AMC Orange Park 5

One year after the Orange Park Mall opened, the Orange Park Five Theaters opened on June 25, 1976 with “The Omen”, “Logan’s Run”, “Food of the Gods” and Walt Disney’s “Peter Pan” in two theaters. “The Outlaw Josey Wales” replaced “Peter Pan” in one of the theaters the second week the theater was open.

This was the first theater in the Jacksonville, Florida area with more than two screens. It also presented the smallest theater auditoriums that had ever been encountered by movie patrons in this area. Auditorium 5 had only about eighty-five seats! The screen was about the size of some you see in church and school auditoriums today. A huge mural of Marilyn Monroe caught your eye as you entered the lobby. The concession was set up to serve movie goers, as well as mall patrons who wanted a treat, but not a movie.

The theater was located at the mall entrance near the Morrison’s and Orphan Annie’s Restaurants. Due to the fact that the mall placed size limits on signs, you had to look hard to find the theater from the outside. Small black letters spelled out “Orange Park Five Theaters”. No movie posters were allowed on the outside of the building. In 1977, “Star Wars” played there for 32 weeks after playing for 27 weeks at the Kingsley Twin down the road!

The theatre closed on September 8, 1996 with “The Crow 2”, “The Trigger Effect”, “The Stupids”, “Tin Cup and Jack”. It was replace with the AMC Orange Park 24 which has it own page on Cinema Treasures.

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