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The Starlite Drive-In opened on June of 1954. No car capcity or owner was given for this single screen ozoner. It has since been demolished. Information for this drive-in obtained from…

The Croswell Opera House was opened in 1866. It was converted into a movie theatre from 1921 to 1967, and returned to live performances in 1968…

The Hilltop Drive-In opened in 1948. This single screen drive-in closed in 1955. The Hilltop Drive-In has been replaced by a go-cart race track…

William Jenkins opened the Sky Drive-In in May of 1949, it later became the Skyview Drive. Jim Palmer later owned the drive-in and it became the Jim-n-ees Drive-In. It closed in 1987 and…

The Lenawee Twin opened as the Lenawee Auto Theatre and was owned by Robert Tuttle, later Donald Swenk and then Associated Theatre. It later became the Lenawee Drive-In and then when the…

The Skyview Drive-In opened on May 27, 1949. The car capacity for the drive-in was listed at 500. In-car heaters were installed in 1959. The Skyview Drive-In was later renamed the Sky…

The Albion Drive-In opened in May of 1950. In the 1970's the Albion started showing adult movies. This movie policy continued right up to its closing in 1986. Car capacity is listed at 600…

It is well known that the Bohm Theatre is a major downtown, Albion landmark. Albion once had several theaters however, in the early 20th century, and one of them lasted until 1959. The…

The Bohm Theatre opened on Christmas Day, 1929. George Bohm's earlier theater of the same name opened elsewhere in Albion, in 1915. The New Bohm Theatre sat 1100 and was located on South…

The Censor Theater opened on August 14, 1915. This theater closed around 1930…

The Classic Theatre opened in 1914, seating 400, at the corner of Front and Fruit Streets. It initially hosted vaudeville, but later began showing silent films as well. Around the 30s, the…

The Seaway Drive-In opened in June of 1958. It had a capacity for 700 cars. The Seaway Drive-In closed in 1986 and has been demolished…

The Regent Theatre opened in 1919 in what was formerly a late-19th century horse livery. It originally not only showed movies, but presented vaudeville acts on its stage. In the 1930's…

Opened in 1940 as a single-screen, Art Moderne style house seating over 1,600, the Allen Park Theatre was designed by the firm of Bennett & Straight. Later, the Allen Park Theatre…

The Strand, located on Superior Street at Gratiot Avenue in downtown Alma, is now used for live entertainment. Further information on the Strand would be appreciated…

After it closed, it was used as a wildlife studio called Animal Arts and is now for lease…

The Alpena Drive-In opened in May of 1952. It had a capacity for 400 cars. The Alpena Drive-In closed around 1985 and has been demolished…

The Lyric Theatre dates back to at least the 1930s and was still operating in 1956…

This triplex opened in the early-1980's in a building that formerly served as a J.C. Penney department store. The formerly GKC-operated Royal Knight Cinema is now part of the Carmike chain…

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The Thunder Bay Drive-In was built in 1955. This single screen drive-in had a capacity for approximately 400 cars. The Thunder Bay Drive-In closed around 1988-89…

The Vth Forum, or Fifth Forum, opened as an art and foreign film house in 1966, by Roger and Kenneth Robinson, who also owned the Ypsi-Ann and Scio Drive-Ins. Its architect was Lester…

The Arcade Theater was a silent movie theater that opened in 1914. This theater was destroyed by a fire in 1928…

This theater, much like the mall in which it is located, has had its ups downs since it opened in the early 1970s and a number of operators. It once had seven screens; it is currently a…

Initially planned to be built on the site of the old Whitney Theatre, the Campus' site was eventually moved to what was felt to be a more centrally located spot on South University Avenue…

The Majestic Theater opened in 1909 in a building that had previously been a roller rink on Maynard Street. The 1,900-plus seat theater was a live theater venue originally, but later became…

This theater is a classic movie palace, opening on January 5, 1928 with seating for 1,841 and located near the University of Michigan. During a recent restoration, the 1,700 seat…

Built in 1913 for J.F. Wuerth, the Orpheum was operated by the Butterfield circuit beginning in 1923. Six years later, the theater closed, and was completely remodeled, including the…

Currently open and showing movies…

This early Ann Arbor movie house opened in 1915 on Huron Street. Its name comes from the first letters of its orignal three owners first names. The nearly 400-seat movie house closed just…

Opened in 1953, under Arthur and Roger Robinson, who also operated the Ypsi-Ann and Willow Drive-Ins, the Scio originally could accomodate about 400 cars, and had a single 65-foot screen…

The Star Theatre was the site of a student riot on March 16, 1908. The riot caused an estimated $2,500 in damages to the building. One story claims that the Star Theatre never opened again…

Opened in 1942, the State Theatre has had a tough time staying open over the years. It seems to have finally found its groove now as a twinned art house theater for the college community of…

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The Fox Village Theater was opened at the Maple Village Shopping Center in 1967, for Fox Eastern, which was a subsidiary of National General Corp. It was designed by Drew Eberson, and cost…

The Whitney Theatre opened in a building which was constructed in 1871, and also contained the Milner (later Earle) Hotel. Its designer was Herman Pipp. The theater could seat over 1500 in…

Opened in 1917 for J. Frederick Wuerth near his earlier Orpheum Theater, the Wuerth was leased to Butterfield Theaters just a few years later. By 1950, the theater began to be open on a…

The first Ann Arbor area drive-in theater, the Ypsi-Ann was so named because it was built in a then rural area between Ann Arbor and Ypsilanti. It opened in spring of 1948 (with…

This theater was opened in 1937 by H.A. Proulx…

Opened in 1998 as part of the Jack Loeks Star Cinemas chain, it became an AMC operation around 2003. It occupies a prominent portion of the huge Great Lakes Crossing Outlet mall…

The Blue Sky Drive-In opened in 1948, around the same time as two other area drive-ins, the Walled Lake (better known as the Walake) and the Pontiac. Initially operated by Northeast…

Opened in 1950, this theater closed in 1996. The box office and lighted "PARK" sign are still there…

This classic small town movie theatre in Bad Axe, Michigan opened on February 21, 1916 with 500 seats. It was built for the Knights of Columbus and served as their meeting hall, a venue…

The M-53 Drive-In opened in May of 1952. Car capacity listed at 400 with a single screen. Several owners, Ashmun Theatre, A-K Theatres and Kitchen Bros. No closing date listed for the…

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I came across a photo of the Sun Theater in Bangor, Michigan. The photo is dated as 1951. Another website lists the Sun Theater as being on Monroe Street. It also claims that this theater…

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The Bijou Theater opened in 1909. It was built on the site of the former Hamblin Opera House by Walter S. Butterfield. This theater was remodeled around 1940. The Bijou Theater was…

A family-owned eight-screen multiplex which carries second-run films. Originally, the theater was built with two screens in the 1970's…

I found a photo of the Garden Theater on a library site. (Click below for the photo) In the photo, there is an advertisement on the right side that has the name "Lew Dockstadter" and on the…

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The Post Theatre, located on McCamly Street South between Jackson Street and Michigan Avenue, originally opened in 1902 as a vaudeville house. The Post later turned to movies, and was still…

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The Kimball organ from the Strand Theatre was later removed to a high school in Philadelphia, PA…

West Columbia 7 is operated by Goodrich Quality Theaters, Inc. Seating varies from 276 in the largest auditorium, to 127 in the smallest auditorium…

The West Point Drive-In opened in June of 1955. It was originally part of Midwest Theatres, then Butterfield and finally operated by Mid-States until its closing. No closing date listed…

The Bay City Players Community Theater opened in 1916 as the Pictureland Theater. For a few years in the 1920's it was known as the Columbus Theater. Around 1935 it became the Tivoli…

The Cinema Art theater opened in 1916 as the Woodside Theater. Around 1950 the name was changed to the Royal Theater. The Royal Theater closed in 1969. In 1970 this theater re-opened as the…

The City Theater opened in 1920 as the Victory Theater. In 1942 the name was changed to the City Theater. This theater closed around 1947. Today the building is used as a restaurant called…

The Empire Theater opened in 1948. I don't know what year it ceased being a movie theater but the building is now used as a nightclub called the Empire Club…

The Lafayette Theater opened around 1926 and closed in 1955. This theater has been demolished…

The Regent Theater opened in 1920 and closed around 1957. An internet search shows Rubber Wonderland Inc., an "Artistic Rubber Stamps Company", is located here today…

The Roxy Theater opened in 1906 as the Alvarado Theater. In 1913 it briefly became the Lyric Theater. In 1914 the name was changed again to the Grotto Theater. In 1926 it was known as the…

Opened in June, 1950 and was originally owned by Ashmun Theatres opened as a single screen with a second later added. Later operated by Mid-States Theatres. Car capacity listed at 700 with…

Built as the Bijou Theatre in 1908, this former vaudeville palace added movies to its programming and by 1921 it had been renamed the Orpheum Theatre. In 1930, C. Howard Crane was hired…

The Tuscola Drive-In opened in July of 1948. Built by Harold G. Bernstein at a cost of $150,000. This single screen drive-in had a capacity for 800 cars. The Tuscola Drive-In closed around…

The Washington Theater opened in 1903. It was built on the same site as the Woods Opera House which burned down on August 29, 1902. In 1916 the Washington Theater was renamed the Washington…

The Wenonah Theater opened in 1909 and closed around 1935…

The Westown Theater opened around 1913 as the Crown Theater. In 1916 it became the Majestic Theater. In 1924 it was renamed the State Theater. In 1942 the name was changed to the Westown…

The Gem Theatre is located in the downtown section of Beaverton. A single screen seating 302. It has been in continuous operation since the 40's…

The Bellaire Theater dates back to at least 1950. The theater was damaged in a 1988 fire but opened again the same year. A second screen was added around 2003…

The Willow Drive-In opened around the early 50s, and was one of three drive-in theaters in the area owned by Arthur and Roger Robinson (along with the Scio and the Ypsi-Ann). It could…

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Earl Walters opened the Strand in September 1937…

The Liberty Theater opened in 1922. Around 1930 it was purchased by the Butterfield Theater chain. The Liberty Theater closed in October 1972. It was demolished in the 1990's after the…

The Starlite Drive-In opened in July of 1948. Capacity is listed on the site as 700 with a single screen. Mann Theatres operated the drive-in. It has since been demolished. Information…

The Art Moderne-style State Theatre, located on Main Street near Colfax Avenue opened in 1942 and was operated by the Butterfield chain until the 1960's. During the 1950's and 1960's…

Opened in 1940, the Art Moderne Berkley could seat 851 and screened first run features. Its sleek and curving facade featured a tall vertical marquee with the theater's name on each…

This originally single-screen movie house on Michigan Avenue at Elm Street in Big Rapids is today a four-screen cinema operated by the Carmike chain and showing first-run films. Any further…

The Big Rapids Drive-In opened somewhere around 1963, car capacity was listed at 300 with a single screen. The drive-in was last operated by Goodrich Quality Theatres. No closing date…

Designed by the famed architectural firm of Rapp & Rapp, the Birmingham opened in 1927. It was built for the Kunsky circuit, who opened two other nearby theaters that same year, the…

The Bloomfield Theatre was the third theater to be built in Birmingham. The Bloomfield Theatre was constructed on the east side of Woodward a short distance south of Brown Street. It…

Owned by Uptown Entertainment. Opened in 2001…

Again, my memories are brief on this place, but it was in downtown Birmingham during the 1970's. There was a big numeral "4" on the side of the building and I think they also showed some of…

The Bliss Theatre opened in 1939 on South Lane. It was the nicest movie theater that Blissfield ever had. However, it only stayed open on a regular basis until 1962. After that, it opened…

Opened as the Kingswood Theatre in 1970 as a single screen. Twinned sometime in 1977. Renamed the Kingswood Will-O-Way Theatre. Seating for the Twin was given at 500. The Kingswood…

This bland, undistinquished triplex was originally opened as the Maple 3 in 1974 by Suburban Detroit Theaters. It was acquired by AMC (the cupholders still have the AMC logo on them) in…

Originally operated by Elton & Marjorie Samuels it later became a part of the National Amusement chain. This ozoner boasted a 1,600 car capacity with a single screen. Opened in June of…

My parents owned this theater in the late 60's for a decade. I have such wonderful memories of the colors and smells of the theater. My sister and I had special seats in the beautiful…

The Brighton 9 Cinemas was built and opened in 1972. A combined total seating capacity of 1120. It was secheduled to be expanded to fourteen screens but it never happened. The theater…

