TX
77701
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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”.
In 2022, half of the building is the American Health Imaging. The other half was vacant.
Grand opening ad posted. https://www.genealogybank.com/nbshare/AC01110225224715029151606600251