Inglewood Theater

I remember going to the Inglewood every Saturday on my bicycle. I was there when the Paris Peace Accords ending the United States involvement in Vietnam were signed in January 1973 because the theater manager stopped the movie for a moment of silence. I’ll never forget that day because of that. My brother was a theater manager for the company that owned the Inglewood so unless it was an “R” rating or special run I always got in free. I miss neighborhood theaters.

I never went to this theatre, but my grandparents lived in Madison and we used to drive past it when we were going into town. Long after it closed, I stopped by to take some photos and noticed the marquee box had the door open. All the letters were still laying on the shelves, covered in bird poo and dust. So the next day I came back with some trash bags and took most of what was in there. A lot of it was junk (and has since been thrown out), but I got some cool metal signs that say “coming” (like coming soon) and TechniColor. Still have them up in my house. I believe a RiteAid is now in that location. Sad that so many great theaters have bit the dust in Nashville.

My grandmother and I were the last patrons of the Inglewood Theatre in 1977. I remember it was cold and drizzling that day. The last movie to play at Inglewood Theatre playing was Poco (Little Lost Dog). I was 10 and was hooked on Benji and Herbie Love Bug movies, Poco was sort of a Benji rip off. When we walked in we noticed it was completely empty. The manager told us they were closing forever that day and this was the last movie. I will always remember walking out with the manager locking the door behind us thinking I was the last customer. I’ll always remember spending every weekend with my grandparents and going to that old theatre.

I believe after the theatre shutdown it became a Joywood Furniture store and then a junk store until they tore it down.

Thanks cudaviper,thats the same photo.

Thanks GM I would if I could, I just ran across this link while looking at photos of another theatre,and I do not remember which one.I also have some photos of other theatres to post but I do not have a scanner.I will have to get someone to scan them for me and post.If you check out photos of Tennessee Theatres you may run across this link and click on it and you may find it or others.Good luck.Enjoyed you posts on the other theatres you have commented on.

There is a photo of this theatre on Tennessee Cinemas link,showing the theatre just before opening in 1950.

I remember seeing Woodstock at the Inglewood, I was the only person in the whole audience til near the end. Many movies I remember there, ghost and mr. chicken too…ha. Ah, the cry room, I remember that and went in once just to see what it was like. Very strange indeed. Also I recall the owner of Joywood Salvage told me that the doors were solid brass, very classy. Sad it is gone like so many others. We had it made and didn’t realize it.

Drug store is shuttered, and the Inglewood Bowling Alley is still there tisloews, although shuttered and fenced. Will get the Loews article to you, I owe you, soon.

Boxoffice of May 6, 1950, said that the Inglewood Theatre had recently been opened by Crescent Amusement Company. Few details about the theater were given, other than that it had both a cry room and a party room, and that it would be the only suburban Nashville house to present daily matinees.

Adding to the above comment the Melrose and Bellemeade were built in the early 40,s the Inglewood about 10 years later.

Yes, I did understand the small drug store you mentioned, MarkE, that was attached to the Inglewood. I was just referring to the Eckerd that sits empty. I have been the guest organist at your childhood church, Ingleweood MC, many times as well, and am the current organist at a church just a mile further towards downtown. Enjoyed your recollections. ;–)

I too, MarkE, attended many a Saturday Matinee at the Inglewood in the 60s. If you’ve been past the site lately, you’ll know the Inglewood Bowling Alley is shuttered, and the Drug Store, which replaced the Inglewood Theatre, is also shuttered. Time marches on I guess?

Pinslasher, the Inglewood Theatre in Inglewood, a surburb of Nashville, TN, was on Gallatin Road, directely in front of the Inglewood Bowling Lanes, next to the Inglewood Methodist Church. The Bowling Lanes remain but are closed, fenced off, and boarded up.

The theatre had a drug store occupying the only other store front area in the front of the building. It was a free-standing theatre and had a great Party room upstairs with a large glass window which allowed auditorium viewing.

I think the Melrose and Belle Meade theatre favored one another more so than the Inglewood which had a futuristic outward appearance with a tall tower and the words INGLEWOOD vertically displayed.