Roxy Theater
521 Washington Avenue,
Bay City,
MI
48708
521 Washington Avenue,
Bay City,
MI
48708
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The Roxy Theater opened in 1906 as the Alvarado Theater. In 1913 it briefly became the Lyric Theater. In 1914 the name was changed again to the Grotto Theater. In 1926 it was known as the Temple Theater. In the late 1930’s the name was changed to the Roxy Theater. The Roxy closed around 1958. Click the link below for a photo of the Roxy Theater. The movie on the marquee is dated at 1939.
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Lost Memory
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The Roxy was owned and operated by Harold Bernstein who also had a small chain of theatres known as Bernstein Thetre.
Alvarado Theatre 1906-1914
Lyric Theatre 1913-1914
Grotto Theatre 1914-1925
Temple Theatre 1925-1942
Roxy Theatre 1942-1958 ?
Information from the Bay Journal.
I saw those dates from the Bay Journal before I added this theater. The marquee in the photo says Roxy. The Gorilla movie is dated at 1939 and the Kentucky Moonshine movie is dated at 1938. If the theater was renamed to Roxy in 1942, that would mean that it ran 3-4 year old movies.
lostmemory, it shows the theatre as a subrun house but you wouldn’t think that it would take 3 or 4 years to play a movie after its release. Maybe someone out there knows the true dates.
A Wurlitzer organ, opus 1771, was installed in the Temple Theatre on 10/27/1927. This data supports the name history as stated above.
I suspect that the Roxy was showing a reissue double bill at the time, and that the photo could have been snapped any time after the 1942 name change. 20th-Fox had a very active reissue program in the 1940s, when there were several product shortages due to the war effort and to Hollywood labor problems.
More photos can be seen here.
When I was about 9yrs old I saw Roy Rogers and his horse Trigger live on the Roxy stage. I have a picture. will post when I can.