Roxy Theater

521 Washington Avenue,
Bay City, MI 48708

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Trolleyguy
Trolleyguy on February 20, 2024 at 7:04 am

Website link is dead.

rivest266
rivest266 on February 20, 2024 at 6:42 am

Closed or stopped placing ads in 1930. It reopened as the Roxy theatre on February 15th, 1942. Another ad posted.

rivest266
rivest266 on February 20, 2024 at 5:23 am

Closed in 1923 and reopened as Temple on September 21st, 1924. Another ad posted. More to come for this theatre.

rivest266
rivest266 on February 19, 2024 at 3:59 pm

Closed or stopped placing ads in 1912 and reopened on March 27th, 1917. More ads posted. More to come for this theatre.

rivest266
rivest266 on February 19, 2024 at 3:25 pm

Reopened or placed its first ad as Lyric on September 3rd, 1911. Another ad posted.

rivest266
rivest266 on February 19, 2024 at 2:31 pm

opened on September 2nd, 1906, as Alvarado. Grand opening ad posted.

nsortzi
nsortzi on September 21, 2023 at 9:41 am

This theater has been demolished. The site is currently a parking lot.

graymatters
graymatters on July 18, 2022 at 5:57 pm

I just located and uploaded a 1940 image of the Roxy Theatre, taken by my grandfather Al Johnson, whose Johnson Construction Co. remodeled the theater. Previously we didn’t know which year Al Johnson completed the job, but based on the theater history and the 1939 film titles shown in the only other photo known to exist of the theater when it was called the Roxy, my educated guess is that the remodel was completed in 1939.

Although Al left behind no color Kodachrome slides of the theater, as he did for most of his jobs, this black and white photo provides additional documentation that this was the Roxy Theatre that my uncle listed as one of the Johnson projects. -Andy Gray

graymatters
graymatters on April 17, 2021 at 6:51 am

The Roxy was among the Michigan theaters that my grandfather Albert S. “Al” Johnson apparently remodeled. His son’s notes show a “Roxy Theatre job in Saginaw,” with no project date. I could find no record of a Saginaw theater with that name, so I suspect that Johnson Construction Co. instead remodeled this theater in Bay City which then opened in 1942 as the Roxy.

Unfortunately, my grandfather left behind no Kodachrome images of the Roxy among his theater project slide collection.

Joe Vogel
Joe Vogel on May 6, 2018 at 1:03 am

This house had still another aka, according to this item from the January 7, 1936, issue of The Film Daily:

“Bay City-Rialto Theater Co. has been incorporated as operating company for the Temple, Bay City, being renamed the Rialto upon acquisition by Associated Theaters.”

Del Fox
Del Fox on November 24, 2011 at 12:31 pm

When I was about 9yrs old I saw Roy Rogers and his horse Trigger live on the Roxy stage. I have a picture. will post when I can.

teecee
teecee on August 29, 2005 at 5:20 am

A Wurlitzer organ, opus 1771, was installed in the Temple Theatre on 10/27/1927. This data supports the name history as stated above.