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Topic: History of Cinemark
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Don Sneed
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Posts: 451
From: Texas City, TX, USA
Registered: Aug 2001
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posted 04-11-2003 01:35 AM
Cinemark theatres in Houston was not well known in the mid 1980's, I forgot the name of the theatre chain, in the early 80's a local company with about 5-7 theatres, they was going under due to they built these theatres too fast & too many with little money, with at that time the projection equipment was Cinema Film System, Raven sound systems, Cinecita projectors, although the equipment was new out of the box it was still junk !! Always off the screen & crappy mono sound that kept burning up the speakers, since people stop coming to the theatres they were going under, Cinemark with their new name brought these theatres in 1984 & started building like crazy in the 90's...Now I only know about the Houston area only, several of their theratres were name Hollywood, I know of at lease 4-theatres in Houston with the same name, then something happen & they started naming the theatres Cinemark, Leroy had a shares in a now defunk Dollar Cinemas in Houston & Las Vegas, sold his shares & started the mega-theatres...
The Hollywood theatre in Norman Oklahoma has nothing to do with Cinemark, it was own by a local company in Dallas that did the same thing, built too many too fast & went under & Wallace brought them out...Hollywood theatres was the name of the company in Dallas...
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