Dimerina Theatre

Other Olneyville Square theatres were the Edisonia/Pastime/Gem, the Royal, and the Olympia.

The Dimerina was located behind the building in Olneyville Square that was/would become the R.I. HOSPITAL TRVST BANK…an etching still visible on the front although the bank building is now the Olneyville branch of the Providence Public Library. 7 Stokes Street, where the Dimerina was, is today a parking lot with an adjacent vacant lot. No building remains. Turn right a bit from Stokes Street onto Olneyville Square, cross the Square, and where Hardware in the Square today operates at 1911 Westminster Street was the original location of the Pastime. Go further up Westminster Street to the tall housing complex, and that is where the Conn’s Olympia used to be. Come back across the square to Grasso’s Gulf Service Station, and that is where the Royal used to be.