Listed as owned by C.A. Anderson/Lakes Theatre Corp. and Mutual Theatres, opening in May of 1951, closing in September of 1989. Car capacity is listed at 700 with a single screen. It has…

Built in the late-1940's, all seating was on a single floor. It had a cry room, which was located on the right-hand side of the projection booth. The former Bronson Theater was…

A video and DVD rental store now operates in the former Coliseum Theatre…

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The Holiday Drive-In opened in April of 1956. This drive-in had a capacity for approximately 1200 cars. The Holiday Drive-In closed in 1986 and has been demolished…

Originally the Princess Theatre, it was renamed Hollywood Theatre in August 1933. Later operated by State Rep. Don R. Pears, it had a balcony where minorities were seated. The Hollywood…

The Burnside Drive-In opened in June of 1951. It was owned by N. Fishner. Capacity was listed at 300 cars with a single screen. No date give for closing. Information for this drive-in…

Opened in 1969, the same year the Eastland Mall opened, it was originally a single screen theater. National Amusements took it over in 1982 which twinned it. When the Eastland Mall was…

This large twin drive-in has a capacity for 1,000 cars for two screens. It still had some of the traditional speakers but primarily FM sound. It screened double fetures seasonally April…

Classic Showcase style. All parking in back…

The Cadillac Drive-In opened in 1950 with a capacity for 300 cars. The car capacity was increased to 500 in the 1970's. The Cadillac Drive-In closed around 1985. At the time of its closing…

One of the first municipal theaters in America, the Calumet opened on March 20, 1900, "the greatest social event ever known in Copperdom's metropolis". The theater contained a magnificent…

Here is another theater photo. This one is the former Crown Theater in Calumet, Michigan. All I found on this theater so far is, it closed and became a shoe store. Any further information…

Opened as Canton 6 in 1985. It had a renovation in 2004 to include stadium seating, a new screen and exterior and interior changes to better compete with the new 20 screen multiplex that is…

A small downtown house witha short life that opened in 1945. It closed in 1949 and was demolished in 1976. A Subway store in an Amoco Serice statin now occupies the spot where the theatre…

The Caro Drive-In opened on May 13, 1950 with a capacity for 500 cars. This drive-in closed in 1985…

This small but charming single-screen movie house shows first-run films. Originally opened in the 20s, the Strand has been remodeled over the years, most recently during the late 90s. It…

The Hi-Way Drive-In is the oldest of Michigan's remaining drive-in theatres. It had gotten to the point it was showing its years. In 1999, it was purchased by new owneers who have done a…

A nice little movie theatre from 1948…

The Blue Sky opened in August 1950. Capacity was about 350 cars…

The Cass is located in Cass City, on Main Street. This Art Moderne-style beauty features a terrific neon-lit triangular marquee and vertical sign, and shows first-run films in its…

The Gem Theatre in Cassopolis began as a courthouse before later being converted into a movie theater. The building was more than 125 years old when it was demolished in 1968…

The Kent Theatre began its life as the Hubbard Opera House in downtown Cedar Springs, Michigan. The building was constructed in the late 1880's and was the sight of various community…

The Eaton opened as a single screen, located in downtown Charlotte. It was closed for a short time in 1960 and was later twinned by Beechler Theatres. Built during the Art Deco era was…

The Maple City Drive-In opened in June of 1953 and closed around 1990. This single screen drive-in had a capacity for 500 cars…

The Hiawatha Drive-In opened on June 13, 1952. This drive-in had one screen and a capacity for 400 cars. The last owner was Charles Gazvoda who operated the drive-in from 1976 until its…

Listed as being owned by V. McKelski and later by A.J. & Charles Gazvoda the drive-in is listed as opening in June of 1952. Car capacity is listed at 400 with a single screen. Closed in…

The Cheboygan Drive-In went through a number of owners, John Wagner, Charles Leneschmidt, E. Wagner and finally R.J. Theatres before closing. The drive in opened in July of 1952 with car…

The former Gold Front Theater is now a bar…

A great old movie house in downtown Cheboygan. Updated and expanded with a great original main theater with Art Deco style design…

Built in 1930, the Ideal was likely one of the first constructed for the purpose of showing talking pictures. It's spectacular neon marquee is a wonderful sight along McEwan Street…

The Northland Drive-In was opened in August of 1950, owned at that time by Charles & Emery Brown, later by Warren Millard and then Neven Mathews. Finally was operated by Wispher &…

The Clinton Theater opened around 1930. This single screen theater is still in operation today…

The Clio Cinema opened in 1974 as a single screen theatre. By 2000 it had been expanded to 4 screens with the new name Clio Cinemas. The theatre is operated by NCG Theeatres showing first…

The Gem was a single screen theatre located in the business district of Clio. It closed in 1968 and the building is now used for retail. It is called the Clio Mini Mall. The marquee is…

This large ozoner opened in 1965 and has been operated by the same family since it opened. The twin screen 1,200-car drive-in features double bills March thru October. It closes on…

The Coldwater Drive-In opened around 1950. This single screen drive-in had a capacity for 200 cars. The Coldwater Drive-In closed in 1966…

The Main Theatre in Coldwater, Michigan closed in 1999. I could not determine its opening date, but the building always appeared to me to date perhaps to the late 1940's or early 1950's. It…

Opened on September 21, 1882 with a performance of "Maid of Arran". The architect was Mortimer L. Smith who designed the theatre in a French Empire style. It has a red brick facade and…

Opened in 1913, the Loma Theatre closed in 1959 and was used as a furniture store. It was refurbished and reopened in March 1964. It has now been divided into three screens and is…

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The Skyway Drive-In opened somewhere around 1951. This single screen ozoner had a car capacity listed at 500 with a single screen. The owner was listed as William Rice. No closing date…

The Maxine Theater opened in July of 1920. This theater closed around 1964-65. There is an auto parts store located there today…

The Crystal Theatre was opened in 1947. Single screen theatre open week ends (Friday, Saturday and Sunday) showing first run attractions. All seats are three dollars. They also present…

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The Alden was located on Ford Road at Kenilworth Street. The theater was closed during the 50s and demolished in the 60s…

Opened in 2000 as a part of the Jack Loeks chain, it was operated by Loews-Cineplex and then by AMC when Loew's was absorbed into AMC. Essentially, this megaplex replaced the former UA…

Built on the site of an earlier theater, the Strand, the Calvin opened in 1927. It also contained an organ. For many of its years in operation, it was part of the Wisper & Wetsman…

The Circle Theater opened in 1937. In 1963 it was remodeled and called the Camelot Theater. In 1988 the Camelot Theater was sold and the new owners tri-plexed it and named it the Camelot…

Opening shortly after the larger Dearborn Theatre, in early 1941, the Carmen Theater was another Art Moderne style movie house with an unusual gear-like dome over its lobby, rising three…

Opened in 1950, as a single-screener, with a colossal, late Streamline-style screen, the Ford-Wyoming could originally accomodate around 750 cars. It also once advertised a kiddie…

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Opened in 1941 as the Dearborn Theatre, this Charles N. Agree-designed movie house could originally seat 1,498, all on a single sloping floor. The Dearborn Theatre was a smaller version…

Built as a 900 seat, single-screen movie house in 1973 for the Nicholas George chain, the Westborn was twinned in 1980 by Louis Wiltse, with each auditorium seating 425. In 1986, the…

The Dearborn Drive-In opened in 1948 by Komer and Goldberg and had space for 1,040 cars. During its early years, the drive-in also boasted a mini-train ride for children. The Wisper &…

This theater, which opened as the Fairlane in 1969, closed in late 2004, and has recently been converted into a thrift store…

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The Academie Theater was a silent-era theater that opened in 1921 and closed in 1928…

The Frontenac Theatre opened in 1912, seating over 800 and located on Harper Avenue at Frontenac Street. The theatre was renamed the Ace Theatre in 1939 (around the time it got an Art…

Another of the silent picture theatres in Detroit that closed when talkies came about. The Acme Theatre opened in 1922 and closed in 1924…

Opened in 1917 inside the Fine Arts Building, the Adams Theater was designed, like so many other Detroit theaters, by C. Howard Crane for the Kunsky circuit. It was a vaudeville house for a…

Opened as the Harmony Theatre on December 12, 1921, this theater was completely remodeled in 1941 by C. Howard Crane in Art Moderne style. It not only received a new look, but a new name…

Opened in 1935, the Art Deco Alger Theater could seat 1,182 in its auditorium. It was originally built for the United Detroit circuit, but was not long afterwards acquired by the Wisper…

The Alhambra, which opened in 1915, was an early design by C. Howard Crane, for the affluent neighborhood of Boston-Edison. It could seat about 1475 and was originally operated by the…

Another of the long gone silent movie houses in Detroit. The Almo Theatre opened in 1914 and closed in 1917. It has long since been demolished…

Originally opened as the Ambassador in 1924, this neighborhood movie house was in a two-story brick building which also housed stores, a soda shop, offices and apartments. In 1945, it was…

The Amo Theater was a small theater located in Detroit. This theater opened in 1912 and closed in 1949…

The Annex, or Riviera Annex, as it was called when it first opened in 1927, was designed by John Eberson to accomodate overflow crowds at his Grand Riviera (later called just the Riviera)…

Most sources show this theater opening and closing in 1922…

Opened as the Clay in 1912, this nearly 400 seat theater was renamed the Apollo in 1934. It closed in in the early 50s…

This theater opened in 1950 on Cass Avenue at Myrtle Street. It only lasted until 1964. It was razed to make way for an extension of what is today Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard…

The Arcade Theatre, located on Hastings Street at Venor Street, opened in 1913 and was designed by B.C. Wetzell. The Arcade Theatre closed in 1949…

The Arthur opened in 1921, with seating for 340. It was located on Harper Avenue near Crane Street. The theater was later renamed the Crane, and still later the Rose before closing by the…

The Astor, which opened in 1923, closed in 1956, but was reopened sporadically into the 60s. During its last years, it was run by Detroit Consolidated Theatres. The theater has long ago…

Opened as the Dox in 1932, this theater sat just under 400. It was renamed the Studio in 1951, and was again renamed the Astro in the 60s. It closed in 1969…

The Atlas opened in 1939, built in Art Moderne style and designed by Robert J. West. It could seat around 950. It continued to screen first-run features into the early 70s before…

Although C. Howard Crane submitted early plans for the Avalon, it ended up being designed by the Chicago-based firm of Graven and Mayger, who only designed a couple of theaters in the…

The Avenue Theatre was primarily a burlesque house. It is listed in the 1935 Film Daily Yearbook so I assume that it was used as a movie theater at one time…

One of C. Howard Crane's earlier Detroit theater designs, the Ferry Field opened in 1916 and sat 1325. In 1934, it was renamed the Beacon, but only operated three more years before closing…

Four years after it opened in 1915, C. Howard Crane was hired to work his magic on this quite small theater (seating just under 400). It was located not far from the Granada, and despite…

The Bel-Air Drive-In eventually became a four screen ozoner with a capacity of 3,000 cars. No time line given for the transition. Listed as opening in August of 1950 and closing in 1986…

The Bell Theater was a silent movie theater that opened in 1909 and closed in 1921…

This 800-plus seat movie house, opened in 1923, was designed by Joseph P. Jogerst. It was located on Buchanan Street, near Grand Boulevard. It briefly closed during the 30s, but in 1941…

The Beverly opened in 1937, for Mamie Kogan and Robert Silberstein. It was designed in Streamline Moderne style by Charles N. Agree and could originally seat about 1475. The Beverly was…

The Cent Odeon opened in early 1906, as a nickelodeon, not long after the city's first nickelodeon, just down Monroe, Detroit's first theater row. Designed by the firm of Mildner and Eisen…

What is now known as the Bonstelle Theatre has had a long and varied life. It was first built in 1902, as Temple Beth-El, whose congregation moved from their previous long-time location…

The Booth Theater opened on June 20, 1914 as the Gladwin Park Theater. In 1923 it was renamed the Aladdin Theater and closed in 1924. Fourteen years later in 1938 it re-opened as the Booth…

The C. Howard Crane-designed Boulevard opened in 1913, on Gratiot Avenue near Warren Avenue. This 400-seat theater was relatively short-lived, closing in 1939. It has since been torn down…

Built at a cost of $400K the Broadway-Strand Theatre opened in 1913 with a huge fanfare. The theatre seated 1,600 and boated many amenities. The name was later changed to the Broadway…

The Brooklyn Theater was a small theater located in Detroit that opened in 1913 and closed in 1939…

