Lancaster Theatre

10533 W. Jefferson Avenue,
River Rouge, MI 48218

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dallasmovietheaters
dallasmovietheaters on July 5, 2020 at 12:04 pm

Operator Donald R. Lancaster, Sr., ran this location for more than 30 years and was likely named after one of Detroit’s early female movie pioneers, Emma Lancaster.

Joe Vogel
Joe Vogel on November 2, 2014 at 10:23 pm

This item from The Film Daily of January 6, 1926, notes the recent opening of the Lancaster Theatre, the second house of that name on the site:

“Detroit — The new Lancaster, 10530 West Jefferson Ave., River Rouge, opened. It is on the site of the old Lancaster. Ted Williams will manage the house, which seats 1,650 and cost $275,000.”
Unless River Rouge flipped odd and even addresses from one side of its streets to the other at some point, the magazine got the theater’s address wrong. In 1930, a Milton’s Shoe Store was advertising its location as “10530 West Jefferson Avenue, opposite Lancaster Theatre.”