Loew's Ames Theater
4215 North Main Street,
Dayton,
OH
45415
4215 North Main Street,
Dayton,
OH
45415
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Pretty plain,dull looking theatre to me .No jazz.Thanks for the pictures.
More current photo of the Loew’s Ames Theatre, click to enlarge.
http://www.landmarkhunter.com/197871-ames-theater/
They most likely bought a lot of those colors paint and had to use them somewhere.Just a joke!Maybe.“MOD MOTIF”.
“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.
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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.
Chuck1231 does not provide contact information, so I must post this publicly here.
Chuck, while I applaud your enthusiasm for posting at this site, quite a few of your posts have contained errors…errors that could be corrected by a bit of additional research.
Chuck or anyone else may contact me (see my profile) and I will be happy to share with you some of my sources and search techniques. They aren’t perfect, but they can catch some of the problems.
We all benefit when correct data is posted here. Please everyone try to be as accurate as possible with your information.
Now, back to a discussion of the Loew’s Ames.
Thanks Ken, As I was told to just ignore his crude comments and continue as I always have.
That’s a little harsh, isn’t it? I’ve made plenty of errors myself. No one is getting paid to do this.
Wow, an apology from Chuck for an error! Maybe there’s hope he will apologize for the countless other errors he’s made. Better yet, one can hope he will stop posting altogether.
The address that I listed on 3/9/06 was for the Loew’s Theatre in downtown Dayton. Sorry for the error.
Wrong Theatre page. That belongs on the Loew’s Page.
/theaters/18663/
I think this is the theater:
http://tinyurl.com/yk5xn5l
Nice 1986 photo,I do not know how it looked inside, but outside it wasn’t very attractive.
1986 photo of the Loew’s Ames Theatre.
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The Northtown Shopping Center is located at 4215 North Main Street in Dayton, Ohio. If you go to MapQuest and enter that address and then magnify the results to the largest image before running out of images you will see the Ames Theater Building as the light blue roofed rectangular building with a triangular front just south of the Northtown Shopping Center and “across the driveway” that separates the Ames' parking from the shopping centers. Also it is the large building just north of Melford Ave. My grandfather was manager of the Ames in the early 1950’s and I worked there taking tickets and selling popcorn, etc. My dad also modified the theater to demonstrate a single camera method for 3D movies to Arch Oboler, producer of Bwana Devil, the first 3D movie in color.
That may be true about there being a Loews at 125 N. Main Street but the original description of this theater is that it was across a driveway from Northtown Shopping Center — very far from downtown!
So the address could never have been 125. This location is quite a bit north of Siebenthaler Avenue and up very close to Forest Park Shopping Center, the site of a former amusement park.
There was a Loew’s Theater in downtown Dayton at 125 N. Main. The theater was very big complete with a balcony and as I recall, the projection booth was located BENEATH the balcony. I remember seeing films such as The Ten Commandments and other epics there. The theater was closed and demolished in the 60’s to make way for a parking lot but a building was erected later I think. The only theater left open after the closing of the Loew’s was the Victory which was across the street.
There is one thing that is positvely a fact, sorry to tell you Chuck1231. There is NO way possible for the address of this theater to have ever been at 125 N. Main Street! Maybe 1255 or something else, but not 125. It is the current home of Click Camera shops.
I found an address of 125 North Main Street for this theatre.
Loew’s bought this theatre in October 1966, according to the company’s 1966 annual report.
Jerry Young from Dayton moved to Florida? Owned to Middletown Theatre and went to UATC Movies at Clearwater ?? If so please email me it is very important!!!!