Fox Theatre

1340 Boston Road,
Springfield, MA 01119

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Fox Theatre

The Fox Theatre was located on Boston Road near Parker Street. Its modern style was comparable to the Loew’s Palace Theatre in West Springfield, minus the large glass facade. It was opened February 26, 1970 with Alfred Hitchcock’s “Topaz”. It closed sometime in the early-1980’s. It fortunately never experienced being chopped up into smaller auditoriums, which made it a pleasure to view movies on its large screen.

The building later was converted into a Paysaver store. After Paysaver closed it became a Salvation Army thrift store, and is currently a Dollar Dreams store.

Contributed by AlLarkin

Recent comments (view all 6 comments)

Roger Katz
Roger Katz on November 28, 2003 at 3:41 pm

It is now a Dollar Dreams.

michacavan
michacavan on June 14, 2004 at 8:38 pm

Dollar dreams is a great dollar store but nothing compared to the great HUGE screen theater it once was. I saw “1976” on a school field trip in 6th grade.

rsalters (Ron Salters)
rsalters (Ron Salters) on November 17, 2010 at 1:09 pm

There was apparently an earlier Fox Theatre somewhere in Springfield. The 1927 Film Daily Yearbook lists “Fox’s” with 1300 seats, open daily.

rsalters (Ron Salters)
rsalters (Ron Salters) on November 17, 2010 at 1:32 pm

OK, the older Fox Theatre in Springfield mentioned in the postings of Sept 28 2007 and just above is listed here in Cinema Treasurew as the Art Theatre, CT #3721.

rivest266
rivest266 on September 11, 2011 at 2:35 pm

This opened on February 26th, 1970. Ad with picture of the theatre uploaded here.

DICK3570
DICK3570 on February 9, 2017 at 8:15 am

I was a projectionist here for the whole 8 years it was open. They installed a Cinerama curtain track but only put in a smaller flat screen around 55' wide. Even the projection ports were almost 3' wide. They only put in Simplex 35mm machines and no stereo.

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