Northway Theatre

There is nothing left of the Art Moderne style gem of a theatre but its facade. The Northway Theatre opened on September 16, 1937. Before closing it operated as an adult movie theatre and its final movie was “In Praise of Older Women”, screened on February 7, 1979.

Shortly after the theatre closed, the neighboring drugstore, named after the theatre, bought the old building and gutted it. Having no use for the auditorium, they tore it down in 1995 and put in a bigger parking lot. They left the theatre’s marquee, which lost the “Y” during a storm– it now reads “NORTHWA” to advertise the drugstore sales.

Nonetheless, the surviving pieces of the theatre are a good example of a Moderne neighborhood theatre.

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