Village Theater

Woodmere, OH

27079 Chagrin Boulevard

, Woodmere, OH 44122 United States

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Status:	Closed
Screens:	Single Screen
Style:	Unknown

Function:	Furniture Showroom
Seats:	Unknown
Chain:	Unknown

Architect:	Unknown
Firm:	Unknown

Opened around 1975 as Loew's Village, this theater was located on the north side of Chagrin Boulevard at the western end of a strip mall located near the junction of Chagrin with I-271. It was of a simple, modern design. Its lobby was faux rustic in style; the auditorium was large, done in shades of brown and orange, with seats arranged in the "continental" style (i.e., no center aisle).

For about the first ten years of its life, this was a fairly prestigious first run house, in the era when Loew's took over a number of former outlying neighborhood theaters in the greater Cleveland area suburbs and opened a few new ones like this one after its classic downtown and other near-central city operations ceased. It was one of the few theaters that showed the Russian version of "War and Peace" on a two-part, reserved performance basis.

The theater closed in the late 1980s or early '90s and may have been twined or otherwise multiplexed prior to closure. An Ethan Allen furniture store now occupies the structure.

Contributed by Christopher Walczak

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The Village was built and operated by a local chain-lette run by Bert Lefkowitz called Community Circuit Theatres in about 1968 or 69. They also had the Richmond, Riverside, Berea, Showplace and Cedar-Lee. The Village was equipped with 70mm-mag stereo and was a roadshow house following the closure of the downtown theatres. I was there once (though I forget for what movie) and I recall it appeared to have about 800 seats. Loew's bought out Community Circuit (except for the Cedar-Lee which Lefkowitz leased to Jonathan Forman) about 1975 in one of their erratic bursts of expansion and contraction in the Cleveland area.

posted by dave-bronx on Jan 22, 2006 at 9:06am

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