Wythe Cinema

50sSNIPES on December 4, 2025 at 7:36 pm

Taken over by Martin Theatres in October 1969 after the chain purchased all seven Gordon Theaters in the Newport News area, including the Wythe.

dallasmovietheaters on May 4, 2019 at 3:36 pm

1965 shot of the Wythe Theatre transforming to the Wythe Cinema in photos.

wsasser on August 31, 2012 at 8:17 pm

The Wythe Statement of Policy as noted in the Oct 4, 1939 ad

The Wythe is operated by the owners of the Palace Theatre….100% local. The same high-calibre pictures the Palace brought to the Peninsula will be shown here. First-run for the first time on the lower Peninsula. We bid you welcome. Leonard & Julian Gordon

Complete air conditioning – lots of Parking space – Ultra-Comfortable Seats

The Peninsula’s Smartest, Most Modern Theater

Ret. AKC (NAC) CCC Bob Jensen, Manteno, Illinois on May 12, 2012 at 6:47 am

PLEASE CHANGE NAME TO:

WYTHE CINEMA (THAT WAS ITS NAME BY 1967)

PREVIOUS NAME:

WYTHE THEATRE

PREVIOUSLY OPERATED BY:

GORDON ENTERPRISES

MARTIN THEATRES

Joe Vogel on April 26, 2012 at 6:55 pm

This house was a very early shopping center theater. Groceteria.com member carolinatraveler posted this entry on one of the site’s message boards with the following information:

“…the developers of Wythe Shopping Center…opened their center in, as best as I can determine, early 1938. It opened with the Wythe Pharmacy, Wythe Theater, a beauty shop, Fields 5 & 10, and several other small stores….”