Lorain Theater
4601 Lorain Avenue,
Cleveland,
OH
4601 Lorain Avenue,
Cleveland,
OH
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Thanks for the photos
1983 photo of the Lorain Theatre.
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19963 photo of the Lorain Theatre.
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As Toby pointed out on Feb 4, 2006, this was also known as the Denmark Theater showing adult movies. Here is a 1976 ad.
From what I found the Lorain Opened in 1935 and closed in 1961 as a regular motion picture theatre.
If anyone has photos of any of the theatres that were on Lorain Ave, I’d love to see them.
Yes, you are right! I was thinking of the Variety Theater at West 117th and Lorain. I grew up right in that area (my childhood house was on Fortune Ave., a 5 minute walk from that location).
The theatre that was taken over by “Freedom Academy” (anti-busing advocate Norbert Denerll’s former private school) as a performing arts school was the Variety, at West 117th and Lorain. The former Lorain Theatre, I think, became a porn house (the “Denmark Adult Theatre”) in the late 1960’s/early 1970’s. I do recall an adult theatre in that vicinity in the 1970’s, that closed by the late 1970’s after former mayor Ralph Perk was on his own “anti-pornography” crusade that eventually cost him the 1977 mayoral election. Afterward I think a secondhand furniture store occupied the former theatre.
I believe the building was taken over by a local private high school who used it as classroom space. I remember seeing “Max Dugan Returns” there in the late 70s or early 80s. I think it was the first movie I ever saw at a theater!