Park Theatre
4618 14th Street NW,
Washington,
DC
20011
4618 14th Street NW,
Washington,
DC
20011
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Robert K. Headley’s book ‘Motion Picture Exhibition in Washington DC’ lists this as the Park Theatre. Opened on July 1, 1924 with 870 seats. It closed in 1929, unable to compete with the Tivoli Theatre which had opened the same year, a mile south down the road.
Special thanks to Ken Roe for his research on this theatre.
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Here is a January 2008 photo of the former Park Theatre.
The Park closed on January 28, 1962 with a double bill of “The Hustler” and “The Guns of Navarone”.
The Park opened on April 20, 1951 with “I’d Climb the Highest Mountain”.
@sconnell1
I’m working at the former Park now, which is being converted into a dance space. We’re trying to dig up anything we can on the theater’s history but are having a hard time- it seems it really was upstaged by the nearby Tivoli! I would love to hear anything you remember about the theatre!
The Washington Post had an article today (including photos) on the former Park Theatre’s return to the arts:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/theater_dance/i-could-immediately-imagine-people-dancing-and-leaping/2016/08/12/a1736994-5a5a-11e6-831d-0324760ca856_story.html