Inglewood Theater
3407 Gallatin Road,
Nashville,
TN
37216
3407 Gallatin Road,
Nashville,
TN
37216
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Thanks kiddmo,you are right it was the Joywood Salvage store before being torn down.
My grandmother and I were the last patrons of the Inglewood Theatre in 1977. I remember it was cold and drizzling that day. The last movie to play at Inglewood Theatre playing was Poco (Little Lost Dog). I was 10 and was hooked on Benji and Herbie Love Bug movies, Poco was sort of a Benji rip off. When we walked in we noticed it was completely empty. The manager told us they were closing forever that day and this was the last movie. I will always remember walking out with the manager locking the door behind us thinking I was the last customer. I’ll always remember spending every weekend with my grandparents and going to that old theatre.
I believe after the theatre shutdown it became a Joywood Furniture store and then a junk store until they tore it down.
What Big Theatre,sure that picture isn’t from TEXAS!!!!LOL.
Thanks cudaviper,thats the same photo.
found and image of it here,
http://www.flickr.com/photos/maincourse/324429080/
Thanks GM I would if I could, I just ran across this link while looking at photos of another theatre,and I do not remember which one.I also have some photos of other theatres to post but I do not have a scanner.I will have to get someone to scan them for me and post.If you check out photos of Tennessee Theatres you may run across this link and click on it and you may find it or others.Good luck.Enjoyed you posts on the other theatres you have commented on.
TLS…. could you post the link you speak of from above, Tenneessee Cinemas link? Thanks.
There is a photo of this theatre on Tennessee Cinemas link,showing the theatre just before opening in 1950.
The bowling alley was in a building back behind the theater.
The Inglewood also had a party room. I went to a birthday party there one time. I believe the Cry Room was on one side of the center aisle and the Party Room was on the other.
Tom Sharp, later a councilman, had a drug store just a door or two from the Inglewood. I believe the theater was built on the site of the old Creamland ice cream shop.
I was amused when the building became Joywood Salvage as the Joywood community was miles from there over near Trinity Lane.
I remember seeing Woodstock at the Inglewood, I was the only person in the whole audience til near the end. Many movies I remember there, ghost and mr. chicken too…ha. Ah, the cry room, I remember that and went in once just to see what it was like. Very strange indeed. Also I recall the owner of Joywood Salvage told me that the doors were solid brass, very classy. Sad it is gone like so many others. We had it made and didn’t realize it.
Thanks.That would be great!
Drug store is shuttered, and the Inglewood Bowling Alley is still there tisloews, although shuttered and fenced. Will get the Loews article to you, I owe you, soon.
You are right Joe it did have those rooms and I thought it was a pretty funny looking theatre on the outside,too bad no one has any photos I went there many times as a kid living in East Nashville.The site is a drug store now I believe,and the Inglewood Bowl behind it has been closed for years and torn down to I think.
Boxoffice of May 6, 1950, said that the Inglewood Theatre had recently been opened by Crescent Amusement Company. Few details about the theater were given, other than that it had both a cry room and a party room, and that it would be the only suburban Nashville house to present daily matinees.
After the INGLEWOOD theatre closed it was a salvage store from many years before being torn down.
Adding to the above comment the Melrose and Bellemeade were built in the early 40,s the Inglewood about 10 years later.
The Inglewood Theater was the only house in Nashville that had a “Cry” room for babys. It was not a sister theater to the Melrose or Bellmeade they looked very different.IT mave have been build by Crescent Amusement Company though any info out there.
Yes, I did understand the small drug store you mentioned, MarkE, that was attached to the Inglewood. I was just referring to the Eckerd that sits empty. I have been the guest organist at your childhood church, Ingleweood MC, many times as well, and am the current organist at a church just a mile further towards downtown. Enjoyed your recollections. ;–)
Yes, time marches on. It reminds me of a scene in a movie I saw first at the Inglewood – “Time Machine” in 1960. The world changed through thousands of years as he watched from his seat in the bizare machine.
By “drug store”, I was referring to the original drug store that was in the same building as the theatre. As Danny52 said, the whole building was razed and an Eckerd was built there. Is it closed now? I guess 3 drug stores on one block was too much! I was saddened too to see the movie rental store go into the church parking lot. That’s the church I used to go to as a child.
I too, MarkE, attended many a Saturday Matinee at the Inglewood in the 60s. If you’ve been past the site lately, you’ll know the Inglewood Bowling Alley is shuttered, and the Drug Store, which replaced the Inglewood Theatre, is also shuttered. Time marches on I guess?
I have fond memories of going to the “Inglewood” every Fri. night and sometimes on Saturdays when I was a kid in the 60s. I think I got my love of movies from that place. There was an enclosed room in the back right of the theatre with a glass front. It was called the “Cry Room”. I would often leave the theatre and go to the drug store next door and shop for comic books. I wish I’d kept those original Spiderman books! And, yes, the Inglewood Bowling alley was directly behind the theatre.
In 1955 the Inglewood Theater had 500 seats.
Pinslasher, the Inglewood Theatre in Inglewood, a surburb of Nashville, TN, was on Gallatin Road, directely in front of the Inglewood Bowling Lanes, next to the Inglewood Methodist Church. The Bowling Lanes remain but are closed, fenced off, and boarded up.
The theatre had a drug store occupying the only other store front area in the front of the building. It was a free-standing theatre and had a great Party room upstairs with a large glass window which allowed auditorium viewing.
I think the Melrose and Belle Meade theatre favored one another more so than the Inglewood which had a futuristic outward appearance with a tall tower and the words INGLEWOOD vertically displayed.
Saw a Jerry Lewis film there as a kid with a cross-town, but was way out of my territory so I didn’t ever go back…I don’t think.
There are some excellent photos of the exterior of the Inglewood Theatre at the Metro Archives in Green Hills. The theatre, at least on the outside, bore no resemblance to either the Belle Meade or the Melrose. Rather, it was more of that futuristic googly design that was popular in the 1950s through the early 1960s, very unique and very exciting!