Westside Theatre
64 Westbank Expressway,
Gretna,
LA
70053
64 Westbank Expressway,
Gretna,
LA
70053
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Wonder why the guy (Stephen)that wrote the man article thought Westside Theater now “houses a church”?
Grand opening ad posted.
1967 photo added courtesy Mike Tammy Cerigny Payne, via the Westbank- Back in the day~ Facebook page. Gretna Fair Grounds OTB & Casino is at that location and address now.
It was like May or June of 1984.
Wow that must been around mid 1983 or early 1984 after the mall opened .
It closed at almost exactly the same time the Belle Promenade Cinema opened, which I don’t think was coincidental.
I thought it closed down because no one ever went there. On the day that Rocky 2 opened in 1979 I watched the matinee surrounded by three other customers. Your comment surprises me because the big controversy back then was the nearby Shakey’s pizza place which was an attraction for underage juveniles with fake IDs to purchase beer, get drunk and act like jerks.
Westside Theater was located in Westside Shopping Center South. It, and what was once a supermarket next to it, have been turned into an off-track betting parlor by enclosing the alley between the two.
I went to school with the son of the owners. According to him the theater was shut down because the shopping center didn’t like the ‘crowd’ it attracted.