Green Acres Cinema
4510 State Street,
Saginaw,
MI
48603
4510 State Street,
Saginaw,
MI
48603
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May 27th, 1970: The Green Acres Cinema opened with a single screen under the management of General Cinemas.
June 9th, 1978: It underwent renovations and reopened with two cinemas. However, a wall was placed down the middle of the theater without properly realigning the seats to face the screens correctly.
1984: Goodrich Quality took over the management.
September 1991: The theater closed.
November 19th, 1993: It reopened.
January 2nd, 1996: Unfortunately, it closed once again. Grand opening ads posted.
I bet this cinema was the place to be?
Was the cinema named after the television series, Green Acres?
Correction: the store became Lakeshore Rescue Mission in 2011.
Hancock Fabrics closed about 5 years ago. The space is still vacant because the strip mall’s owners kicked nearly everyone out in hopes of luring Wal-Mart.
Here is the final word on Green Acres Cinema: Goodrich Theaters ceased operations here in Sept, 1991. After sitting dormant for over two years, I renovated and reopened this theater on November 19, 1993. We ran sub-run until I lost the lease and was forced to close on January 2, 1996. The property was leased to “Linens And More” which had previously occupied a smaller space in the mall. They went belly up after a short time and “Hancock Fabrics” moved into its place and remains there today. I’m gratified by the occasional comment that Green Acres Cinema was, during my brief ownership, “the best theatre in Saginaw”.
When I left Michigan in 1977 it was still a single. General Cinema split it in 1978, and Goodrich took it over in 1984, at which time it flip-flopped between a first-run and bargain house, depending on the prevailing market conditions in the area.
Please update to show originally General Cinema and later Goodrich Quality Theatres as the operators.