Shaker Square Cinemas
13116 Shaker Square,
Cleveland,
OH
44120
13116 Shaker Square,
Cleveland,
OH
44120
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Located in historic Shaker Square on the SW quadrant, the renovated Art Moderne style theater built in 1937, now houses a mix of first-run Hollywood fare, foreign and independent films.
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1983 night photo of the Colony Theater.
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Amother 1983 photo of the Colony Theatre.
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another 1984 night photo of the Colony Theater.
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1981 Photo
It was indeed the Colony Art Theater for while: Here’s an ad for the showing of “La Dolce Vita:"
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Wish this cinema would never have been made into 6. Was a great theater in its day has the colony. Cleveland Cinemas should have kept the Colony name
Here’s a recent exterior picture showing that the entrance has changed very little since the theater was known as the Colony:
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According to the weblink in the second comment at top, the Shaker Square was renovated in 1999.
Geez,Chuck.I don’t know if even IMPRESSIVE is the right word.what a Theatre!
This opened as Colony on December 27th, 1937
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I worked this theater as part time Assistant Manager of The Colony in 1950. It was a beautiful place to work. Most of my time was spent at the Uptown Theater on St. Clair Ave. in Cleveland. hehrman28
Three photos of the Shaker Square Cinemas can be seen here, on the web site of Mesbur+Smith Architects, the Toronto firm responsible for the 1999 renovations.
The auditorium had been carved into five screens in 1983, and the original lobby had been destroyed by a fire at some point. When Cleveland Cinemas took control of the house in 1999, the earlier multiplexing was torn out and replaced with a new six-screen configuration with stadium seating, and John Eberson’s original Art Moderne lobby design was restored.