The Catherine, designed by C. Howard Crane, opened in 1913. Its address was listed variously as 1540 or 1700 Chene Street. Three years later, in a very early example of twinning a theater…

Opened in 1932 as the Trans-Lux Theater, this branch of the popular newsreel circuit seated a little over 340. It was designed by Thomas W. Lamb -- his only work in the city of Detroit…

The LaSalle Garden opened in 1920, and as its name would imply, featured an auditorium decorated to resemble a walled garden, similar to C. Howard Crane's Garden, better known by its later…

The Chalmers opened in 1928, on Harper Avenue, with seating for 450. The theater was renamed the Chandler in 1934, and remained open until the late 40s. It has since been demolished…

This 400-seat theater was located on Michigan Avenue, and opened in 1922. It was designed by C. Howard Crane. It lasted into the 40s before closing…

Designed by Christian W. Brandt, the nearly 1900-seat Cinderella on the East Side of Detroit was one of the larger of the city's neighborhood houses. Built in Spanish Colonial style, the…

Opened in 1941, the Civic Detroit Theater was an Art Moderne style first-run house, which could seat around 1,455, all on a single floor. It was also known at various times as the Detroit…

This Detroit west side theatre opened in 1911 seating 400. With its inclined floors for good sight lines it had a small stage measuring 14x34. With the building covering a total ground…

The Colonial Theatre, which was, like so many other Detroit theaters, a work of C. Howard Crane, was opened on October 8, 1917, and originally could seat 1,566 in its auditorium. The…

Opened by John Kunsky in 1911 as his first true movie house in Detroit, after several earlier nickelodeons, including the nearby Bijou (opened as the Cent Odeon), the C. Howard Crane…

This 940-seat theater opened in 1929, located on Conant Street near Commor Street in Hamtramck. It lasted until the mid-50s before it was closed…

The Cooley Theater was a very short lived theater. It opened in 1932 and closed in 1935…

The Courtesy Theater opened in 1915 and closed in 1951…

A small neighborhood theater that opened in 1915 and closed in 1934…

The Crystal Theatre opened in 1938 with seating for over 560. The theater was located on Michigan Avenue near 31st Street. The Crystal Theatre operated until 1956…

The Dawn Theater opened in 1916 and closed in 1958…

This 1076-seat neighborhood movie house opened in 1916, an early design by Detroit-based theater architect Christian W. Brandt. During the early to mid 50s, the Delthe, also known as…

Located in the Indian Village neighborhood, the Deluxe was a decent-sized neighborhood house, seating almost 1500. Opened in 1918, it was designed by B. C. Wetzell, who designed a number of…

Part of the Detroit Institute of Arts, which opened in 1927, the 1150-seat Film Theatre, designed in elegant Renaissance style, has been screening classic, foreign and independent features…

The Capitol was considered Detroit's first official movie palace, and when it opened in 1922, it sat about 3500, the fifth largest ever built in the US at the time. Its architect, C…

The Orchestra Hall opened on October 23 1919, and designed by the prodigious architect C. Howard Crane, the Detroit Symphony Orchestra Hall took just a little over four months to complete…

This neighborhood house, which opened in 1926 and could seat just over 1200 is notable for the fact that future Fox Theatre owner (and film producer, Herman Cohen, best known for "I Was A…

The Dix Theater opened in 1914 as the Ila Theater. In 1917 it was renamed the D & G Theater. It remained the D & G Theater until 1925 when it was renamed the Dix Theater. This theater…

Opened as the Oriental Theater, this movie palace was the only Atmospheric style theater ever built in downtown Detroit, opening in late-1927. It had a Middle Eastern theme to its decor…

Opened in 1912 as the Circle, this 660-seat legitimate theater was a showplace for the city’s Jewish populace, originally located on Detroit’s East Side, and was eventually renamed the…

Opened in 1915 with two adjoining 750-seat auditoria, the Duplex was one of the country's first twin theaters and pre-dates the multiplex craze by nearly five decades. It closed in 1922…

The East End was located near the Cinderella and Esquire Theaters. It opened in 1926 and was designed by the firm of Periera & Periera. It lasted until the mid-1950's before closing…

The East Side was located on Gratiot just east of Chene. It was opened in 1910 by Sam Ackerman seating 782. It originally had a Wurlitzer pipe organ that is now in the Baldwin Theatre in…

The Eastown was one of Detroit's great neighborhood theaters. It opened originally in 1930 for the Wisper & Westman circuit. It was mainly a movie house, though it did have a small…

The short-lived Embassy on Woodward Avenue near John R Street operated from 1927 to 1930…

The Empress Theatre operated as a movie theatre by John Kunsky in around 1910. It was a burlesque theatre in the 1950's. It had a band shell and large velvet drapes that drapped the…

Opened in 1925, the Fenkell, on Fenkell Street near Dexter Avenue, could seat nearly 700. The theater operated until 1951…

Now one of the best theaters in Detroit for concerts, the former State Theatre (originally the Palms Theatre) still pays tribute to its glorious movie palace past by showing classic films…

When it opened, the Addison was a legitimate theater, which was designed by C. Howard Crane in 1913. It could seat 582 and opened in early 1914. Less than a year later, however, it changed…

Opened as the centrepiece of the Kunsky circuit on November 16, 1928 as a vaudeville and movie house. The Fisher Theatre is a unique Detroit example of a Mayan-style movie palace…

The Flamingo opened in 1925, seating nearly 1000, located on 7 Mile Road near Gratiot Avenue. It lasted until the early 50s. The former theater today houses a church…

Built within the former Kirkwood Hotel on Cadillac Square, the Family Theatre opened on May 3, 1909. It began to screen films five years later, starting with the comedy "Tillie's…

The Forest opened in 1914, and was designed by architect Fuller Claflin. The theater sat 600 and stood on Woodward Avenue at Forest Avenue, not far from Wayne State University. In 1935, the…

The Fox Theatre seats over 5,000 people and is Detroit's largest movie palace. In 1988, the Fox underwent an $8.1-million restoration. Since the restoration, the Fox has become one of the…

The Garden Theatre, one of C. Howard Crane's earliest neighborhood theaters in Detroit, opened in 1912, and could seat a little over 900. It was one of the largest theaters built outside…

Opened in 1928 as the Little Theatre, for a private womens group called the 20th Century Club, with a peformance of "Cyrano de Bergerac", the Gem Theatre had a full stage, orchestra pit…

Built as a vaudeville house in 1912 by the firm of Harley & Atchison seating around 650, the Globe was operated by United Amusements. By the time it was remodeled in 1915 by C. Howard…

Another moderately-sized neighborhood movie house, the Littman-Peoples opened in 1927, seating about 1100. It was designed by Maurice H. Finkel, better known for his Michigan Theatre in…

This good-sized neighborhood house opened in 1927, designed in Spanish Colonial style, and could seat just over 1750. The much smaller Beechwood was located just down Warren Avenue. The…

The Grand Circus opened in 1913 as the Central, later became the Grand Circus. It closed in 1924…

The over 1800-seat Grande opened in 1909, as a legitimate theater, and later served as a vaudeville house before it was remodeled in 1921 by the firm of Kohner & Seeler and switched to…

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Opened in 1927, the Great Lakes could seat over 1795, and was host to both live stage shows and movies in its first few years of operation, though it was operated as a movie house for the…

Opened as the Franklin in 1926, this very small theater (seating about 350) became known as the Guild in 1962, when it started showing foreign features. Later, it was renamed the Guild…

Opened in 1939, for the Wisper and Westman circuit, the Harper Theatre was designed by Charles N. Agree in Art Moderne style. The theater was complete with an 80-foot vertical sign…

When it opened in 1927, the Hollywood was Detroit's second-largest theater seating well over 3400 patrons. It was built for the Cohen Brothers at a cost of over $2 million and was situated…

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In 1946-47, I enjoyed many a Saturday matinee at the Idle Hour Theater located on the north side of Plymouth Road west of Greenfield…

Small neighborhood house that opened in 1914 as the D & G, later named the Dix and finally the Ila. it closed in 1956…

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Initially to have been designed by C. Howard Crane, who submitted an earlier design, the Iris Theatre ended up being done by the firm of Mildner & Eisen, in 1916, instead. The theater…

This theater, located in Detroit's Brightmoor neighborhood, once sat over 1000, and opened in 1927. It stood on Fenkell Street at the corner of Blackstone Street. The Irving was designed by…

Notable only due to the fact that it was one of only a couple of theaters designed by famed Detroit architect Albert Kahn (the National, downtown, is his best known theater in the city)…

Designed by William B. Stratton in 1914, the Jewel sat around 800, and was located on Gratiot Avenue. The Jewel lasted just a few years into the sound era of movies, closing in 1931. It has…

Opened in 1924 as the Amsterdam, this smallish movie house opened not far from the larger Tower Theatre, on Grand River, and could seat around 400. It was renamed the Keno in the late 40s…

The Kozloski Theater was a short lived nickelodeon opened in 1920 and closed in 1921…

A large, ornate, neighborhood theater, seating over 1,700, the Kramer Theater was designed by the prolific architect C. Howard Crane. It was opened in 1920. The theater remained in…

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The Lester Theater was a silent-era theater that opened in 1910 and closed around 1928…

The Liberty was a nickelodeon-turned-silent movie house in the Farmer Street theater row that opened around 1913, and lasted until 1926, closing around the time sound films were being…

The Lincoln Square Theatre, designed by Fred F. Swirsky opened with the anti-German feature "To Hell With the Kaiser" on September 2, 1918. In 1936, the "Square" portion of its name was…

The Linwood-LaSalle opened in 1920, with seating for 1400. It was designed by architect George V. Pottle, who also redesigned Detroit's East Side Theatre in 1925. The theater, later known…

Designed by H.D. Ilgenfritz and opened in 1928, this small 550-seat theater operated as a 24-hour house, and was popular with second-and-third shift workers. Its most notable feature was…

This theater opened in 1926 and closed in 1940…

The Ludowy Theater was a silent-era theater that opened in 1917 and closed around 1930…

The Grand Opera House was built in 1886…

When the Madison opened in 1917, its $500,000 cost was one of the heftiest yet for a theater in downtown Detroit. Built for the Kunsky circuit by C. Howard Crane in an elegant, understated…

The Majestic Theater was opened on April 1, 1915 as a legitimate playhouse with 1,651 seats. By the late-1920's had switched to films. It was designed by C. Howard Crane. An interesting…

The Mars Theatre opened in 1947 and closed in 1958. It now houses a liquor store…

The Maxine Theater opened in 1914 and closed in 1952…

The Medbury Theatre was possibly opened in the 1920's. Located at the corner of Hastings Street and Medbury Avenue, it was still operating in 1943, but had closed by 1950…

When the Mercury opened in 1941, it could seat over 2000 movie-goers. This Streamline-style theater was designed by Ted Rogvoy, who later designed the suburban State-Wayne and Terrace…

The Michigan Theater was built for the Kunsky circuit in 1926 by Chicago-based firm Rapp & Rapp, in their traditional French Renaissance style, and sat over 4,000 in its cavernous…

The Art Moderne style Midtown Theatre opened in 1941, and could seat 876. During the 1960's, the theater underwent a series of name changes, as well as formats, beginning in 1962, when it…

Was demolished in 1927…

This nickelodeon opened in 1906 and closed in 1916…

The Montclair became the Ideal in 1928, the President in 1939, and closed in 1948…

Opened in 1928 as a legitimate playhouse, the Wilson Theatre once sat over 2000. Designed by William Kapp in a stunning blend of Spanish Renaissance and Art Deco, the Wilson cost nearly $3…

Located at 17th Street and Myrtle Street (today renamed Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard), the Myrtle Theater was opened in 1913, and was enlarged in 1926. The Myrtle Theater closed in…

The National Theatre was opened in 1911 as a vaudeville house, and designed by Albert Kahn in a beautiful Art Nouveau style with Egyptian elements. The polychrome terra cotta facade is…

Also known as the Ritz, closed in 1926, now a hardware store…

Not to be confused with the somewhat larger and better-known Norwest on Grand River Avenue (opened the same year, 1936), the Nortown could seat around 1000, and was designed in Art Deco…

The Art Deco style Norwest Theatre opened in 1936, designed by Hector Payne, who also designed the Varsity Theatre the same year. The Norwest Theatre could seat 1,366, and was a first run…

The Norwood Theater designed by William S. Joy opened in 1915 and closed in 1949…

