Loew's Arlington
1800 West Henderson Road,
Columbus,
OH
43220
1800 West Henderson Road,
Columbus,
OH
43220
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Located in northwest Columbus across the street from the affluent Columbus suburb of Upper Arlington, this theatre opened around Christmas of 1966. The chain also opened Loew’s Morse Road in Columbus at the same time.
Loew’s was so proud of this theatre that they featured it in their 1966 annual report:
“The accent is on luxury, comfort, color and modernity in all of Loew’s new Theatres. Each provides acres of free parking, rocking-chair seats, giant 60~foot screen, stereo sound, all-weather air conditioning, art gallery and attractive concession services.
“Each new Loew’s Theatre features an art gallery, in which the works of outstanding local artists are displayed. These galleries attract great interest.”
Originally a 1,200-seat single screen, Loew’s Arlington was later twinned.
In January 1990, the Columbus zoning board approved construction of an addition containing a third screen, but I don’t know if it was ever built. On March 3, 1993, a Columbus Dispatch article reported that the theatre was demolished in order to build a Sears Hardware store, which still stands on this site.
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Ron Newman
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Loew’s Arlington was not located in Upper Arlington. It was located in the City of Columbus. Annexation maps from uarchives.org show the Arlington city limits ending on the south side of Henderson Road. The north side of Henderson, including the shopping center with the theatre, is actually in Columbus. These boundaries still exist today.
Theatre was to be twinned shortly after Easter, 1974. Each room was to seat 550. Cost of twinning was to be $70,000, and construction was to take approximately 30 days.
Thanks Mark L
The zip code for the former Loew’s Arlington was 43220 and the postal service lists the address as Columbus, Oh. So the header needsd to be changed to Columbus and the Zip Code added.
In this case, the theatre is in Columbus, BUT the 43220 zip code also includes the north part of the city of Upper Arlington, where I live. It also includes some unincorporated/township areas.
Things can get very confusing in the northwest part of Columbus. You might live in Columbus proper, go to school in the Worthington School district, and have a mailing address of Dublin. It really takes careful study of the local maps to really figure things out.
Thanks for the correct, MarkL. So Loew’s named this theatre after a place it was next to rather than a place where was actually located?
You are only talking about a distance here of about 100 yards…unless you really looked at the maps, you wouldn’t know the difference. If you would ask someone to circle an area of a map that would be considered Arlington, they include this shopping center. If I didn’t live here, I certainly wouldn’t have noticed the difference. As I said above, the city boundaries here get very, very confusing.
I’ll ask CinemaTreasures to fix the Description header appropriately.
See 007 was on the Marquee.Loew’s had some nice buildings.
Saw “Amadeus” here.