Parkview Theater

Joe Vogel on January 17, 2012 at 3:50 pm

I’ve never been to Memphis, but I share vastor’s skepticism about this theater. That building does look like the buildings banks built during the middle decades of the 20th century. The bank branch my parents patronized was built about 1950 with exactly that sort of tall section at the back, which had the vault and safe deposit boxes on the ground floor, and offices above.

The building’s style is clearly not from the mid-1930s, when the Parkview Theatre is supposed to have opened. If there was a theater at this address in the 1930s, it was surely not in the late Midcentury Modern building in that photo.

vastor on July 28, 2011 at 1:08 pm

I am not sure about this theatre. My mother has lived down the street since 1930 and I lived there from 1953-1975. Neither one of us has remembered anything about a Parkview theatre. The lot could have contained a theatre that size but it’s weird that two neighborhood theatres would be right next door to one another. None of the rest were, outside of the older downtown theatres.

gspragin on November 19, 2006 at 9:17 pm

This address is next door to the Luciann Theatre. It is a small one-story building housing the payment office of the local utility company. I will take a photo next time I’m there.