Gloria Theater

The Gloria was located at 395 Court Street, and had a reported 594 seats.

Recently was inside the Key Food. Facing in from the street the right hand side of the store was the theater. The right wall, running from front to back, has breaks in it where you can see the moulding slope--as the floor would have done in its theater days. At the front of the store hanging down from the entrance area is what appears to be the old projection booth, which now serves as an office.

This theater is one of the few "small" theater's that has an organ listed for it. On the listing, it shows a Kramer organ being installed in this theater in 1924. Maybe that would help to date the opening of this theater.

The certificate of occupancy for this building was issued on January 23, 1925. It was a newly constructed building. Purpose of building: motion picture house with 593 seats.

The Gloria Theater has now been demolished. An apartment block has been recently built on the site. Construction work is not quite completed (as at June 2006) and it looks like the decorative stonework around the former theater's entrance has been retained and will form the entrance to the apartments.

Three photographs I took in June 2006 of the decorative entrance arch of the former Gloria Theater. This is all that remains after the building was demolished and an apartment block was built on the site of the theatre:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/kencta/199850316/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/kencta/199850872/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/kencta/199851483/