Northridge Cinema
957 E. Commercial Boulevard,
Fort Lauderdale,
FL
33334
957 E. Commercial Boulevard,
Fort Lauderdale,
FL
33334
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This opened as Old Time on February 6th, 1976 and reopened as Northridge on July 7th, 1978. Grand opening ad from 1978 in the photo section.
I lived in the area during the 80s, and I don’t remember this theater. When you say tiny, how tiny is tiny? I used to frequent the Northridge Raw Bar nightly, and I never saw this theater, maybe it was the beer and I missed it!
Harvey, thanks for that discovery! I remember many a time when every seat was filled in that tiny space. Shame that Old Tyme’s popularity didn’t last beyond two years, but it held on for most of a decade as the Northridge.
If anyone from CT sees this: the seat count was 189. Thanks.
July 1976 Miami News article on the Old Tyme here.
Old Tyme Movie has my enduring thanks for making quite a few classics available that had eluded South Florida TV at the time, particularly the MGM Marx Bros. features, Fred Astaire’s non-Ginger Rogers musicals, and what remains the strangest double bill ever: “Easter Parade” and “Freaks.” TV ultimately had the upper hand, but Old Tyme’s effort is fondly remembered here.
Northridge Shopping Center played a bit part in Jerry Lewis' 1980 feature “Hardly Working” — the parking lot melee sequence was filmed there (with some fleeing rabbits meeting their unfortunate demises in Commercial Blvd./Dixie Hwy. traffic).