{"id":11599,"date":"2016-06-11T00:51:09","date_gmt":"2016-06-11T04:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=11599"},"modified":"2016-06-11T00:51:09","modified_gmt":"2016-06-11T04:51:09","slug":"frank-theatres-cine-bowl-grille-inlet-square-murrells-inlet-14-may-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=11599","title":{"rendered":"Frank Theatres Cine Bowl & Grille: Inlet Square Murrells Inlet: 14 May 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Murrels Inlet's hardluck mall Inlet Square<\/i> took another blow in May with the closing of Frank Theaters<\/i>.<\/p>\n

This is actually the second set of theaters in this spot. I don't think I did a closing on it, but for many years this site was a Regal Cinema<\/i>, and the setup kind of used to amuse me, since they often tore your ticket at the window and had no ticket taker inside. I'm sure many a teen just wandered in, and into a any showroom despite any lack of money or sufficent age for an \"R\" film.<\/p>\n

After Regal<\/i> closed, Frank Theaters<\/i> leased the spot and did an extensive remodel for their cinema\/restaurant\/bowling\/arcade conceptCine Bowl & Grille<\/i>. I don't think the airport type restaurant and bar was really credible in the area, but the bowling alley portion seemed to do a good business as did the movies from what I could tell. There was no \"attraction\" screen like an \"Imax\" or \"RPX\", but it was all digital, and had pretty comfortable seats. I'm trying to recall the last movie I saw here, which would have been around Easter, but I'm drawing a blank.<\/p>\n

At any rate, I was pretty surprised on my last trip around Memorial Day when I was googling movie times and nothing was coming up in Murrells Inlet: The Sun News<\/a> has the story. On reflection, however, should have seen it coming. Several years before, I had seen this story<\/a> about how the theater was way behind in lease payments to the mall. Since the place stayed open, I figured the two sides had worked something out. Apparently however, the theater was playing the same game as Borders Books<\/a>, the \"We're too important to you for you to kick us out\" ploy. Given the sorry state of Inlet Square<\/i>, you might almost expect that to work, but in the event, not.<\/p>\n

In the past, when we stayed on Pawleys, we had the options of movies in Georgetown (The Hub<\/i>), Litchfield (Tara<\/i>), and Surfside (Deerfield Cinema<\/i>), all south of Myrtle Beach. Now, the closest place is Market Commons<\/i>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Murrels Inlet's hardluck mall Inlet Square took another blow in May with the closing of Frank Theaters. This is actually the second set of theaters in this spot. I don't think I did a closing on it, but for many years this site was a Regal Cinema, and the setup kind of used to amuse […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1707],"tags":[13,15,668,1143,630,283,16,3,28,58],"class_list":["post-11599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-closing","tag-business","tag-entertainment","tag-grand-strand-2","tag-inlet-square","tag-movies","tag-murrells-inlet","tag-out-of-area","tag-restaurants","tag-theater","tag-us-17"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11599\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}