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QuarterInchSocket t1_jcviowd wrote

Reply to comment by ChewML in I miss The Palace theater by iced-macchiato

>Back in the day, when your mom could drop you off and not worry you would be on the 10 o'clock news.

Yep. I'm old enough to remember when we did that at Petite 3 Theater (now Pep Boys) and Fremont Theaters (now Play It Again Sports) directly across the street from it on on E. Battlefield. We paid $1 per movie, and a friend and I would usually go see 2 of them back-to-back. I remember watching Naked Gun 33 1/3 and Backdraft in the same night at Petite.

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ChewML t1_jcvjuyt wrote

Lol, you are before my time for sure. I remember seeing the lion king at north town mall, and titanic at the battlefield mall food court.

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QuarterInchSocket t1_jcvl2t7 wrote

North Town, Town & Country, Tower Theater (now Alice 95.5 radio station in the Plaza Shopping Center)...

The Battlefield Mall used to have 2 theaters... there was the main Battlefield Mall theater in the food court, and then there was Century 21, which was on the Glenstone-facing side of the mall, where Ethan Allen is now. Both Century 21 and Tower Theater each only had 1 screen.

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Netzapper t1_jcwclkq wrote

Are you sure it only had one screen? I remember watching movies at the mall in the 90's a few times, and I swear the theater had like 3 screens? Could be a false memory though.

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Mechanicallvlan t1_jcwen0r wrote

I thought I remembered Century 21 having two screens, but I Googled it earlier and found stuff saying that it indeed had only one. Wehrenberg Cinema 6 in the food court had 6 screens. And as he mentioned, there were two other theaters near the mall that had three screens: Fremont 3 and Petite 3.

Of all these theaters, the one that I have the fewest memories of is Petite 3.

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Netzapper t1_jcwtc9k wrote

> Wehrenberg Cinema 6 in the food court had 6 screens

I think this is the one I'm remembering. Definitely near the food court.

I had no idea there were so many different theaters in the mall. What a different time.

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robzilla71173 t1_jcwl6ai wrote

I remember having to eat chikfila a few times because it was next to.the theater and we had to rush. Back before people went so nuts over it and it was just mediocre fast food.

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mcnew t1_jcwysdy wrote

My mom took me to my very first movie in a theater at the tower theater. We saw the 90’s “Casper the friendly ghost.”

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robzilla71173 t1_jcwkokn wrote

I can beat that. I saw most of the classic Bond movies at dollar movie marathons at the old Fox theater downtown. Was a treat to go to a play there this winter and see how it was fixed up. I saw empire strikes back at the Tower and once spent all night movie hopping at town and country on n. Kansas before it became the "star trek church" as we used to call it.

Back in the day there were 2 theaters just in the mall, wherenberg (wehrenberg...wehrenberg... ifkyk) and century 21. And then like you said, petite 3 and Fremont too. We had a ton of theaters

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nofretting t1_jcwq3rg wrote

The midnight movie at the Fox was awesome, wasn't it?

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