Westview 10 Cinemas

6023-6026 Baltimore National Pike,
Baltimore, MD 21228

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Tinseltoes
Tinseltoes on July 23, 2012 at 12:43 pm

Described in this 1966 trade article: Boxoffice

Holden_Pike
Holden_Pike on August 10, 2011 at 6:17 pm

For anybody nostalgic or curious, the Westview can be seen on film in a scene from Barry Levinson’s TIN MEN (1987).

It comes at about the thirty-five minute mark, where the characters played by Richard Dreyfuss and Danny DeVito exit the nightclub to take their fight outside. That exterior is the Westview, anyone who ever visited will recognize it instantly. You see them walk out the front door, under the overhang, past the addition (made up as a coffee shop) and into the parking lot. Once there you can see the Edmundson’s Drive-In screen in the background, playing a Western.

At least it was preserved in this small way!

Holden_Pike
Holden_Pike on August 10, 2011 at 5:50 pm

Beautiful theatre, the first one I ever fell in love with. Saw hundreds and hundred of movies there from 1977 to 1997, from the ages of seven to twenty-seven.

There were amazing chandeliers in the lobby, and the faux Deco style really made it feel timeless.

The Edmondsun Drive-In was next to the Westview, at the bottom of a hill. The drive-in opened in 1954 and closed before the hardtop cinema, becoming a Home Depot after it closed in 1991. The beautiful Westview was completely demolished, and a Circuit City erected in it’s spot.

Truly the end of an era.