Dreamland Theater
1930 Broadway,
Lorain,
OH
44052
1930 Broadway,
Lorain,
OH
44052
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This was a neighborhood theater on Broadway which now serves as a church.
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G H Jackson
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The aka names of this theater have me confused. The Lorain public library states the following, “As of March 28, 1944 Lorain has eight movie theaters in operation: Palace, Ohio, Tivoli, Dreamland, Lorain, Pearl, Grove and Elvira”. This theater has three of those eight names.
Anyway, the library mentions a fire at the Dreamland theater. “On August 18, 1947 the Dreamland Theater, 19th and Broadway, is destroyed by fire”. I don’t know what they mean by destroyed because,
“On April 7, 1948 The Dreamland Theater reopens after the fire”.
Here is the link to the library website:
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Details in the Film Daily Yearbook, 1950;
Ohio Theater, 547 Broadway. 712 seats.
Dreamland Theatre, 1930 Broadway. 800 seats
Lorain Theatre, 3020 Pearl Street. 725 seats
G H Jackson;
Can you check out the street number on the address of the current church use of the building and let us know please.
There is a Church at 1930 Broadway.
Iglesia Pentecostal Church
1930 Broadway
Lorain, OH 44052
Tel: (440) 245-2772
I think that these are three different theaters.
Thanks for clearing that up lostmemory;
I will tell the webmaster’s to change the name on this posting and add the other theatres
Good work Ken. Thanks for adding the other Lorain theaters.
The seating capacity for the old pre-fire Dreamland Theatre was 350 as stated in Film Daily Yearbook, 1941.
I was in the Dreamland a few times as a kid. It was a subrun house not in a good area. It was later called the V-L (dont know what the initials ever meant) Cinema in the 60’s and played foreign/independent films for awhile then went the porn route. Not sure when it closed, probably in the 70’s.
The original Dreamland Theatre opened in 1930 and what I found on the rebuilt Dreamland it stated it closed in 1971.
The Dreamland was my neighborhood theater; I lived a block and a half from it. In 1965, it was purchased by Vic-Lin Enterprises, refurbished, and re-opened as the V-L Cinema. For about a year, it showed English-language films from Monday to Saturday, and Spanish-language films, like the masked wrestler movies, on Sunday. In ‘67, it changed formats, showing porno movies from Monday to Saturday, and Spanish films on Sunday. In '84 or'85, the theater was closed, re-opening as a Hispanic Pentacostal church, which, as far as I know, it still is. FTR, the Dreamland did show first-run films at times.