Glen Theatre

I remember going to the Glen Theatre with my sisters and sometimes their friends. Saw many movies there’s a kid including The Jungle Book, Airport, Tales From the Crypt, Willy Wonka, Escape From the Planet of the Apes, Pufnstuf,House of Dark Shadows, Willard and Ben. I remember a big screen with two side ways and a small entrance and snack bar. Towards the later run of this theatre started to turn ghetto with the obnoxious kids from the Glendale projects. Too bad nice single screen theatres are a thing of the past here in the Phoenix area. Thank goodness for the Loft Theater in Tucson.

Boxoffice, Oct. 15, 1973: “Officials of Mountain Bell announced last month that the company had acquired a 21,000-square-foot parcel of land on the southwest corner of Glenn Drive and North 57th Drive, which includes the now-closed Glen Theatre. The movie house was closed in July because of what a spokesman for the Harry Nace Co. called "needed repairs” and “inadequate central air-conditioning.” … The Glen Theatre was completed June 30, 1949, opening to the public the next day with a world premiere of “The Doolins of Oklahoma” starring Randolph Scott … The theatre had lavish, flowered carpeting and special push-back chairs that allowed patrons to enter and leave their seats without causing distraction for others. It was managed from late 1949 to 1954 by the late Lawrence Eaglin."