The Dreamland opened in 1911. In 1915 the name was changed to Northeastern. From 1917 to 1922 it was the Dreamland again. It was the Oakland from 1924 until it closed in 1928…

The Oakman Theatre opened in 1919, designed by C. Howard Crane and seating over 1,200. It was located on Woodrow Wilson Street near Leslie Street. The theater closed in 1937, but reopened…

The Oliver Theater opened in 1928 and it closed in 1949…

Just a few months after this 2,078-seat theater opened in late-1927 as the Orient Theatre, it changed its name to the Oriole Theatre, most likely due to the opening downtown of the…

Not to be confused with the larger Palace Theatre on Monroe Street, this smaller Palace Theater dates back to at least 1930. Still listed in the 1945 Film Daily Yearbook…

The Palace Theatre opened on February 16, 1914 as a vaudeville theatre. During its years of operation it screened silent movies as part of the programme. The Palace Theatre was closed in…

The Park was adjacent to the Grand Circus on Woodward Avenue. Years of operation were 1911 to 1916…

The Parkside Theater opened in 1940 and it closed in 1959…

Small neighborhood theatre on Mack Avenue at Pasadena Street that showed the old B movies, weekly serials and cartoons. Three employees: a ticket seller, a projectorist and one to operate…

The Bel-Air Theatre is located on the site of the former Bel-Air Drive-In in Detroit and is Detroit's only operating first run movie theatre. The theatre was closed by AMC Theatres in…

The Piccadilly opened in 1925, with seating for 825. It stood on Livernois Avenue, near Michigan Avenue. The theater lasted until 1951 and has since been torn down…

The Plaza Theatre opened in 1913 with seating listed at 750. The theatre was owned/operated by Co-Op Theatres of Michigan and later by Associated Theatres. The architectural firm for the…

A late C. Howard Crane design, the Rainbo opened in 1939, and sat just 260. It was situated across the street from the far larger Grand Riviera and not far from the Riviera's Annex. The…

The Ramona Theatre, which opened in 1929, was designed by the firm of Kohner & Payne, and closely resembled the Grand Riviera Theatre (or Riviera) which was designed by John Eberson…

This 1928 Detroit neighborhood house was built to resemble a Japanese outdoor garden theater. The theater was opened by the Kunsky chain on January 27, 1928, with a seating capacity of…

One of Detroit's larger neighborhood houses, early claims by its original owners that the Regent sat over 3600 seem a bit exaggerated. It most likely sat closer to half that amount…

The Rex Theater opened in 1910 and closed in 1958…

This C. Howard Crane-designed theater opened in 1917, and featured an early form of stadium-style seating, with a steeply sloping auditorium floor. Therefore, there was no need for a…

The Rio opened in 1935, built in an unusual mix of Art Deco and Spanish Colonial styles. It sat around 1400, and was designed by Cyril Edward Schley, a protegee of C. Howard Crane, whose…

The Riviera, or Grand Riviera, as it was first called when it was opened in 1925, was the only Detroit-area theater designed by John Eberson. It was built in an atmospheric/Italian…

The Rivola Theater opened in 1922 and it closed in 1957…

The Roosevelt Theatre was designed by Christian W. Brandt and H.D. Ilgenfritz as a sister to the Cinderella Theatre, which opened a year earlier (1924) and sat about a hundred more than the…

The Rosedale, located on Woodward Avenue near Rosedale Court, opened in 1915. It was designed by architect William B. Stratton, who had also designed the Jewel Theater on Gratiot Avenue a…

Growing up in Detroit in the early-1950's, the Roxy Theatre was one of three theatres on Woodward Avenue (along with the Colonial Theatre and the Fine Arts Theatre) all the kids in the…

The Royal Theatre opened in late-1940, one of Detroit's larger neighborhood houses, located on Seven Mile Road. It was designed by Charles N. Agree, and could seat close to 2,500. Built in…

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Another one of the multitude of Detroit-area theaters designed by C. Howard Crane, the Russell Theatre opened in 1917 for both vaudeville and motion pictures, and its auditorium could seat…

The Senate Theater opened in 1926 and its original architect was Christian W. Brandt, who designed a number of smaller Detroit houses like the Times Square Theater and LaSalle Garden…

The Seville Theater opened in 1911 as the Vendome Theater. In 1932 the Vendome closed. The building was vacant for almost three years. In 1935 it re-opened as the Sun Theater. The Sun…

The Sheridan opened in 1914 and could seat 475. The theater was located on Kerchaval Street at Sheridan Street. It was open until 1954. The former Sheridan has most recently housed a…

The Stanley opened in 1930, with seating for 600. It was located on Warren Avenue at Montrose Street. Operated sporadically through the 40s, the Stanley was later sold to a church, and…

The Star Theater opened in 1915 as the White Star Theater. In 1937 the name was changed to the Star Theater. This theater closed in 1949…

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The Strand was another work of C. Howard Crane, opening in 1915. The theater was originally part of the Kunsky circuit, and sat nearly 1400. In the 10s and 20s, several Hollywood stars…

The Stratford opened in 1916, designed by Joseph P. Jogerst, and could seat 1137. At some point during the 30s, it received an elegant Art Deco facelift, with a cream and salmon colored…

In 1927, the Cass opened as a legitimate theater designed by architect Herbert J. Krapp who designed a great number of New York City's Broadway theaters. In 1965, it was renamed the…

The Tedro Theater was a small neighborhood theater which opened in 1922 and had a short life, closing later that year. It was converted to a church in the 1950's. The building is now…

The Telenews opened in 1942 as a newsreel theater and could seat a little under 500. It was designed by Cyril E. Schley, who was a partner of C. Howard Crane, who designed most of the major…

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Opened as the Star in 1907, this nickelodeon-turned-movie house was renamed the Theatre Royale after about a year. It was neighbors with the smaller Liberty Theatre, which, like the Theatre…

Located at East Jefferson and Drexel Avenues…

Designed by Christian W. Brandt in 1929, the Times Square Theater, near downtown Detroit, sat around 1,000. It was closed in 1958 and has since been razed…

This mid-sized Art Deco-style neighborhood movie house could seat over 1,440. It was designed by Arthur K. Hyde, his only Detroit-area commission, and opened in 1935. The Tower Theatre…

This 1800 seat theater was designed by Maurice Finkel, who also designed the Michigan in Ann Arbor and the Goldcoast in Detroit, and opened in 1921. The Tuxedo closed in 1958, and was…

The United Artists Theater in Detroit was the third U.A. Theatre designed by C. Howard Crane. It was built in 1928, after the Los Angeles and Chicago United Artist Theatre's. All three…

The Uptown Theater designed by Kohner & Payne opened in 1926 as the Mack Uptown Theater. Around 1959 it was sold and renamed the Uptown Theater which closed in 1963…

The Van Dyke Theater opened in 1940 and closed in 1955…

Opened as the Carlton Theatre in 1932, this Art Deco-style theater could seat around 1,000. It was renamed the Surf Theatre in 1955, and a decade later reopened as the Variety Theatre. By…

Designed by Hector Payne in 1936 (the same year his Norwest opened on Grand River Avenue) in Art Deco style, the Varsity sat just under 1500. It was originally operated by the United…

Operating prior to 1941 as the Grand Victory Theater. The Victory Theater was a small, neighborhood movie theater in northwest Detroit. In 1951 when I was thirteen, I went alone there…

The Virginia Theatre was opened in the late-1930's. It was still listed in 1950…

Opened in 1937, this neighborhood theater was designed by the firm of Periera & Periera and sat around 1460. It was located on Harper, not far from the similar-looking Harper Theater…

The Warfield, located on Hastings Street, originally opened in 1914 with seating for 376. The theater was remodeled in Art Moderne style in the 30s or 40s. It closed in 1949, but reopened…

This was your basic neighborhood theater where you could spent your Sunday afternoon watching movies for under a dollar. There was a clock in the ticket window showing what time the movie…

The Washington Theatre opened on July 21, 1913. It was renamed Fox-Washington Theatre in 1919 and closed in 1928…

The Watson Theater opened in 1912 and it closed in 1923…

The Westown opened in 1936, designed in a French-Moderne hybrid by Detroit-based Charles N. Agree, and featured an unusually extravagant marquee for a neighborhood house. The theater…

The Whittier Theater in Detroit opened in 1916 as the Knickerbocker Theater. In 1932 the name was changed to the Whittier Theater. This theater closed in 1957…

Located on Hastings Street (today known as Chrysler Drive) at E. Willis Street, the Willis Theater was operating prior to 1941. Fred Lokar was the last owner of the Willis Theater, when he…

The Florence Theatre originally opened in 1913 and was remodeled and enlarged to seat over 800 six years later by Christian W. Brandt, who went on to design Detroit theaters such as the…

Built in 1961 the Five Mile Drive-In, acommodates 500 cars. It is immaculately maintained and one of the few that still has a playground for the children. Local vicinity broadcasts have…

Although a majority of the commercial buildings, some dating back to early 1900s, still remain in the scenic little community, the theatre is long gone with a library residing on the site…

The Hi-Vue Drive-In opened on April 5, 1956. This was a single screen ozoner but no car capacity was listed. No closing date given, and it has since been demolished. One site says it is now…

Constructed as the Lucon Theater around 1950, the theater became the Campus when the Butterfield chain acquired it in the early 1960's. It was on Grand River Avenue directly across from the…

The M-78 opened as a single screen in 1969, later converted to a twin and then a triplex. Car capacity was listed at 2,096. The drive in was operated by National Amusements from 1969…

For a theater built in 1927, the State Theater in East Lansing had little to offer in the way of opulence or elegance, but may have given some idea of what life was like in East Lansing in…

The Family Theater recently split its 400-seat auditorium into two theaters. The twinning cost around $200,000 and took approximately three weeks to complete. The conversion reduced the…

The Tawas Drive-In opened around 1952 with a capacity for 250 cars. That was later expanded to 400 cars in the 1970's. This single screen drive-in closed in 1991…

Originally opened as the East Detroit Theater in 1935. It was in Eastpointe, which used to be East Detroit. It was later renamed Capri Theater from October 8, 1965 and was descibed as…

The Eastwood Theater opened in 1942 with 500 seats. It continued as a movie theater through 1950, and beyond. Later, the former Eastwood Theater was a club, now closed, called the Wired…

The Rapids Theatre opened on February 28, 1950. Designed by architect Talmage C. Hughs, with Albert S. Johnson as theatre consultant. The facade is finished in a porcelain enamel. Inside…

The Ecorse Theater was opened in 1920 and in 1926, a Wurlitzer organ was installed. Listed in the 1951 Film Daily Yearbook with 400 seats. Not listed in the 1955 edition…

The Harbor Theater dates back to 1948. It operated into the late-1980's as an adult theater…

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This historic, well-preserved Art Deco single screen movie house screens first-run films…

The Robbe family opened the Elsie Theater around 1947…

Opened as the Delft Opera House in 1914. The architectural firm was Charlton & Kuenzle. It later became known simply as the Delft Theatre featuring motion pictures. The Delft now operates…

The Hilltop Drive-In was operated by Delft Theatres when it opened and later by Mescop and then M. Peterson. The drive-in opened in May of 1953 with a car capacity listed at 500 with a…

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The Colonial Theater opened in 1948 and closed around 1972. Click the link below for a photo of the Colonial Theater…

Hampton 6 Theatres which was operated by Goodrich Quality Theaters, closed in January of 2009…

This theater, located on Main Street near Seventh Street, was listed in the 1945 Film Daily Yearbook as in operation with seating for 430. It was closed in 1963, and demolished in the early…

This quad opened in 1972 on 10 Mile Road near Grand River Avenue in Farmington. It could seat a total of 1000 in its four auditoriums. The Farmington 4 didn't have a long career, since it…

A late C. Howard Crane design in Art Moderne style, opening in late 1940, the Farmington Civic sat about 550 on the main floor and about 200 in the balcony. The theater has an elegant…

The Grand River Drive-In opened in 1949 and closed around 1988. Car capacity was 1,200…

Opened in 1971 for Suburban Detroit Theaters as twin, the Old Orchard I & II, each of the auditoriums could seat 650. The theater opened with "Scrooge" and a reissue of "Doctor…

The West River Theatre was opened in 1990 by United Artists Theatres and is located on the site of the former Grand River Drive-In. Phoenix Theatres renovated and re-opened the theatre on…

The Dreamland Theater opened in 1913. In 1932 Clifford Smith bought the house and renamed it Our Theater. He died in 1959, and the building was sold to an adjacent supermarket owner. The…

