Hippodrome
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Photo from the Evening Bulletin, January 8, 1915. The Hip would open the following day…to a doomed existence.
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That’s actually from the Evening Tribune.
This is the forgotten Providence, RI theatre, the Hippodrome, which opened on January 9, 1915 on Fountain Street and would last not much more than a year. It had over 3,000 seats on one level and was a still a work-in-progress when it opened. Acquiring films to show was a real problem, especially after the opening in June of the new Strand Theatre a block over. This photo comes from the Evening Tribune of the previous day. After the theatre closed, it would become a garage. Later the Providence Journal Building would occupy that block.
It would close for good in two years.
This is the only photo of the Hippodrome in operation.