Showing posts with label movie theaters. Show all posts
Showing posts with label movie theaters. Show all posts

Saturday, December 27, 2025

Lakehills Cinema 4 (Austin, Texas)

Opening ad from 1978, this is different from the CinemaTreasures copy (higher resolution and higher contrast).

I'm dismantling "Other Roads in South Austin" to focus on South Lamar and US-290 West, so among those that are getting sliced include 2428 West Ben White Boulevard, the late Lakehills Cinema 4. It operated from 1978 to 1999 under a variety of owners and in 2005 became the new location of Strait Music Company in 2005, but in May 2023, Strait Music Company "South" relocated to 3201 Bee Caves Road Ste. 140. After this, the building was heavily tagged and demolished soon after.

Tuesday, September 24, 2024

Highland 10 (Austin, Texas)

Google Earth Street View 2019
Straight from Carbon-izer.com comes Galaxy Theatres Austin at 6700 Middle Fiskville Road. On the other side of the Burlington/former Wal-Mart is this movie theater, has been open since 1988 (except for a short period in 2000-2001). The 2005 picture of the theater at Cinematreasures is out of date; it's simply branded as "Galaxy Theatres" these days. (It's 2005 based on the movies showing.) If you visit the "Photos" page on Cinematreasures you can also see a picture of it at night in 2006 (sadly, it looks far less colorful today), where it was one of the relatively few theaters that showed Idiocracy.

For a long time I had believed it was just another movie theater I read about but never actually been to, a recent discovery of a ticket stub from Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace proved otherwise (and to think, that was in its original form). I still don't remember it, though.

There are also tenants built around the cinema with the same address, like Taj Palace (closed late 2021), which has been here since 1990 (though jumped spaces within the center).