The Fenton Cinema opened in 1985 as a twin screen cinema. It was located in an industrial park, off Owen Road. Operated as an independent, it eventually added more screens. The Fenton…

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The Silver Drive-In opened in 1955 and closed in 1986. This drive-in had a capacity for 400 cars…

Opened in 1921 as the Ferndale Theatre, this 425-seat theater was renamed the Studio North in 1961. Not long after it switched its name, it also switched to adult films. For years, its…

About the only thing this 1,000 seat neighborhood theater had in common with its New York City namesake was that it was also built in Art Deco style. It opened in 1937, as part of the RKO…

Operating since at least 1941 and into the 1950's. The former Flatroc Theater is now home to a cabinet store…

The Broadway Theater lasted only a decade. It opened in 1921 and closed in 1931…

The Burton Theater opened in 1939 and closed around 1968…

Like many institutions in economically depressed Flint, the Capitol Theater is now closed. It first opened in 1928, and was built for the W.S. Butterfield chain. The Capitol Theatre has…

The Cinema 10 had a interesting history before it even opened. In the early 1990's United Artists Theatres broke ground on the United Artists Genesee Valley Cinemas located just north of…

This theater opened in 1921. It could have been called the Durant Theater before it was called the Roxy Theater. It is listed as the Roxy Theater from at least 1941 thu to 1950 and was…

The Columbia Theatre opened in 1930 with seating given at 500. This was a neighborhood theatre located on Saint John Street at Everett Street. The theatre was operated by Co-Op Theatres of…

The Della Theatre at 807 Welch Blvd. was the third of three Della Theatres operated by Matt Theatres and was named after a beloved family member. Matt Theatres sold out to Butterfield…

The Dixie Theatre opened in 1929 with seating listed at 470. This was a neighborhood theatre located on Saginaaw Road at E. Pulaski Avenue. It was owned by Clark Theatres. The Dixie…

The Dort Drive-In was the first drive-in to be built in Flint, Michigan. It opened August 29, 1946 with a capacity for 700 cars. The Dort Drive-In closed in 1963. It was demolished in July…

Opened 1968 - William Riseman Associates, Architects - Single screen cinema - aprx 980 seats - divided in half 1975 aprx 450 seats each side - closed by GCC 1982 - lobby and rest rooms now…

The Electric Theater was a short lived nickelodeon in Flint, Michigan. It opened in 1909 and closed in 1910…

The Empress Theater opened in 1912 as the Della Photoplay Theater. This was the second of three Della Theaters operated by Matt Lester. The Empress Theater closed in 1919…

The Flint Art Theatre opened as the Flint Theatre in 1939 with seating listed at 522. This was a small neighborhood theatre on Saginaw Road at Tiden Street. It was independently owned and…

The Bijou was Flint's first vaudeville house and was developed by Col. Walter S. Butterfield. Col. Butterfield converted two storefronts in 1905 into a theater. It was remodeled and/or…

The Garden Theatre was built on the side of the old Garden Theatre (nee Bijou) and operated by Butterfield Theatres. It closed in 1957 becasue of the rise of television and the popularity…

A small second run neighborhood theater located just east of Zimmerman School…

The Kearsley Theatre opened in 1949. It featured slide back seats, a cry room and a parking lot that opened onto two streets. George Daly owned the theater most of its life. It closed in…

This was on Saginaw Street, south of the downtown area. When I got transferred to Flint in August of 1975, the Michigan and ajoining store-fronts appeared to have been closed and boarded up…

The U.S. 23 Twin Drive-In has been open every summer since 1950, when initially it was a single screen. It is one of two drive-ins in Mundy Township, a rarity in a country with only 800…

The Nortown Theater opened in 1940 and closed in 1966. It was designed by C. Howard Crane…

This theater opened in 1913 and was demolished in 1924…

The Palace Theatre was built in 1917 for the Butterfield Chain. It seated 1,348. This theatre and the Capitol Theatre just two blocks South were the two first run movie theatres in Flint…

Built in 1995 with twelve screens, two additional screens with stadium seating were later added and the other screens were retrofitted so all fourteen auditoriums now have stadium seating…

Mid-sized, second run theater located just north of downtown. This theater was located just north of Third Avenue on North Saginaw Street, across from the old Sears store…

Opened as thee New Savoy Theatre and later became the Royal Theatre. It was finally renamed as the Rialto Theatre. The theatre opened in 1935 with seating listed at 565. It was…

The Richard Theatre opened in 1920 with seating given at 468. The Richard Theatre was an African American theatre that was owned by Alfred Eisman thru 1940 and then by Co-Op Theatres of…

Opened as the Globe Theatre in 1920 with seating listed at 1,099. Later became the Ritz Theatre. The architectual firm for the Globe Theatre was Butler & McKenzie. There was an…

The South Dort Drive-In was built in 1963 by William Oleksyn to replace the Dort Drive-In. The first Dort Drive-In was demolished and replaced by the Dort Mall in 1963. Around 1964 the…

The Star Theater dates back to at least 1935. Still listed in 1955…

The Strand Theatre opened in 1924 with seating given at 1,050. It was located two doors down from the Strand Theatre. The State Theatre was operated by Butterfield Theatre and played mostly…

The Strand Theater in Flint was built on the site of a short lived nickelodeon called the Electric Theater. The Strand opened in 1915 and closed in 1958. It was demolished around 1961…

The Westside Drive-In opened in August of 1947 with the owner given as William Olesksyn, later the theatre was operated by Butterfield Theatres. It is listed that the drive-in closed in the…

The Ideal Theatre was built by John Cudeback in 1919. It was equipped with sound in the 1920's. The theater was bought by Steven Germani in 1929, renaming it the Princess. Germani then sold…

In 1980, Butterfield Theatres opened the Towne Cinemas at G-5380 W. Pierson Road in Mt. Morris Township (just outside Flint) on land that Butterfield was planning to develop a twin drive-in…

The Orr Theater was part of the Schuckert & Stafford chain in the late-1940's…

The Ken Theatre was one of the first movie theatres to utilize Quonset prefabricated materials in its construction. Built in 1947, from ground breaking to opening day was 12 weeks. Cost was…

The Victoria Theater opened in 1923 with 592 seats. It has been in almost continuous use ever since and was renamed Garden Theater, prior to 1941. Since around 1980, the building fell…

The Fremont Theatre was the third building from the corner. A small narrow building housing the entrance and lobby that led to the auditorium behind the building. It was closed in 1988 and…

Built as a single screen house in 1939, called the Shafer Garden City Theater. Remodeled and renamed La Parisien Theater in 1964. Featured rocking chair seats. Later twinned. Closed in the…

It's not clear if this should be Bellaire Theatre-Gaylord Cinema West or if only one name is currently being used…

The Gaylord Theatre opened in 1940 with seating listed at 455. The theatre was owned by Olson Theatres thru 1969 and then by Wisper and Wetsman until its closing. The Gaylord Theatre…

The Rialto Theater dates back to at least 1927 and was still operating into the late-1970's…

The Meredith Drive-In opened in 1952 with a capacity for 350 cars. That was later expanded to 400 cars. The Meredith Drive-In closed around 1988…

The Star had its start in 1907 when the Edison Electric Theater Company opened the Electric Theater. W.J. Millard bought it and changed the name to Star Theater. It was completely rebuilt…

The Center Theatre in Grand Blanc opened in 1946 and seated 638 people. It was owned by the Weishuhn family who lived next door to the development which included a bowling alley, dairy bar…

This fourteen-screen retro-style megaplex opened on May 19, 2006 with all-stadium seating serving the fast growing Flint suburb of Grand Blanc. An IMAX theater addition will be built in…

The Grand Haven 9 is a nine screen theater showing first run movies. It is operated by Goodrich Quality Theaters…

The Grand Theatre opened in 1928, located on Washington Avenue, built at a cost of $175,000. The theater was acquired in the late-1960's by Jack Loeks Theaters, and remodeled a few years…

The Robinhood Theatre, which opened in 1916 at Washington Avenue near Second Street in downtown Grand Haven, operated as a movie house at least into the 1950's. It was demolished in…

The Grand Ledge Opera House was built as a roller skating rink in 1884. The building was converted into an opera house known as Blake's Opera House which opened on May 12, 1886. Blake's…

The Sun Theatre opened in 1935…

In 1970, John D. Loeks along with nine other stockholders, formed a new theater circuit called Auto-Cine, Inc. with the intention of building small, automated twin theaters throughout…

Opened as the Rialto Theatre in 1940 and later renamed the Art Theatre. Seating for the Art Theatre was listed at 450. This theatre was owned by Clark Theatres. The Art Theatre closed in…

Opened as the Burton Heights Theatre in 1920…

The Cascade 3 Drive-In opened in May of 1969. This was a large drive-in with an advertised capacity for 2500 cars. Opening as a twin drive-in, the Cascade added a third screen in July of…

Massive complex including IMAX. Created as part of a larger real estate development called Celebration Village. Chain is Loeks Theatres, Inc. which has opened other new theatres in central…

This theater was originally a Cinemark project for the Woodland Mall shopping center in Grand Rapids. This 50,000 square-foot cinema contains 14 screens seating 2,500. This Celebration…

Opened as the Isis Theatre in 1940, later became the Center Theatre. Seating was listed at 872. This theatre was part of the Butterfield Theatre Chain. The Center Theatre closed in 1955…

The Majestic Theatre opened in 1903, later becoming a movie theatre. The Civic Theatre company moved into the building in 1979, reopening in October 1979. It is one of the oldest…

The Colonial Theatre opened in 1920 and was owned by Beechers Theatres. Seating was given at 400. The Colonial Theatre closed in 1950 and has since been repurposed as a beauty salon. Any…

The Creston Theatre opened in 1924. This theatre was owned by Beechers Theatres. Seating was listed at 506. Beechers had the Creston Vaudette Theatre a couple blocks away that closed once…

Opened as the Stardust Drive-In in May of 1948 and was owned by H.J. Ochs. This was the first drive-in in Grand Rapids. Was later operated by Triangle Drive-In Co. Car capacity listed at…

Located on Lake Eastbrook at the Eastbrook Mall. It originally opened as a single screen theatre. It was later twinned by dividing it down the middle. They failed to extend the projection…

Opened in 1936 as the Eastown Bijou Theatre and later renamed the Eastown Theatre. Built for and operated byperated by B&J (Butterfield & Johnson) until it closed. Butterfield…

The Family Theatre opened in 1930 with seating listed at 523. The Family Theatre was a neighborhood house independently owned. Booking was done by Independent Theatre Exhibitor Services…

Opened in 1938 as a sub-run theatre and remained the same until its closing in 1969. The building now houses a youth center…

The Franklin Theatre opened in 1912 with seating listed at 478. This was a theatre that catered to African Americans. It was operated by Butterfield Theatres. The Franklin Theatre closed…

The Fulton Theatre opened in 1930 with seating listed at 486. This was an independently owned theatre and was booked by Independent Theatre Exhibitor Services. The Fulton Theatre closed…

Originally opened as a drive-in in 1948, an indoor, single-screen theater was added and opened with 1,000 seats on December 25, 1965. In 1976 it expanded to 6-screens and in March 1984…

Grand Rapids had a new eight screen theatre open for the Summer of 1992. Owned by Goodrich Quality Theatres as a part of a get acquainted program for two weeks all seats were 99 cents…

Opened in 1914 as RKO Keith's Vaudeville Theatre. Later converted to motion picturs and was later named the Empress and Finally Keith's Theatre. It was one of the ultimates in theatre…

The Kent Theatre opened in 1930 with seating given at 1,081. This theatre was part of the Butterfield Theatre circuit. The Kent Theatre closed in 1955 and has since been demolished. The…

The Madison Theatre opened in 1923 with seating listed at 480. This was a small neighborhood theatre. This house was owned by Beechers Theatres. The Madison Theatre closed in 1955 and…

The Midtown Theater was built around 1883 as Powers Opera House. By the 1940's it was screening movies, known as Powers Theater. It was remodeled in 1948 and was renamed Midtown Theater…

Opened as a single screen theatre in 1968. It was operated by Co-Op Theatres of Michigian at the time. Goodrich became the operator in 1975, they twinned the theatre in 1978 and operated…

The Our Theatre opened in 1928 seating 1122. It remained in operation as a motion picture theatre until 1966 when it closed. A little later it was reopened as the Grand Rapids Civic Theatre…

Opened as the North Park Theatre in 1940, later became the Park Theatre with seating listed at 450. The Park Theatre was an Independent and was booked by Independent Theatre Exhibitor…

