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Posted by Alan Plester (Member # 852) on 04-18-2016, 06:45 AM:

Watched a programme sunday called Salvage Dawgs where the owners of the reclaim company take buildings apart to resell salvable pieces, and this time they were removing a complete cinema from Sieverville Louisiana, run by Reel cinemas, platters, simplex projectors sound racks, movie posters screen, and the seats, were all taken away, does anyone know of this old movie house?, I found it good to watch, but I must admit to having a lump in the throat

Posted by Martin McCaffery (Member # 37) on 04-18-2016, 07:53 AM:

Looks like it was in Tennessee, not Louisiana:
Cinematour

Posted by Alan Plester (Member # 852) on 04-18-2016, 09:29 AM:

Thankyou Martin, I stand corrected.

Posted by Leo Enticknap (Member # 534) on 04-18-2016, 12:28 PM:

quote: Alan Plester
...but I must admit to having a lump in the throat.

I always feel like that when one closes, too (must have been horrible to have been around in the 1960s and '70s, when thousands went).

The nearest first-run place to me will have to be closed and demolished if the plan to repoen the railroad between San Bernardino and Redlands actually gets the money it needs (looking more likely now than it did a year ago) and goes ahead, because it's right next to what will be the station and the land will be needed for sidings and a train maintenance facility. The cinema is a completely characterless and unremarkable 14-plex, built in the late '80s or early '90s at a guess, and you certainly couldn't make any case on architectural or historic landmark grounds for saving it.

But it's the only movie theater within a short drive of us, parking is free and easy, the staff very friendly and projection and sound reasonable. We probably go there two or three times a year (my wife, family, friends, etc. rarely come to see movies where I work, because it's a 70-mile commute away): enough that we'll miss it if it goes.

Posted by Tony Ratcliff (Member # 1196) on 04-27-2016, 08:38 AM:

That cinema, the Reel Cinemas, was in Sevierville, TN - aka Dolly Parton's hometown.