It’s your favorite neighborhood Culture Celebrator again. I’m back with another awesome trip down memory lane. If you’re like me, a Generation Xer, you have to remember the movie theatre where you saw all of your favorite movies from 1989 to 2009…Showcase Cinemas. Did you go?
Showcase Cinemas was located at 7737 Waynetowne Blvd. in Huber Heights, Ohio. The exact opening date for the building was December 15th, 1989. Showcase boasted multiple theatres inside and a massive parking lot. It immediately became the place to be to watch movies for a large swath of the Miami Valley. It also was the number spot for Gen X to watch the latest blockbuster (later classic) flicks. I can vouch for this statement because I was one of those young people. Near every smash hit movie released from 1989 to 2005 I saw at Showcase, and so did most of my friends.
The Showcase party was over in 2010. That’s when Texas-based company Rave Motion Pictures bought the Huber Showcase Cinemas location. Two years later, Cinemark USA (also based in Texas) bought Rave, and now Cinemark Huber Heights 16 stands on Waynetowne Blvd.
I’ve recently been to Cinemark, and it’s an impressive movie house. But Showcase Cinemas has my memories and my heart. I’m sure you fellow (slightly) older folks feel the same way. Talk to me, did you go see your favorite films at Showcase? What were they? Let’s rap…and celebrate our culture.