The Plainfield Drive-In opened in August of 1957. It was operated by Jack Loeks Theatres. Car capacity was listed at 1,000 with a single screen. Possibly closed sometime in 1990 according…

The Regent Theater opened in 1923 and closed in 1964…

Opened as the Fairmont Theatre in 1930, it was later renamed the Roxy Theatre. Closed as a movie theatre in 1945, and now houses retail…

The Royal Theatre opened in 1914 with seating listed at 602. Butterfield operated the theatre thru 1955. B&J Theatres (short for Butterfield & Johnson) operated the theatre thru…

Opened as the Temple Theatre in 1925, in 1930 became the Columbia Theatre and later the Savoy Theatre. Seating for the theatre was listed at 700. Initially it was operated by Co-Op Theatres…

The Stadium Drive-In was owned by Richard Lavigne and opened in July of 1952. Car capicity is not listed on the site. It was a single screen and possibly closed in May of 1960. The…

The Star Theatre was 12 screen theatre in Walker, a suburb of Grand Rapids, MI. It had 4,000 rocking chair seats, Art Deco styling, a 12,000 foot lobby with a 36 foot high arched glass…

Opened as the Brown Stocking Avenue Theatre in 1930 and later renamed the Stocking Avenue Theatre. This was an independent theatre with seating listed at 612. Independent Theatre Exhibitor…

The Strand Theatre opened in 1920 and was operated by Consolidated Theatres. Seating was listed at 400. Butterfield Theatres took over operations in 1930 until closing. The Strand…

Opened as the Alcazar Theatre in 1920, became the Roosevelt Theatre in 1935 and in 1940 renamed the Town Theatre. Seating was listed at 490. This was an Independent until 1950 with bookings…

Opened as the Rivoli Theatre in 1930, in 1935 became the Uptown Theatre. Seating was listed at 450. This was a neighborhood house located on Division Avenue at Wealthy Street. The Uptown…

The Vista Drive-In opened in August of 1955. It was operated bu Butterfield Theatres. The theatre closed possibly in 1983. Car capicity listed at 1,300 (large drive-in) with a single…

Opened in 1923 as the Michigan Theatre, it was remdeled and reopend as theVogue Theatre in 1938. It was an independent theatre. Seating was listed at 440. Independent Theatre Exhibitor…

Beginning life in 1911 as the Pastime Vaudette, this neighborhood theatre served as a vaudeville house but soon dropped live acts in favor of movies. During World War I the theater served…

The State Theatre opened in 1940 with seating listed at 420. This theatre was an independent and was booked by Independent Theatre Exhibition Services. The State Theatre closed in 1953…

A plain exterior conceals a few neo-vintage flourishes in the lobby of this former Cinemark multiplex, opened in 1999. It was sold to regional exhibitor Celebration! Cinema in 2007. The…

The Rialto Theater first opened around 1915. That theater was destroyed by fire in 1930 and the current theater was built immediately to replace the first theater. This theater remains open…

The Greenville Drive-In opened on June 20, 1950. The movie playing that day was "Four Days Leave" with Cornel Wilde. This drive-in had a capacity for 300 cars. The Greenville Drive-In…

Originally built as Phelp's Opera House. The Silver Theatre was given an Art Deco style remodel in 1935. It was closed in 1986…

The Punch and Judy, opened in 1930, was designed by Robert O. Derrick in Colonial Revival style, looking more like a Virginia country manor than a movie house. The theater sat around 740…

Opened as the Grosse Pointe Park in 1923, this theater was renamed the Aloma in 1930. It was closed in 1955, and today the building is used for office space…

The Esquire Theatre, a large Art Deco style neighborhood house built for the Wisper & Wetsman chain in 1938, it was designed by C. Howard Crane';s firm. The Esquire Theatre served as…

For a neighborhood house, in the suburb of Grosse Pointe Woods, the Woods Theatre was originally quite large, and sat well over 2,500, all on a single floor. It was built for the United…

The Hiawatha Theatre was opened in September 1937 by G.A. Peterson…

The former Gem Theater is now home to an American Legion Post. It was still listed as operating as a movie theater in 1950…

Listed as open in the 1950 edition of Film Daily Yearbook. Any further information would be appreciated…

Opened in 1926, the Lasky Theatre could seat around 1,000. It was closed by 1950, and its interior soon after gutted for retail use. It has served in this capacity ever since, most recently…

Opened in 1924, the Martha Washington Theatre was re-named the Campau Theatre in 1970, but closed soon afterwards. Any further information would be appreciated…

The Poland Theater was a silent-era theater that opened in 1921 as the Caniff Theater. The name was changed to the Eagle Theater and finally the Poland Theater. This theater closed around…

The Star Theater opened in 1915 as the White Star Theater. The name was changed to the Star Theater in the 1930's. This theater closed around 1949. Click the link below for a photo of the…

The Kerredge was built in 1902 and hosted many vaudeville and stage plays in its early years, as well as movies some time later. The theater was destroyed by fire on May 29, 1959. The…

The Pic Theater opened in 1910 as a vaudeville theater called the Orpheum Theater. In the 1920's the Orpheum started showing movies. In 1959 there was a fire at this theater and it was…

In a letter dated November 5, 1917, George J. Jenks and Anna Belle Jenks Scranton deeded Lot 34 of the Salt reserve of the City of Harbor Beach to the people for Community House purposes…

Located across from Eastland Mall this was convenient for people going to the mall to go across the street and see a movie. It is closed as of 2007…

The East Side Drive-In opened May 26, 1938. The movie on opening night was "The Big Broadcast of 1938" with W. C. Fields. Car capacity in later years is listed at 970. The East Side…

A Suburban Detroit theater, the 1200-seat Eastland opened in 1969 and was originally designed by Ted Rogvoy, the architect who earlier designed such Detroit-area treasures as the now-lost…

The Eastside, located in Harper Woods on Harper Avenue, was the first drive-in to open in the Detroit area. It opened in 1938 with space for about 1000 cars. Operated for many years by…

The former Budd Theater was most recently used as offices for a community action group. The building is now for sale…

The Hart Theater dates back to at least 1935. It is still listed in 1955…

Opened in the early-1940's as a single screen theatre seating 362. It is done in Art Moderne style. It was still operating into the 2000's but had closed by 2005…

Opened in 1948, this solo screen drive-in features double bills on weekends. Open seasonally on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. It accomodates 300 cars and sound is provided on FM broadcast…

This theater is a great small theater if you want to get away from the hustle and bustle of the large theaters and enjoy a good movie. They even have a foosball table and good popcorn. The…

The Hastings Drive-In opened sometime in the early-1950's. This ozoner is listed with a car capacity of 300 cars and a single screen. No time given as to when it closed. If the Bedford Road…

There is no description available for this theater…

The Belmont Theatre opened in 1934, seating a little under 500. It was located in the Highland Park district, north of Detroit, on Woodward Avenue near Grand Avenue. It was fairly…

The Grand Theater opened around 1924 and closed in the late-1950's…

The Highland Park opened in 1915, designed by B.C. Wetzell, who also designed several other Detroit-area theaters, like the DeLuxe and Arcade. It could seat 1,600 and may have originally…

Built for William Graham and Nathan and Raymond Schreiber in 1937, the Palmer Park cost over $200,000 to erect, and was designed by Charles N. Agree in French Moderne style, similar in…

Opened in 1927 for RKO, the Uptown was designed to as a sister theater to the downtown Oriental. It was originally a venue for vaudeville, but later switched to movies and contained a…

The Krim Theater, designed by Charles N. Agree in his usual Streamline Moderne style, opened in 1941. It could seat over 760. During most of the 1950's, the Krim Theater screened art…

The Hillsdale Drive-In opened on June 27, 1948 with a car capacity of 400, single screen ozoner. Admission at the opening was fifty cents for adults. No closing date given but since…

The Roxy Theater is now used for live music/concerts. The theater is also available for weddings and parties…

The Center Theater was operating from at least 1941, and through into the 1960's. The building is now home to a retail store…

The Knickerbocker was built, along with much of the rest of the surrounding block, for Tieman Slagh, who wanted to bring vaudeville to Holland. His theater was named for a popular early…

The Park Theatre has been restored in the early 2000's, after remaining dormant since 1984. A new group, The Preservation Through Performance Foundation, was recently formed to begin…

The Cherry Bowl Drive-In, so named for its location in Michigan's northwestern cherry growing region (in fact, the theater is still surrounded by cherry orchards today), opened in…

The Copper Mall Theater is one of two movie theatres in Houghton that are operated by the Rogers Cinema chain…

The Lode Theater, on Shelden Avenue in downtown Houghton, was one of two movie houses operated by the UP Theaters mini-chain. The other was the Pic Theater located in Hancock, MI. In 2008…

The 55-Hi Drive-In opened somewhere around 1950 and was operated by Jim Olsen, later by Steve Eisner. The drive-in was listed at 500 car capacity with a single screen. No closing date…

This 450-seat Log Cabin Chalet style movie theatre was designed by C. Howard Crane to look like a hunter's cabin. Originally opened in 1941 by W.J. Olson, who owned many theaters in…

The Howell Theater was constructed in 1927 as both a movie house and a live entertainment venue. It replaced the smaller Temple Theater (located one block west) that was apparently suitable…

I don't know when the De Luxe Theater closed but it was operating since at least 1935 and still listed in 1955…

The Cinema III, first opened in 1980 and closed in 2007, has reopened in early 2009 under new ownership as the Imlay City Cinemas. The new owner Remo Querciagrossa, noticed the for sale…

Began as a movie theatre with occasional church services held on Sunday. Used in 1971-1972 as a concert venue. Then it became an adult move theatre soon after. It was eventually shut down…

The Ionia Drive-In opened on June 18, 1953. The ozoner was listed with a car capacity of 300 with a single screen. It was operated by Wisper & Wetsman. The drive-in closed sometime…

The Ionia Theatre opened around 1931. The Ionia is now a twin screen theater. In addition to showing first run movies, there are monthly bluegrass festivals and live musical concerts…

The Braumart Theater was designed in 1924, by the architectural firm Herbst & Kuenzli of Milwaukee, WI. The former Braumart Theater in Iron Mountain, Michigan is now a performing arts…

Opened on 19th December 1921 with Charlie Chaplin and Jackie Coogan starring in "The Kid" plus "The Kineto Review", a short subject. The architectural firm of Herbst & Kuenzli of…

The Cloverland Cinema opened as a twin and now has four screens. It has been operating since at least 1987…

The Ironwood Theatre opened in 1928 as a vaudeville and movie house. It later switched to movies-only and closed in 1982. The theater was donated to the City of Ironwood and was placed…

The Morgan Theater was sold and converted into a jewelry store in 1955…

The Rex was part of the Ironwood Amusement Corporation in the Fifties and Sixties. The company also owned the Ironwood and drive-in in Ironwood as well as the Range in Hurley, Wisconsin…

A recent article by the AP said that the historic Butler Theatre in Ishpeming was being transformed into an antique mall. This was a little shocking because this is the theater that Otto…

The Evergreen Drive-In was owned by Evergreen Enterprises and is listed as opening in June of 1950. Car capacity is listed at 200 with a single screen. Closed in August of 1986…

There is no description available for this theater…

The Bel-Air Drive-In opened on April 25, 1955 with accomodations for 700 cars, single screen ozoner. It was operated by National Amusements. No closing date given but has since been…

The Capitol Theatre was built in around 1912. It was remodeled in 1938 to the plans of architect William L. Pereira. While showing a horror-flick marathon and right in the middle of some…

Here are the recollections of young boy, who grew up in Jackson, MI: The Family Theater was located in downtown Jackson, on or near the corner of Michigan and Mechanic Streets…

The Hilltop Drive-In was a small, short lived drive-in that opened in 1951. It had one screen and a capacity for 80 cars. Some drive-in sites list it as closing in 1952 while others put the…

The Jackson Drive-In opened on April 17, 1948. This single screen ozoner was listed with a car capacity of 700. From 1966 until its closing somewhere around 1988 it was operated by National…

The Majestic Theater dates back to at least 1916 when a Hillgreen-Lane theater organ was installed. The Majestic Theater is listed in the 1951 Film Daily Yearbook but not in the 1955…

The Michigan Theatre opened in June 1930, the last and largest of several movie palaces built in Jackson. Designed in the Spanish Baroque style, it featured ornate plasterwork, marble…

The Hillsdale Community Theater players moved into the former Civic Theater building (also known as the Civic Hall in its later years) in 1972 after nearly a decade of being located in a…

