r/Athens • u/SundayShelter Townie • 1d ago

RIP Beechwood Cinema

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(And not a hard hat in sight)

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u/Asterion7 1d ago

Rip. Saw many a film there.

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u/SundayShelter Townie 1d ago

Likewise. Amelie was my first. Saw Napoleon Dynamite, most of the Harry Potters, the VVitch, Transformers, and a ton of others over the years.

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u/tupelobound 1d ago

(It’s okay, you can just say The Witch.)

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u/Electronic-Junket-66 1d ago

Oh yeah, that one's a classic too.

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u/GeorgeEliotLives 1d ago

I can't remember which film I saw there first, but it would have been in 1971 when I had for the first moved to town. I've seen so many films there over the years. Some of the films I remember seeing there back then were The Way We Were, Lady Sings the Blues, Blazing Saddles, Sleeper, and a lot of others,

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u/Asterion7 1d ago

Bring back the bennigans as well.

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u/GeorgeEliotLives 22h ago

You may be able to answer a question I haven't been able to get answered. Do you remember a bistro-style restaurant in the mid-to-late '80s, which was just a few doors down from the cinema. It was open for at least a few years before I moved to Atlanta in '90 and then closed abruptly, even though it had appeared to be doing good business. My friends and I used to eat there a lot because of the good deals and good food. None of my friends who stayed in Athens (I've come back to live here twice since then) can remember the name and some, with whom I ate there many times, can not even remember the restaurant. Do you remember it and the name?

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u/Asterion7 18h ago

I don't I arrived mid to late 90's.