Gary Vaynerchuk
January 2, 2023
April 7 1966 the theater in Parkwood opened showing a Jack Lemmon movie. The 777 seat arena was state of the art at the time. With a 15 x 34ft screen. With Alex Barclay the manager.
Alex Barclay manager of the Famous Players Parkwood Theatre in the Woodward’s complex expressed this vlew today.
More comfort and conventence are drawing the erowis, he commented.
Mr. Barclay sald the 770 -seat Parkwood would open April 7. From then it will hold regular showings on a twice-a-night basis except when speclal long features are being shown.
The new theatre will have a 15by-34-foot screen which is cinemascopic size, Seating will be spaclous with the 770 seats arranged in an area which, in the old days. might lave taken 900
The Parkwood Theatre opened at Parkwood Mall (now Parkwood Place) in Prince George on April 7, 1966. Famous Players ran the single-screen house, which seated 770.
The Parkwood Theatre closed in May 1991 and was demolished to make way for expansion of the mall. Famous Players later returned to the mall when it opened the Famous Players 6 there in 1997.