Opened in 1966 near the campus of Western Michigan University. It was a nice large auditorium with large screen & was the first theater to be built since 1938 in the greater Kalamazoo…

The Capitol Theater in Kalamazoo opened in 1907 as the Majestic Theater. It was later renamed the Capitol Theater and closed in 1974. The building was demolished to make way for a parking…

Opened in April of 1955 by A.O. Ochs who operated it until 1961 and then by Butterfield Theatres until its closing in July of 1985. This ozoner was listed with a 800 car capacity and a…

The Fuller was located on South Burdick just down from the large Woolworths store. The theatre opened in the 1920's and closed in the 1960's. The lobby of the old theatre now houses a…

This is a small family theater but friendly staff and well maintained. The two largest auditoriums only hold less than 200 hundred people and do not have stadium seating. The prices are…

Opened in 1997…

Originally a two-screen, William Riseman Associates Architects, the larger auditorium was split in the late 70s…

Located in the West Main Mall on West Main Street. One large auditorium from original opening of theater in 1969, four smaller multiplex houses added in 1981 & two additional smaller…

The New Theatre dates back to at least 1914. Closed by the early 1950's…

The Orpheum Theater dates back to at least 1911 and closed around 1950…

Opened in July of 1948 by Albert Ochs as the Kalamazoo Auto Theatre and operated under Ochs until 1961. Butterfield Theatres took over operations in 1961 until it closed in 1983. This was a…

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This atmospheric movie palace is now the home of performing arts and live concerts…

This theater was once a commercial building (The Wheeler Blase Company) that was transformed into a theater in December 1937 by Peter Schramm. Henry Vander Horst completed the work for…

Opened in 1940, the Keego Theater was built in Art Moderne style, with "The Grapes of Wrath" being the first film shown there. In the 1970's, it received a new marquee. The original was…

The Woodland Drive-In opened possibly in July of 1969. It was operated by Jack Loeks Theatres. Car capacity listed as 800 with a single screen. Closed possibly in 1988 and has been…

The Mazda is now a grocery store…

The Bijou Theatre was located at the corner of Washington and Michigan Ave. in the Oakland Building. The Bijou operated from 1910-1926. The theater ceased to exist when the Oakland Building…

The Capitol Theatre was located at 204 N. Washington Ave. and was managed by Butterfield theatres of Detroit. In 1955, the building was owned by the Claude Cody estate. The manager at that…

The Elmwood Plaza 8 Theaters was built around 1983 and closed in 2004…

Opened as the Colonial Theatre, it later became the Lansing Theatre and finally the Esquire Theatre. It was operated by Butterfield Theatres as a sub-run house and closed in 1960…

There is no description available for this theater…

The Lansing Drive-In was built in 1948 and closed around 1981. It was last operated by Butterfield Theatres. Car capacity was approximately 1,100…

The Lansing Mall Theater opened in 1970 as a free-standing, contemporary building on Mall Drive near the original west end of the mall. Throughout its life, it remained a single screen…

Designed by John Eberson in 1920, the Strand Theatre, with its highly ornate terra cotta facade, was originally a vaudeville house, but later started to screen movies as well, eventually…

The Northside Drive-In opened in August of 1952. The original owner was Leon Robbe. The drive-in opened as a single scren but later became a triplex. It was later owened by Ashmum Theatres…

The Northtown Theater in Lansing opened in 1939. This theater closed in the early 1960's. An address search shows a bookstore located at this address today…

The Spartan Twin (named for the Michigan State University Spartans) opened in October 1967 and was located in the Frandor Shopping Center, not far from the west edge of the MSU…

The Starlite Drive-In opened in May of 1953 and was owned by J. Blackburn. It was later operated by Butterfield Theatres until its closing in August of 1984. Car capacity was listed at…

This multiplex is part of the Neighborhood Cinema Group…

After building the Pix Theatre, George Smith decided to build the Lyric Theatre down the street. It showed silent films at first, until 1928 when talking films came to Lapeer. I'm not…

The Streamline Moderne style Pix Theatre was built in 1941, with a seating capacity for 512, all on a single floor. It closed in 1996 when it could no longer compete with the local…

Built in 1925, and designed by C. Howard Crane, as the Lincoln Park, this 600 seat theater was remodeled in the early 40s in Art Moderne style by another prolific Detroit-area theater…

The Linden was located on the corner of Linden and South Bridge. Seating was 316. It had a short life as a theatre, opening in 1946 and closing in 1957. It has been a church ever since…

Fairly new complex, largest in the area…

Opened in 1965 as a twin, with 1000- and 510-seat auditorium, the Livonia Mall Cinema I & II, as its name implies, was built at the Livonia Mall. It purportedly cost $2 million to…

One of the last Detroit-area theaters built with a full stage and orchestra pit, the Mai Kai was built for Nicholas George in 1963 at a cost of over $1.5 million. It could seat 1,396 and…

Opened in 1988 by AMC which closed it in October of 2009, it was reopened in December 2009, after upgrades, by Phoenix Theatres…

The Terrace was the first new movie house in the Detroit area opened since the late 40s, not counting the Campus in Ann Arbor (1956). It opened in late 1962 with "The Music Man" which was…

The Strand Theatre opened on June 12, 1928. It is on West Main at South Broadway and seated 502. It closed on December 2, 1985 with its last feature being "Back to the Future". It has…

There is no description available for this theater…

Dating from 1925, the last operators were Carmike Cinemas, and it was closed in September 2007…

The Starlite Drive-In is listed as opening in May of 1953 with a car capacity of 500 and a single screen. Various owners are listed. Glen Wallace, Steve Eisner, D. White and J Loseth. Since…

This was the first building constructed for the Moral Re-armament (MRA) in 1954. The building's main trusses were constructed from Norway pine from Bois Blanc Island. Since the MRA was an…

The Orpheum Theatre, which dates to 1885, became a movie theater in 1923. It has been home to Mackinac Island's "Haunted Theatre" since 1974…

The Abbey was an early neighborhood multiplex that saw its heyday in the 70's and 80's. Five screens were added to the theater over a period of time to increase it from a three screen to an…

It was a nice drive-in located on Dequindre Road just up the street from the Hazel Park race track…

This was a very very small drive-in, capacity is listed at 40 with a single screen. The drive-in opened in July of 1951 and was closed by July of 2007. Owners are listed as Drive-In…

The Chippewa Drive-In opened in July of 1950 with a capacity for 275 cars. The car capacity was expanded to 500 in the 1970's. The opening night movie was "Ma and Pa Kettle Go to Town" with…

The Lyric Theatre opened on November 25th, 1915. Emery J. Miller of Fitzpatrick, McElroy & Company leased the building which was erected by Gus Kitzinger. Charles Anderson was the…

The Vogue Theater opened in 1938. Originally a single-auditorium, the Vogue Theater's balcony was at some point coverted into an additional screen. Otherwise, the interior is remarkably…

There is no description available for this theater…

The Cinema Two Drive-In was initially operated by Delft Theatres and later by Bill Giles. Opening listed at possible 1957 and closed in 2001. The ozoner listed a car capacity at 350 with a…

There is no description available for this theater…

The Michigan Drive-In opened in 1950. The movies that play at this drive-in are listed as "family" movies by the owner. Some people classify them as "religious" movies…

The Wexford was still in operation by 1965…

The Mariner Theater was operating before 1941, and was still operating in the early 1970's…

Located on West Main Street just west of Green Bay Street, this old downtown house opened in 1914 as a single screen theatre seating 650. It has been converted into a modern five screen…

This theater, in downtown Marquette, Michigan, operated from 1936 to 1994. It has now been converted into a bookstore…

There is no description available for this theater…

The Garden Theater was built in 1915 and closed sometime in the 1950s. The building is now used for retail…

The Marysvile Drive-In was originally owned by Alex Slendak and later operated by Wisper & Wetsman. The theatre was listed as opening in the early-1950's (50-51). Car capacity was…

Built for the United Detroit Theaters chain in 1942, the nearly-1500 seat Mel cost over $250,000 to erect and was designed in Streamline Moderne style. The Mel contained a small stage…

The M-60 Drive-In opened somewhere around 1953. Owner when it opened was not given. Steve Eisner took over the drive in in 1969. The theatre closed in 1983. The ozoner has a car capacity…

The Lloyd Theatre opened around 1926. The building is currently used as an antiques store…

The small 300 seat Arcade Theater in Middleville opened in the early-1930's, and was still open in 1950…

The Frolic Theater in Midland, Michigan dates back to at least 1927 when a Robert-Morton theater organ size 2/6 was installed. The theater was still operating into the 1950's…

There is no description available for this theater…

The Sunset Drive-In opened in August of 1950 and was operated by Ashmun Theatres. Car capacity was listed at 450 cars with a single screen. It later was operated by National Amusements. The…

The Mikado was operated by Jim Ellis in the fifties and sixties…

The former Milan Theater is now used as a hardware store…

The Bel-Aire Twin Drive-In went through a few names when it was a single screen Custer, General Custer, Bel-Aire and finally when a second screen was added, the Bel-Aire Twin. It is listed…

Built as the Denniston I & II in 1974 on a corner of the long-ago closed Denniston Drive-In's property (both theaters were operated at the time by the Denniston Theatre Company), the…

The Denniston Drive-In opened in April of 1956. The opening night movie was "Blood Alley" with John Wayne and Lauren Bacall. This drive-in had a capacity for 1000 cars. The Denniston…

The Dixie Theatre opened in 1930 and was part of the Denniston Family theatre circuit that included the Family, Monroe, Majestic, and the Denniston 1 & 2. Although the theatre closed around…

The original Family Theatre opened in 1917 and was located on Front Street. A new Family was built in 1929 directly across the street from where the Monroe Theatre would be built eight…

The Majestic Theatre opened in 1935 and was part of the Denniston Family theatre circuit that included the Dixie, Family, Monroe and the Denniston 1 & 2. Although the theatre closed around…

The River Raisin Centre for the Arts is dedicated to providing high quality performing arts presentations, arts education and professional support to local arts organizations. The River…

The Frenchtown Square was initially a Hoyts property until it was acquired by Regal a few years ago. The theatre consists of eight relatively small auditoriums and a spacious…

The River City was a very basic two screen, no thrill cinema. The theatre was razed sometime during the past five years to allow for construction of two restaurants. Please update if you…

The Starlite Drive-In opened as the Dixie Drive-In, in June of 1948. No time line when the name was changed. Listed as having a car capacity of 275 with one screen. Listed as closed in…

The Park Theater dates back to at least 1950 and was still operating into the 1980's…

The former Gem was built in 1916 as a venue for both vaudeville and the movies. The Rex was vacant for years until THSA member Evan Chase bought the theater and restored it. A theatre organ…

The Skyline Drive-In opened in the early 1950's (50-51) as the Skyline Auto Theatre. It was owned by L. McLain. Car capacity was listed at 200 with a single screen. No time line as to when…

The Mount Clemens-Macomb opened in 1921 as a legitimate theater, and was converted into movies in the 1930s. The theater closed in the 1980s. The theater then hosted live productions under…

It was built into the mezzanine and first floor of the Daily Monitor-Leader Building, which had been designed by architects Weston & Ellington. The Emsee Theatre opened in August 1946…

The Jewel Theatre opened as the Bijou Theatre in 1910. The operators were Robert G. Peltier and Walter Trombley. This was the second location of the Bijou Theatre, which had been opened as…

The North Flint Drive-In opened in 1948 as the Flint Drive-In. This single screen drive-in had a capacity for 760 cars. The North Flint Drive-In closed around 1966 and has been demolished…

The Northland Drive-In, operated by Drive In Theatres Inc, opened on September 5, 1956. This single screen drive-in had a capacity for 1200 cars. The Northland Drive-In was sold to…

The Mt. Clemens Drive-In was one of the last of the single-screen drive-ins in southwestern Michigan when it closed in 1996 (leaving the Ford-Wyoming in Dearborn the sole survivor). This…

The Flint Drive-In opened in May of 1948 later became known as the North Flint Drive-In. It was owned by Ulmer, Gordon and Berne and later by Mt. Morris Drive-In Corp. Car capacity is…

Opened in Sept. 1956 and owned by William Oleksyn, the Northland Drive-In listed car capacity at 1,200 and a single screen. Later operated by Butterfield Theatres. Closed in 1986…

There is no description available for this theater…

The Pleasant Drive-In opened in June of 1965 and was owned by Steve Eisner. This single screen ozoner had a car capacity listed at 500 with a single screen. It later became part of the…

