Loew's Ames Theater
4215 North Main Street,
Dayton,
OH
45415
4215 North Main Street,
Dayton,
OH
45415
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This beautiful neighborhood theater opened in 1949, across a driveway from the Northtown shopping center on North Main Street, in Dayton. It was opened by an independent operator and ran the theater until around 1967, when, as the story goes, the theater was sold away from his family due to the marriage of the son who married outside the religion.
The theater was bought by Loew’s and they remodeled the theater in a green, purple and blue motif. The theater played big first runs and had exclusive Dayton runs of “The Graduate” and “Romeo and Juliet”, to name a few. Loew’s then split it by putting a wall down the middle of the auditorium for the twin, leaving the small screens at the front of two narrow auditoriums.
Loew’s seems to have lost faith in the operation and turned the theater sub run at an 80 cent admission. In 1986, Loew’s closed this theater, and it became a camera shop.
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“Green, purple, and blue motif” ? Apparently then Loew’s used this bilious color scheme for more than one of their theaters then. Loew’s East in the Cleveland suburb of Richmond Heights had the same decor, and if memory serves, the green was more like chartreuse and purple more like lavender. I guess it was “mod” when these color scheme was used, but boy, did it quickly look dated and dumb.
They most likely bought a lot of those colors paint and had to use them somewhere.Just a joke!Maybe.“MOD MOTIF”.
More current photo of the Loew’s Ames Theatre, click to enlarge.
http://www.landmarkhunter.com/197871-ames-theater/
Pretty plain,dull looking theatre to me .No jazz.Thanks for the pictures.
After Loews purchased the theatre, a remodel took place with new seats, curtains and carpet. The color scheme was green, purple and blue. It was pretty jazzed.