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Home » Theater Guide » Location » United States » Idaho » Lewiston » Roxy Theater

Roxy Theater

Lewiston, ID
714 Main Street
, Lewiston, ID 83501 United States
(map)
Status: Closed
Screens: Single Screen
Style: Art Moderne
Function: Youth Center
Seats: 497
Chain: Unknown
Architect: Unknown
Firm: Unknown
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This appears to be a two-story turn of the century brick commercial bulding that was turned into a theater in the '40s or '50s. The ground floor has a facade done in the stacked stone (thin slabs of multicolored sandstone, etc.) that was popular back then. The marquee is still up, but has no neon left. It's been painted white, so it's hard to tell what the design may have been. It is now the Roxy Youth and Activity Center, which I got the impression was church-affiliated.
Contributed by Seth Gaines

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The address for the Roxy Theatre is 714 Main St., Lewiston, Id. 83501
posted by Chuck1231 on Jul 1, 2004 at 9:29pm
It is amazing how many theatres are named ROXY as inspired by the once famous name of the New York City panjandrum of the movie palace: Samuel Lionel Rothapfel = "Roxy". His namesake was the famous, 6000-seat ROXY THEATRE in NYC, which outlasted him by only 25 years when it was demolished in 1960. The whole story is nowhere better told than in that landmark book "The Best Remaining Seats: The Story of the Golden Age of the Movie Palace" by the late Ben M. Hall in 1961. Various editions of it are sometimes available from www.Amazon.com, but only the first edition contains the color plates, though many libraries have, or can order, copies of it. The Theatre Historical Soc. of America ( www.HistoricTheatres.org ) was his legacy, and they have much data/photos of the ROXY..
posted by Jim Rankin on Jul 2, 2004 at 6:13am
A photo of the Roxy Theatre, Liewiston, Id.
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y147/Chuck1231/Idaho%20Theatres/LibertyTheatreLewistonId.jpg
posted by Chuck1231 on Jul 26, 2005 at 4:00pm
Here is a photo of the Roxy by Seth Gaines:
http://tinyurl.com/2mutk2
posted by ken mc on Nov 2, 2007 at 11:52am
Nice photo. You really are desperate. I guess that you emptied all of your other sources.

posted by Lost Memory on Nov 2, 2007 at 11:57am
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