Palms Theater
Broadway Boulevard,
Dunedin,
FL
34698
Broadway Boulevard,
Dunedin,
FL
34698
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Boxoffice of January 1, 1949, said that the Palms Theatre had opened recently. It had been built for Clayton Bennett, and was being operated by his son Gordon. The Palms was sold to Edward Eckert in 1951, as reported in various issues of Boxoffice in June and July that year.
Eckert was still operating the house at least as late as 1962, when he posed for a photo (upper right, with the marquee of the Palms in the background) that appeared in Boxoffice of March 5. The caption mistakenly dates Eckert’s purchase of the Palms to 1949.
Not sure. Since the article was from 1963, it is entirely possible (and probably likely) that the bank is gone as well.
I haven’t been down to Dunedin for a few years now, but all the times I’ve driven on Broadway and never knew a theater had once been there. Can’t recall a bank being there, what is it’s name?