{"id":128,"date":"2008-07-09T16:30:20","date_gmt":"2008-07-09T21:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=128"},"modified":"2020-05-12T23:40:20","modified_gmt":"2020-05-13T03:40:20","slug":"dutch-square-theater-dutch-square-1990s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=128","title":{"rendered":"Dutch Square Theater, 511 Bush River Road: 1990s"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Too late to get a picture of this place I'm afraid. The original Dutch Square Theater was a twin-plex set against the far back corner of the Dutch Square parking lot. I believe it opened more or less at the same time the original Dutch Square mall did, and there was nothing particularly distinctive about it. It ran standard, first-run movies, and sold the standard theater food items at standard (high!) theater food prices. Since the place was on the other side of town from where I lived, it was not one of my regular movie spots, though I did see a number of shows there over the years.<\/p>\n

It does have the distinction of being the only theater I've ever walked out on a movie at. The year was 1987, and my sister and a friend of hers were going to see Light of Day<\/a> with Michael J. Fox and Joan Jett and asked if I wanted to tag along. Well, I knew nothing<\/i> about the film, but I was of course familiar with Michael J. Fox and his classic \"Marty\" films, and I enjoyed Joan Jett's music, and had heard she was quite the character in real life, so I was expecting some kind of rock-and-roll comedy. Um, no. What I got instead was the most depressing drama I had ever had the misfortune to view. After about half an hour, I muttered something like \"see y'all after the show\" to my sister and walked out. Seeing the sunshine again was like having a leaden weight lifted off of me, and I spent a happy hour and a half just bumming around Dutch Square.<\/p>\n

Not too long after that, Tapps closed, and Dutch Square's decline accelerated finally leading to re-development, complete with a new AMC 14 screen multiplex. Thus obsoleted, the original Dutch Square Theater was torn down, and now a Ruby Tuesday<\/i> operates in the same location. And all the Ruby Tuesday training videos I've seen played in their stores are better than \"Light of Day.<\/p>\n

UPDATE 13 September 2009<\/b>: Added theater ad from The State<\/i> 15 April 1973.<\/p>\n

UPDATE 12 May 2020<\/b> -- Adding full street address to the post title, also updating tags and adding map icon.<\/p>\n

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