Palace Theater
5 Wick Avenue,
Youngstown,
OH
44502
5 Wick Avenue,
Youngstown,
OH
44502
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Previously operated by: Keith-Albee, RKO, Robins Amusement Co.
Architects: Thomas White Lamb
Styles: Neo-Classical
Previous Names: Keith-Albee Palace Theater, B.F. Keith Palace Theater
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The Keith Albee Palace Theater was located at 5 Wick Avenue at Central Square in the heart of downtown Youngstown, Ohio. The theater opened on March 16, 1926. The opening act was Betty & Burt Wheeler, an outstanding dance and comedy team of the 1920’s plus Greta Garbo in “Torrent” on the screen.
In 1928, the theater converted to sound equipment and as vaudeville faded into the past, the Palace Theater still retained a steady billing of live entertainment including the Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey Bands, The Glen Miller Orchestra, Paul Whiteman, Horace Heidt, and others.
A Neo-Classical style building, the theater had many unique features including an underground tunnel linking it with The Tod Hotel across Central Square.
It was last operated by the Robins Amusement Co. who closed the theater on Sunday, November 29, 1964. The closing picture was Edward Judd in “First Men in the Moon” & Janette Scott in “Siege of the Saxons”. The lavish interior appointments were dismantled and sold at auction prior to demolition in summer of 1966.
The site still remains a parking lot 59 years after the Palace Theater closed it’s doors.
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Thanks for your post and bringing the organ back to the valley. Feel free to add some photos of the organ here.
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Thomas Lamb was the architect of the Youngstown Palace.
In the period between 1912 and 1918 there was another unrelated Palace Theater that was located at 11 East Federal Street that I will be posting and in order to prevent confusion between the two,I will be calling it “The First Palace”.
The mezzanine of the Palace was a $100,000 art gallery right up to the last day of the auction before the building was demolished.
Facebook link to a 1943 photo.
https://www.facebook.com/businessmediaarchives/photos/a.1666016470351470.1073741828.1665444937075290/1730242387262211/?type=3&theater
Facebook link with the Palace at the head end of the video.
https://www.facebook.com/businessmediaarchives/videos/1992114674408313/UzpfSTExOTA3NTM0NzE6MTAxNTY3MzY5NDU1Mjk0ODI/?comment_id=10156736844169482&reply_comment_id=10156736986789482¬if_id=1566845379062179¬if_t=group_comment
Also closed with “Siege Of The Saxons”.
Last operated by the Robins Amusement Company.
Once operated by Co-Operative Theatres of Ohio.