Allen-Cooley Cinemas

Allen Street and Cooley Street,
Springfield, MA 01128

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dallasmovietheaters on June 1, 2024 at 7:48 pm

Retailer W.T. Grant’s Grants Plaza launched in the fourth quarter of 1971. The plaza was to receive a Jerry Lewis automated twin theatre. However, as the venue was being built, the Lewis chain and its parent company were in free fall financial collapse. C&F Theatres took on the project as the Allen-Cooley Cinema Twin located in Grant’s Plaza. It launched May 25, 1973 with “The Family" and a Disney double feature of “Charley and the Angel” and “Cinderella.”

In 1975, the situation didn’t improve when W.T. Grant went into free fall and it closed its Grant City Allen-Cooley store in December and the remainder of its stores within a year’s time. But the theatre soldiered on likely to an opt out point at its lease. The Allen-Cooley Cinema Twin bolted after showtimes on November 12, 1986 showing “Tough Guys” and splitting a screen with “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off” and “Karate Kid II.”