AMC Westwood Town Center Cinema

Designed by architect James Thomas Martino.

I don’t have any inside information or anything, but I’d put this theater on my endangered species list. A gigantic “lifestyle” center known as Croker Park opened in neighboring Westlake in 2004 complete with a 20-screen theater. For that matter, the owners of Westgate Mall, which was almost next door to that theater, tore the mall down in 2006 and opened a big-box outdoor shopping plaza of their own this year. A lot of changes for a theater that was the 6-screen norm in 1988 but has quickly become “small.”

Opened in June 1988, the day after the Westgate Cinema City closed. All the movies that were the first to play here were the last at Westgate Mall.