Baytown Premiere Cinema 11
1518 San Jacinto Mall,
Baytown,
TX
77521
1518 San Jacinto Mall,
Baytown,
TX
77521
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Here’s a history of the cinemas in the mall. •March 6, 1981: Opened as Cinema Six by Cinemark
•April 30, 1982: Cinema 10 opened with 4 more screens
•July 22, 1988: Cinema 10 became Plitt Four, showing discount movies
•August 18, 1989: Cinema 6 became Baytown 6
•July 28, 1996: Plitt Four became San Jacinto 4 and Baytown 6 became San Jacinto 6
•1999: Loews Cineplex took back San Jacinto 6, renamed it Cinema 6, and closed San Jacinto 4
•2000: Loews Cineplex closed Cinema 6
•July 6, 2001: Premiere Cinemas 11 opened with 11 stadium-seating cinemas
•June 2019: Premiere Cinemas 11 closed
Owners were Cinemark, Plitt, Cineplex Odeon, Cineco, Loews Cineplex Enterainment and Premiere cinemas.
Screens 7-10 (Billed as Cinema 10) opened by Cinemark on April 30th, 1982. Grand opening ad posted.
The Cinema Six opened on March 6th, 1981 (as a independent cinema). Grand opening ad posted.
The other theatre was not outside the mall. According to ads posted on the Goose Creek 6 page the Cinema 4 was next to Mervyns inside the mall. (Posting an image I found online from the Baytown library showing the layout at the time)
This was first operated by Cinemark in the early-1980s. Unlike most malls, the San Jacinto Mall originally had two theaters in separate locations of the mall. The main theater had six screens called the Cinema 6 and another theater outside the mall had four screens called Cinema 10 (with the “10” meaning that the whole mall had ten screens in total within two theaters apart). Plitt Theatres and Cineplex Odeon later operated both theaters alongside the nearby Goose Creek 6.
Scott you are correct. There was one screen added to make use of some space (if anyone remembers how odd house 11 was in the corner of the “L” for the auditorium hallways behind the concession stands, this is why) when the area was opened up. It’s also why some of the auditoriums you entered from the right side of the auditorium in the center, instead of the rear of the theatre.
House 11 was narrower at the rear, and wider at the front because it was nestled into the “L” of the hallways. Fan shaped. Moving prints into that part of the booth was a nightmare.
Based on old newspapers I strongly believe that this theater did not replace the two Cinemas at the mall but was in fact the same two theaters combined.
Also the San Jacinto mall and and wherever these were inside it, is now demolished.
This theater closed in June as part of the mall demolition, to be replaced with a new theater in the newly constructed shopping center: Baytown, TX: Premiere Cinemas – Baytown Premiere Cinema 11 Closes, New Theater Coming [Jul 1, 2019]
Was this theatre an entirely new build or did it make use of one of the existing cinemas?
This from Variety, November 7, 1956 about a Baytown theatre. Does anyone from Baytown remember what started it?
Massed Assault on Theatre!
“Some 500 teenagers, bent on revenge for a "raw deal”, ran amok here last Wednesday night (310, egg-and-feathering a theatre, barricading a city street and beating a policemen with a club.
The yelling gang – both boys and girls – commandeered a city dump truck, roused the town with a garbage can “tom-tom” dance, let air out of tires and damaged two city patrol cars.
The horde showed up at the Bay Theatre where the manager, H.E. Brunson, had frequently called police for aid against rowdy-ism, and threw dozens of eggs at the theatre front. Then the gang smeared feathers in the “omlet”."