

Notable theatres opened by Cobb included the Thunderbird Drive-In in Atlanta (the South's largest and most modern drive-in theatre) in 1963, the United States' first four-plex theatre in 1971, Cinema City 8 at Birmingham's Roebuck Shopping Center (the largest eight-plex theatre in the US) in 1978, and Sawgrass 18 (promoted as the largest theatre east of the Rocky Mountains) in 1991. Cobb bought Lucille's two theatres and started building indoor and drive-in theatres throughout northern Alabama. Lucille Richards Cobb purchased the theatre from Jefferson in 1934. Richards opened his family's first movie theatre in Fayette, Alabama.

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