It’s a whole two blocks from the Village and Bruin, so I don’t see how its location could be bad if theirs is good. And isn’t the Federal Building parking lot on evenings and weekends?
The fourth photo is not any theatre in Boston. It is the Forrest Theatre in Philadelphia. (look carefully at the right edge of the “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf” advertisement in the enlarged photo)
The theatre reopened yesterday. A friend of mine went to the grand opening. The website is http://buzzardsbaytheater.com/ . At the moment it looks like they are using only one screen.
Cinemaro, that’s exactly what was done at the Somerville Theatre. They retained and restored the original theatre, then added four additional screens in other parts of the building formerly used for retail or office space.
Agreed. I lived in Akron as a kid and it was most definitely not a college town. Columbus, where I lived later, has somewhat more of a claim on that label, but the real college towns in Ohio are places like Gambier (Kenyon), Athens (Ohio U), and Oxford (Miami U).
Just in case anyone’s concerned, the steel skeleton at the left side of that photo is not construction on the Somerville Theatre/Hobbs Building. It is a new building being erected on the other side of Dover Street.
So is it now an independent, or part of a different chain? What does the theatre now call itself?
It’s a whole two blocks from the Village and Bruin, so I don’t see how its location could be bad if theirs is good. And isn’t the Federal Building parking lot on evenings and weekends?
So pretty soon we’ll need to change the name of this theatre here (at least to remove ‘Mann’). Will he still call it the National?
Was this a Mann theatre when it first opened?
How did they lose 800 seats? Did they replace smaller seats with larger ones, or move the rows further apart?
Please report these errors to the site’s archivists, so they can be fixed.
The fourth photo is not any theatre in Boston. It is the Forrest Theatre in Philadelphia. (look carefully at the right edge of the “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf” advertisement in the enlarged photo)
I can see how a marquee like that would upset the local citizens of this quiet suburb.
What kind of a film title is “BLUE LLOON” ?
Is that Photoshopped, or the actual sign on the theatre today?
Looks like we have a winner. I didn’t know strip shopping centers even existed in 1939.
If this is being demolished, what is going up in its place?
I’d say “set back from the street, in a strip of attached stores, with a parking lot between the street and the buildings”.
I don’t know exactly when the Hancock Village Theatre opened, but it may be before either of these. It was definitely a shopping center cinema.
Is it definitely being demolished and not just closed? if so, what will be built on this site?
I saw a poster about it this morning and was thinking of posting the same thing. Their web site is View link .
These are probably videos rather than films, but it still sounds like a worthy event.
The theatre reopened yesterday. A friend of mine went to the grand opening. The website is http://buzzardsbaytheater.com/ . At the moment it looks like they are using only one screen.
In what theatre was the organ formerly located?
This project seems to be taking forever. Wasn’t a radio station and a children’s theatre company supposed to have already moved in here, years ago?
Cinemaro, that’s exactly what was done at the Somerville Theatre. They retained and restored the original theatre, then added four additional screens in other parts of the building formerly used for retail or office space.
Agreed. I lived in Akron as a kid and it was most definitely not a college town. Columbus, where I lived later, has somewhat more of a claim on that label, but the real college towns in Ohio are places like Gambier (Kenyon), Athens (Ohio U), and Oxford (Miami U).
This is a duplicate listing. The theatre is already here:
/theaters/17092/
Just in case anyone’s concerned, the steel skeleton at the left side of that photo is not construction on the Somerville Theatre/Hobbs Building. It is a new building being erected on the other side of Dover Street.
Are you sure this was ever called the Century? Everything I’ve seen says it was the Center.
Where can I find this essay?
Is this a different theatre from Cinema Brookline ?