Defunct Movie Theaters

[Frankie's Market]

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WONG'S OKAZUYA;
BYRON II;
FISHMONGER'S WIFE;

It's not just those Ala Moana restaurants that have closed. Almost all of the restaurants owned by Andrew Wong's family have shut down. (Andy's Drive In, Andrew's, Orson's, Coral Reef, Chinese Chuckwagon and Seafood Emporium.) The only ones that remain in business are Byron's Drive In near the airport and Chowder House at Ward Warehouse.

[helen]

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Really? There was a Leeds at AMC? Come to think of it I haven't needed a Leed's (dyed to match shoes and purse) since high school!

Yeah was in street level, ocean & ewa side of the shopping center. More or less where Sam Goody (or whatever it's called now) resides.

[tutusue]

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Also from the past:
[...]LEEDS;

Really? There was a Leeds at AMC? Come to think of it I haven't needed a Leed's (dyed to match shoes and purse) since high school!

FOLLOWING SEA (curio shop in the adjacent Ala Moana Building).

I know, I know, I'm really dating myself ...........

That was always my favorite store for gifts. Lotsa handmade pottery, blown glass, yada, yada. Some really gorgeous stuff. They eventually ended up in Kahala Mall. Not being much of a shopper, I believe TFS is gone now. Too bad.

[Frankie's Market]

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Before it closes...word on the Advertiser on todays paper....very soon due to lease xpiration....Keolu Cinemas--at the Keolu Shopping Center, is due to shut down soon.

Hmmm, and the Enchanted Lake Cinemas (literally next door to the Keolu Cinemas) closed a few years ago. Definitely part of a trend where the 2 or 4 screen theaters in midsize shopping centers are closing as movie fans flock to the larger, more modern megaplexes.

[oceanpacific]

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<sigh> Tell me about it. Coral Reef, India Imports, Penny's, Liberty House, House of Music, Singer, Honolulu Bookstore, Woolworths, Hopaco ....

Ala Moana used to be a nice place to visit and shop. Now, outside of a few places like Sears and Longs, it's all for the tourists and fashion folks. There's got to be more that I haven't mentioned.

Also from the past:

O'TAHEITE, which was originally COOK'S BAY - mall level, Diamond Head end, makai side near Liberty House, Shirokiya, Conrad Jewelers;
PALM BEACH SHOP;
PAUL'S JEWELERS;
CONRAD JEWELERS;
SECURITY DIAMOND;
MORROW'S NUT HOUSE - all outlets have disappeared, including Pearlridge and Kahala Mall;
HOTEI-YA;
JEAN-LU TOYS;
PRINCE KUHIO COFFEE SHOP;
VILLA ROMA;
CAROL AND MARY'S;
IIDA'S;
JOE PACIFIC;
WONG'S OKAZUYA;
BYRON II;
LYNN'S DELICATESSEN;
SATO CLOTHIERS;
STANDARD SHOES;
KRAMER'S;
KRAMER'S BIG AND TALL;
RITZ DEPARTMENT STORE;
THOM McAN;
LEEDS;
PLUSH PIPPIN;
FISHMONGER'S WIFE;
FOLLOWING SEA (curio shop in the adjacent Ala Moana Building).

I know, I know, I'm really dating myself ...........

[Kalihiboy]

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Holiday Theaters was owned at one time by Holiday Mart right?

The Theaters that were once at the Windward Shopping Center are now 24 Hour Fitness.

Aj

[helen]

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This begs the question when did the Wallace Theaters become the Hollywood Theaters?

[mel]

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This article in the Star Bulletin today confirms plans on the closure of the Keolu Theater and Aikahi in Kailua.

The Keolu Center Cinemas are set to shut down by the end of April, while the Aikahi Park Shopping Center is negotiating for a new tenant to take over the Aikahi Twin theater space.

The days of the dollar movies are numbered.

[hifotog]

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Before it closes...word on the Advertiser on todays paper....very soon due to lease xpiration....Keolu Cinemas--at the Keolu Shopping Center, is due to shut down soon.

[oceanpacific]

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OMG! I stay skaid just thinking about it. She wasn't holding a sharp object, was she?! I mean..not trying to get personal...sharp object like in the movie...oh, never mind...

I gotta admit that it was our first date ....... and it was her choice. But, we stayed in the front seat and didn't stick around for the second feature (I don't remember the title).

[scrivener]

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(I can't remember if it's Downtown/Uptown or Phase I or Phase II).

The Sears/Longs side is Phase II (now Downtown). The building the theaters were in, where there is now a clinic, was known as Phase III, but I wonder now if that has a name at all: I don't think it got re-named when Phases I and II became Uptown and Downtown. Almost nobody ever called it Phase III anyway.

[helen]

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I remember the Pearlridge West Theaters they are now a series of restaurants or military recruiting offices now I think.

The Pearlridge Theaters now as we know it was once Jewelcor during the 1970's.

The original 4-Plex Pearlridge Theaters that has been closed for some years has either some sort of medical facility or the military recruiting offices there, at least as of a year ago, but the 4-Plex was across the street from the Pearlridge Center where Longs Drugs and Sears are at (I can't remember if it's Downtown/Uptown or Phase I or Phase II). I know at least a couple of restaurants in that building were there already before the theater had shut down.

The Pearlridge West Theaters is in the center itself, the same set of buildings where Longs Drugs and Sears are in. It's a 16 Plex now but it wasn't like that at first and I can't remember how many theaters it originally had.

[MatildaRose]

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Actually, "Evelyn" was in the car WITH ME!

OMG! I stay skaid just thinking about it. She wasn't holding a sharp object, was she?! I mean..not trying to get personal...sharp object like in the movie...oh, never mind...

[oceanpacific]

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Ooooh, you saw Play Misty for Me at a drive-in. Betcha ya' had your car doors locked, yeah?

Actually, "Evelyn" was in the car WITH ME!

[MatildaRose]

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Memorable films I viewed at other theaters:
WAIALAE DRIVE-IN - PLAY MISTY FOR ME;

Ooooh, you saw Play Misty for Me at a drive-in. Betcha ya' had your car doors locked, yeah?