TIFTON — Tift County no longer has an active movie theatre. The AMC Classic Tifton 6 by the Tifton Mall closed Sunday, Oct. 29.

Signs posted on the theatre’s windows list it as “permanently closed” and direct patrons to the AMC Classic 16 in Albany, owned by the same company.

An AMC representative confirmed the Tifton theatre’s closure in an email.

“AMC routinely reviews the theatres in our circuit, as well as opportunities outside of our circuit, and makes decisions based on what will best strengthen the Company going forward,” the representative said in the email.

Through various name changes, a theatre operated at that location for 30.5 years. Tifton Gazette archives give an opening date of Feb. 19, 1993 for the Cinema 6, as it was then known.

The mall theatre opened a bit over two years after the Towne Cinema closed in September 1989. The Towne, also located at the mall, has long been demolished.