Westown Theater
15225 Wyoming Street,
Detroit,
MI
48238
15225 Wyoming Street,
Detroit,
MI
48238
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The Westown Theater opened November 25, 1936, designed in a French-Moderne hybrid by Detroit-based Charles N. Agree, and featured an unusually extravagant marquee for a neighborhood house.
The theater could seat over 2,000, and was part of the Wisper-Wetsman Theaters chain, costing nearly $250,000 to construct.
On its opening night, guests were shown footage of themselves entering the theater before the main feature, a gimmick often used for downtown palaces' opening nights, but unusual for a neighborhood theater.
The Westown Theater closed in 1964, and has since been demolished.
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Here is a 1936 photo:
http://tinyurl.com/3b3h4d
On viewing an old 1939 industrial/sales film—made by the Jam Handy company in Detroit—on Archive.org, actor James Dunn walks past and stops in front of a gorgeous old deco theatre. After some detective work, I discovered the theatre is this one—the 2000 seat Westown. The giveaway was a sign above the entrance directing patrons to park in a lot on Fenkell Avenue—obviously around the corner—also the letter “W” above the poster frame.
https://archive.org/details/1981_Face_in_the_Mirror_I_Wonder_The_M00878_00_00_55_00
November 25th, 1936 grand opening ad in photo section.