Crescent Theatre
217 Fifth Avenue North,
Nashville,
TN
37219
217 Fifth Avenue North,
Nashville,
TN
37219
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The photo posted on this page is the wrong Crescent.The theatre in the photo was at 415 Church Street.
Listen to an older guy here. There were two different Crescents in the block of Fifth Avenue between Church and Union. Both on the west side. The first was up toward Union at 233 and appears in some old postcards of the neighborhood. This theater opened about 1908 or 1909 and was later about 1910 renamed the Elite, one of four Elites we had over the years. Then there was one starting about 1915 down closer to Church Street at 217 in a building that still stands. Nashville Old Timer Delmas Jenkins told me this one was formed by combining two smaller “twin” theaters that used the same box office, which is to say ticket booth. This one was still listed in 1924 but was gone by 1926. The only connection between these and the re-naming of the New Princess was that all were owned by Crescent Amusement Co.
Another site lists this Crescent Theatre as operating 1921-1928.Of course these dates could be wrong.
Listed at this address now: Arts Company Nashville, Eastway Lock and Key, and Gibbell Hayes Partners.
Lost Memorys post of 9-10-06 is correct information.
You are right CWalczac C.T. just updated this info, thanks again to them.They do a great job.They sent me an e-mail confirming these changes.
It’s some of comments that are in the wrong place, as the headnote indicates that the theater was not operating after 1925 and locates it correctly on Fifth Avenue. It might be a good idea if the headnote included something such as “This Crescent should not be confused with the later Loew’s Crescent which was on Church Street.”
Thanks for the up date C.T. The pictures links above are not the 1st. Crescent on 5th. ave. They are of the Crescent on 415 Church St.Known as the LOEWS CRESCENT at that time. I know this info is correct because I was the Asst. Manager at that time.Met my wife to be there also.
The info on this page is wrong this Crescent theater is long gone at 217 Fifth Ave.The Crescent at 415 church street was aka the Princess, Crescent and Loews Crescent, also Crescent Cineramia for a while. C.T. has a page calles Loews Crescent that has much better info.Needs to be updated.
It was on Church Street – at the end – down by the L&C Tower.
It was a Loews theatre before it was a Martin Theatre. This was Nashville’s only Cinerama Theater, but Cinerama didn’t last very long because of expense of production and lack of commercial appeal. Mary Poppins played there as did Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? And an off-duty cop shut the movie down and arrested the owner during the movie’s first night. The Baptists picketed outside. All because of the use of the word, “Goddamn.”