The former Ward Theater in Mount Pleasant, Michigan is now a church. Click the link below for a late 1990's photo of the Ward Theater when it was still screening movies…

There is no description available for this theater…

This theater was located in the Merrill Block at southwest corner of Jefferson Street and Western Avenue…

The Auto Theatre opened in 1948 with a capacity for 700 cars. The Auto Theatre closed in 1981 and has been demolished…

The Michigan Theater opened on Sept. 17, 1930. Built during the Depression, by Schlossman Theatre Inc., and designed by famed theater architect C. Howard Crane, descriptions of the theater…

The Getty 4 Drive-In opened in 1949 as the NK Drive-In. NK stands for Nick Kuris who owned the NK Drive-In. Jack Loeks purchased the drive-in and renamed it the Getty Drive-In. This…

Opened in 1921 as the Rivoli, the theater switched to talkies in 1929 and was renamed Our Theatre in 1931. The theater did not receive its current name until 1965, when the Fonstein…

The North Drive-In opened in August of 1956, and was originally owned by Nick Kuris, later operated by Jack Loeks Theatres. The car capacity is not listed but was s single screen. Closed in…

The Strand Theatre was built in downtown Muskegon Heights in 1923. It was not just a theater but an entire mixed-use building including retail and apartments. It was bought by the City…

The Airport Drive-In opened around 1957 and was operated by Delft Theatres. Closing is listed around 1987. This ozoner listed a car capacity at 700 with a single screen…

Constructed in 1925 and opening September 20th, 1926 with the film "Sparrows", the Vista Theater closed as a movie theater in 1972. It has been used since then for live stage productions…

The Tahqua Land Theater opened in August of 1930 as the State Theater. It closed in 1969. The theater reopened in August of 1974 and received a renovation over the next three years. In 1997…

The Niles Drive-In opened in August of 1948. It has gone through several names, Niles 31 Outdoor, 31 Outdoor, Niles Outdoor and finally Niles Drive-In. The ozoner lists car capacity at…

Opened in 1927, the Ready Theatre is listed in the Film Daily Yearbook, 1941 edition, with a seating capacity of 1,000. In the 1950 edition of F.D.Y. the seating capacity is given as…

The Wonderland Cinema is operated by the independent Moores Theatres chain…

The Penniman-Allen Theatre, or P & A Theatre, opened in 1925, built for Kate Penniman-Allen, who also constructed the theater of the same name in Plymouth. The Victorian-style theater cost…

There is no description available for this theater…

18 modern screens with all digital projection (Emagine is reportedly the first chain to go 100% digital projection) - talk about great picture and sound, perfect every time. Some…

This theater was named for jazz great Duke Ellington and was part of the Wisper and Westman circuit, seating about 1,500. It was designed by Charles N. Agree in late Streamline Moderne…

AMC Towne 4 was at 11 Mile Road and Greenfield Road, next to K-Mart. Now it is part of car dealership of some sorts. I worked there when it changed from 1st to 2nd run, the night after…

The Westside Drive-In was one of the earliest drive-ins to open in the Detroit region, and could accomodate 700 cars. The opening movie in 1940 was John Wayne & Claire Trevor in "Allegheny…

The Crest Drive-In opened in September of 1950 with a capacity for 800 cars. Around 1973 the drive-in was sold and the new owners started showing adult movies. The Crest closed in 1984 and…

This was the second AMC multiplex to open with the Meridian Mall (the first was the Meridian West 4 originally the Meridian 1-4), opening about eight years after that theater. It was closed…

This was one of the earliest of the original AMC multiplexes, and was located within the Meridian Mall when that shopping center originally opened in 1969. In 1977, during one of the mall's…

The Ontonagon Theater opened around 1915 and closed in the 1950s. The building is now used as a bank…

Opened in March 1950 seating 361. Shows first run attractions…

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The Capitol Theatre was originally a vaudeville house when it opened in 1926, and later turned to movies only. It closed as a movie theater in 1985. After a brief period when it was home…

Located on Washington Street near Exchange Street, this theater may have originally been known as the Theatorium, or replaced a theater by that name. The Strand Theatre is shown as seating…

Built on the site of the original 450-seat single screen Oxford Theatre (built in the late 19th Century as the Oxford Opera House), which was destroyed by fire in 1972, this theater was…

My favorite place to go to see movies. They have the cheapest tickets for some of the best movies. Mondays and Thurdays are $1.50 nights, Fridays and Saturdays are $3.00 nights, and Sundays…

The Gaslight Cinema was due to close at the end of 2001, when the owners of the old Gaslight, which has been in operation since the 1940's, planned to open a new, $3.5 million, eight-screen…

Located in Petoskey's Gaslight District, the building that housed the Hollywood Theater was originally a local department store built in the last half of the 19th century. The theater…

The Bay Drive-In opened in 1959. It was located on Route 23, four miles north of Pinconning. This drive-in had a capacity for 300 cars. The Bay Drive-In closed around 1973…

The 131 Drive-In opened in 1950 and closed around 1984. It had a capacity for 400 cars…

The M-89 Cinema is located in the Cross Oaks Mall in Plainwell, near Otsego, MI…

Opened just three days before the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, the Penn's first feature was "Weekend in Havana" with John Payne and Carmen Miranda. This Art Moderne movie…

Built for Kate Penniman-Allen in 1918 and commonly known as the P & A, this theater could seat around 600, but was equipped with everything a large movie palace would contain, including…

The Slapshot Drive-In opened in 2004. It is located adjacent to the Compuware Sports Arena where hockey games are played. This drive-in has three screens and shows double features…

The Eagle Theatre is the epitone of the late vaudeville, early movie theater. It is a fine example of the use of Moorish design influences on a cinema building. The three-story facade is…

Located at the busy intersection of West Huron and North Telegraph, the Huron opened in 1942 seating 426. It lasted until the late 60's when it closed and was demolished. It was a single…

Located on Telegraph Road in Pontiac. It was quite a ways to drive to if you lived in or near Detroit. It did have a lot of first run movies though. It was torn down quite some time ago…

The Oakland Theater in Pontiac opened in 1919. It had cascading seats with no official balcony. This theater burned down in 1960…

The Orpheum ws built by the Kleist family and opened in 1927. It was called "the queen of the downtown theatres". The Kleists also owned four other theatres, the Strand, Eagle, Oakland, and…

The Pontiac opened in 1950. In the Seventies, capacity was 1200 cars. The drive-in closed in 1990 and was demolished after a series of fires…

Another twin where GCC split the larger auditorium in half…

The Howland Opera House was opened on March 25, 1905 and was reputed to be state-of-the-art with "new type slanting floors" and an 800-pound red asbestos curtain. It cost $40,000 and seated…

Built on the grounds of the abandoned Pontiac Siverdome in Pontiac, Michigan, it opened in 2003 and closed in 2005. The drive-in reopened briefly in 2006, and then closed again until…

Opened in 1921, the Strand closed in the mid-1980s and was reopened briefly in the 1990s by a theater troupe before it closed again. The theater is now on its way back to life thanks to a…

The Family Theater is listed as operating from at least 1941. It closed around 1965…

Opened as the Desmond Theatre in 1922 seating 1350. Later was remodeled in an art deco style and was renamed the Huron Theatre. It ran until 1990 when it was bought and closed by GKC…

Owners are listed as H.J. Ochs and later Triangle Drive-In Co. The drive-in opened in May of 1948 and it lists a closing date om 1986. This ozoner had a car capacity of 600 with a single…

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Opened in 1960 This 1100+ seat theater is just a small part of the McMorran Place Complex that also houses two ice arenas and convention facilities. Run as a second run movie house and as a…

The former Sun Theatre, located on Maple Street near Academy Street in downtown Portland, Michigan today serves as the Portland Playhouse, a venue for live theater. Any additional…

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Community Theatres operated this ozoner, it boasted a 1,000 car capacity with a single screen. Listed as opening in May of 1949 and closed in December of 1962, It has since been demolished…

The Strand Theater opened in the 1920's. The name was changed to the Reed Theater in the 1940's. The theater closed in 1973 and was demolished about ten years ago…

The Rouge Theater dates back to at least 1943 when it was listed with 695 seats (not listed in 1941). The Rouge Theater is listed in the 1951 Film Daily Yearbook but not in the 1955…

Was an old movie house originally called the Hills Theater that opened in around 1942. The Hills Theater was closed in the 1980's. It was renovated into a pedestrian walkway with some…

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Built for Nicholas George about 1971, the Hampton 3 opened adjacent to the Hampton Plaza Shopping Center. In 1979, noted theater architect Louis Wiltse was hired to add another auditorium…

The Rogers City Theater (originally known as the Rogers Theater) located on Third Street in Rogers City, is an Art Moderne style theater with seating for 500. The theater shows first-run…

The Strand Theatre dates back to at least 1941. Still listed as the Strand Theatre in 1955 with 323 seats. The former Strand Theatre is now known as the Roscommon Cinema…

The Sundown Drive-In opened in July of 1950 and was operated by Wisper & Wetsman Theatres. The drive-in had a car capacity listed at 500 with a single screen. No closing date found and…

The Gratiot Drive-In was designed by Ted Rogvoy and opened in April of 1948. It featured "Free pony rides, merry-go-round and other playground amusements for the kids, a large restaurant…

The Roseville opened in 1927 drawing thousands of people to the corner of Utica and Gratiot. It had a long and successful life but when the era of multiscreen multiplexes emerged, the…

Opened in 1965 as a sister to the Livonia Mall Cinema (now called the American Family Cinemas) by General Cinemas Corporation, the identical Macomb Mall Cinema I & II opened with "The…

Opened in 1922 as the Washington Theatre, this theater could seat 1,148 and contained an organ. It was designed by Frederick D. Madison. The Washington Theatre remained a second-run…

The Main Theatre opened in 1941, and today remains a popular movie house showing independent, foreign, and classic films…

It was a drive-in theatre located in Royal Oak. Although it was tucked back a few blocks from Woodward Avenue, there was a marquee on top of a store on the east side of Woodward which…

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The Auto Theatre was a drive-in theater located in Saginaw which opened in 1948 and closed in 1986. It had a capacity for 400 cars…

Most likely opened as Janes Theatre prior to 1941, it retained this name until at least 1950. Later becoming the Bel Air Theatre, I used to go when I was a kid. It closed and demolished…

The Bel-Air Drive-In opened in April of 1945. The ozoner listed capacity at 1,000 cars with a single screen. First operated by Ashmum Theatres and later by National Amusements. According to…

Located in a district north of downtown at Fashion Square Boulevard and Schust Road. Cinema and Suds was a theatre with tables and chairs, where you could order food served by waiters…

I went there to see "Battlestar Galactica" when I lived a few blocks away in the late 1970s. Glad to see it's still in business, apparently independently-owned and operated…

The Daniel Theater opened around 1942. I don't know when the Daniel Theater closed as a movie theater but this theater was being used as a concert venue by the mid-1960s…

The Fort Saginaw Mall Cinema did not last long - it opened in the late 1960's and closed about 1975 or 1976. It was in a bad area and attracted a rough crowd. Plagued with crime and murder…

The Franklin Theatre opened in 1915 on Franklin Street. It remained in operation until 1973. Any further information on the Franklin would be appreciated…

A single screen theatre, built approximately 1969 by GCC, William Riseman Associates, Architects. Now a fabric store…

Located on the urban side of town, I think it was built in 1930. In the 1940's it was operated by Paramount Pictures Inc. through their subsidiary W.S. Butterfield Theatres Inc. and…

This theater is connected to the Saginaw 8 theater. It has 4 second run screens. It is usually pretty busy on weekends when it shows movies for $2. The people there are really nice! They…

This theater has been in Saginaw since 1975 and has been known by many names. Most people in Saginaw still refer to it as the Quad. The popcorn there is really good and you can also choose…

The State Theater operated from at least 1930 and into the 1950's. The building has been home to a church for many years now…

The Jeffers Theater dates back to at least the 1910's. The name was changed to the Strand Theater in 1915. The Strand Theater is listed in 1935 as closed with 829 seats…

A beautiful movie palace from the 1920s located in downtown Saginaw with a wonderful sound rising out of the pit theater organ. Originally operated by the Butterfield chain, this theater…

The theater opened in 1956 and was run by R.J. Ashmun. The drive-in has since been demolished and the marquee is preserved on a building across the street…

The Wolverine Theater dates back to at least 1920 when a Moller organ was installed. The building is currently home to a gym…