Allston Cinemas

214 Harvard Avenue,
Boston, MA 02134

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micohen
micohen on November 18, 2004 at 6:26 am

I lived near this theater in the late 80s – it could never draw an audience despite being near BU and thousands of students and 20-somethings. This led to all kinds of conspiracy theories – that the theater was being run as a tax write-off or as a place for the theater chain to bury films it was forced to show. Competition from the nearby (and far, far superior) Nickelodian and Coolidge Corner Cinemas didn’t help either.

Ron Newman
Ron Newman on November 18, 2004 at 5:59 am

If anyone knows when this theatre opened, who initially owned it, or what its original booking policy was, I’d like to hear from you.