Ohio Theatre

Here is a 2008 close-up view.

This is a recent view of the entrance. A few other Ohio Theater photos are also there.

Judging from the photos, the people responsible for the restoration have done an incredible job. This is a good example of what a “movie palace” should look like. Don’t forget to take your camera if you visit this theater.

Here are some interior photos of the Ohio Theater. Click each photo to expand it.

If that were true, it would be all over Dispatch.com, and I’ve seen nothing there. CAPA was started specifically in order to save the Ohio Theatre, way back in 1969. They would never, ever sell it.

Perhaps you are thinking of some other theatre with the same name, elsewhere in Ohio?

I understand that the glorious OHIO Theater in Columbus is up for sale anybody have any details on this?????

This is a © 1930 photo of the Loew’s United Artist Theater. Even though the location with the photo reads Los Angeles, it is this theater. Thanks to Ken Roe, William and Ziggy for identifying this photo.

Listed below are the films which played at Loew’s Ohio from March 1963 through January 1967. Research is from microfilms of Variety and The Columbus Dispatch. The date isted is the Wedensday of the film’s opening week.
Ohio
03/06/63 A Girl Named Tamiko
03/13/63 The Courtship of Eddie’s Father
03/20/63 To Kill a Mockingbird
05/01/63 Follow the Boys
05/08/63 My Six Loves/Watch Your Stern
05/15/63 Nine Hours to Rama/House of the Damned
05/22/63 Come Fly With Me/The Hook
05/29/63 It Happened at the World’s Fair/Rififi in Tokyo
06/05/63 Hud
06/12/63 Tammy and the Doctor/Dime With a Halo
06/19/63 The Stripper/Murder on Campus
06/26/63 The Nutty Professor/Fancy Pants
07/03/63 Bye Bye Birdie
07/24/63 Donovan’s Reef/Strategic Air Command
07/31/63 The Thrill of it All
08/14/63 Come Blow Your Horn
08/28/63 The Great Escape
09/11/63 Irma La Douce
10/02/63 The VIPs
10/23/63 The Caretakers/Court-Martial
10/30/63 A New Kind of Love
11/06/63 Wives and Lovers/Constantine and the Cross
11/13/63 Twilight of Honor
11/20/63 The Wheeler Dealers
12/11/63 DARK
12/18/63 Stolen Hours
12/25/63 Who’s Minding the Store?
01/01/64 The Prize
01/22/64 Who’s Been Sleeping in My Bed?
01/29/64 The Cardinal
02/12/64 Man’s Favorite Sport
02/26/64 Love With the Proper Stranger
03/11/64 Sunday in New York
03/18/64 Seven Days in May
04/08/64 Captain Newman, M. D.
04/22/64 Paris When it Sizzles
04/29/64 The Victors
05/06/64 Night Must Fall
05/13/64 The Molesters
05/20/64 The Pink Panther
06/03/64 Lady in a Cage
06/24/64 The Patsy
07/01/64 The Carpetbaggers
07/29/64 The Unsinkable Molly Brown
08/26/64 The Night of the Iguana
09/09/64 The New Interns
09/23/64 Woman of Straw
09/30/64 A House is Not a Home
10/07/64 Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow
10/14/64 The Young Lovers
10/21/64 Invitation to a Gunfighter
10/28/64 Fail-Safe
11/04/64 Where Love Has Gone
11/11/64 Quo Vadis
11/18/64 The Outrage
12/02/64 The Secret Invasion
12/09/64 Of Human Bondage
12/16/64 Hercules vs. the Giant Warriors/Samson vs. the Giant King
12/23/64 The Disorderly Orderly
12/30/64 Goldfinger
04/14/65 How to Murder Your Wife
05/05/65 The Americanization of Emily
05/19/65 Sylvia
05/26/65 The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders
06/09/65 Dr. No/From Russia, With Love
07/07/65 In Harm’s Way
07/14/65 The Train
07/28/65 What’s New, Pussycat?
09/01/65 Harlow
09/15/65 Help!
09/29/65 Billie/The Glory Guys
10/06/65 Never on Sunday/Topkapi
10/13/65 A Rage to Live
10/20/65 Ship of Fools
11/03/65 Bunny Lake is Missing
11/10/65 Return from the Ashes
11/17/65 Red Line 7000
11/24/65 King Rat
12/01/65 Master of Horror/Master of Terror
12/08/65 The Hallelujah Trail
12/15/65 Cat Ballou/The Collector
12/22/65 Thunderball
03/02/66 Lord Love a Duck
03/16/66 The Chase
03/23/66 The Group
04/20/66 The Silencers
05/11/66 Promise Her Anything
05/18/66 The Ugly Dachshund
06/01/66 Cast a Giant Shadow
06/15/66 The Ten Commandments
08/03/66 Nevada Smith
08/24/66 What Did You Do in the War, Daddy?
08/31/66 Walk, Don’t Run
09/14/66 Modesty Blaise
09/21/66 This Property is Condemned
09/28/66 Goldfinger/Dr. No
10/12/66 Fantastic Voyage
11/02/66 Alvarez Kelly
11/09/66 Way Way Out
11/16/66 The Professionals
12/21/66 Murderers Row
01/18/67 Return of the Seven
01/25/67 Kiss the Girls and Make Tham Die

Further film lists will be posted as research is completed.
Holiday films at the Ohio in subsequent years include:
1967 – The Ambushers
1968 – Candy

Is that ever a stark contrast!

If I am not mistaken there was at least one other entertainment building where that modern office building now stands.

In May of 2004, I had the pleasure to sing in a huge concert in this theater from the stage in a production called “Gospel Meets Symphony” which is a 200+ member gospel choir made up from several local churches who performed for 2 hours to the accompaniment of the Columbus Symphony Orchastra. Most tickets were $35 and the aditorium was entirely full. I can assure you that there is NO air conditioning on the stage.

ken mc: Interesting review of the Ohio on the above link. Thanks.

Here is another link:
http://tinyurl.com/ryk4z