The Ridge Cinema is pretty old. It was built sometime around the 60's I think, and closed it's doors on Thursday, September 5th, 2002, due to competition from larger theatres in town. It had gone from 4 theatres to 7 in the early 80's I believe, with a couple remodelings, but the theatre still couldn't keep up, so it was closed. "Signs" was the last movie I saw there. It was a Sunday afternoon as the ticket shows. The theater was pretty deserted, and here I was, by myself, watching a movie about alien invasion. Pretty creepy. The movie was pretty good. It was kind of reminiscent of those cheesy 50's alien invasion movies, but this was scarier. Some memories of the Ridge include seeing "Star Wars" for the first time in 1977, which seemed to stay there for close to a year. "Battlestar Galactica" was shown in groundbreaking Sensurround (lots of bass speakers all over the place). I remember when the fighters took off from the main ship in one scene, and this kid sitting beside me told his grandma he was going to be sick and they left. Ridge was host to many midnight movies as well. Before the video market kicked in, the Ridge was the place to be. Unfortunately, I was too young to see most of these, but I did manage to catch "Nightmare On Elm Street" with some intoxicated friends at a midnight showing.