Loew's Ames Theater

4215 North Main Street,
Dayton, OH 45415

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Loew's Ames Theater

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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.

Contributed by Jerry Young

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kencmcintyre
kencmcintyre on March 22, 2010 at 9:05 am

That’s a little harsh, isn’t it? I’ve made plenty of errors myself. No one is getting paid to do this.

Chuck1231
Chuck1231 on March 22, 2010 at 1:24 pm

Thanks Ken, As I was told to just ignore his crude comments and continue as I always have.

Mark_L
Mark_L on March 22, 2010 at 1:54 pm

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Now, back to a discussion of the Loew’s Ames.

Chuck1231
Chuck1231 on March 23, 2010 at 12:09 am

Mark, you can send me an email, go to the membership page and click email by my name and you can send me an email.

CSWalczak
CSWalczak on September 19, 2010 at 12:43 am

“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.

TLSLOEWS
TLSLOEWS on September 25, 2010 at 9:48 pm

They most likely bought a lot of those colors paint and had to use them somewhere.Just a joke!Maybe.“MOD MOTIF”.

Chuck1231
Chuck1231 on November 14, 2010 at 12:39 am

More current photo of the Loew’s Ames Theatre, click to enlarge.
http://www.landmarkhunter.com/197871-ames-theater/

Mike Rogers
Mike Rogers on January 13, 2011 at 5:57 pm

Pretty plain,dull looking theatre to me .No jazz.Thanks for the pictures.

MovieMad52
MovieMad52 on December 23, 2012 at 12:38 pm

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.

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