Richmond Theatre
5144 Mayfield Road,
Lyndhurst,
OH
44124
5144 Mayfield Road,
Lyndhurst,
OH
44124
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The Richmond Theatre opened in the late-1940’s as a single screen. All seating was located on a single sloping floor. It was triplexed in the 1980’s under Loews ownership. The theatre closed in the early-1990’s.
A DSW Shoe Warehouse store then occupied the building, with the marquee being used to identify the shoe store. It was demolished in early-2009.
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In 1955 the Richmond Theater had 1,800 seats.
Some 1982 photos of the Loew’s Richmond Theatre.
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1982 night photo
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Another 1982 night photo
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Some more 1982 photos of the Loew’s Richmond Theatre.
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Another 1982 photo
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Another 1982 night photo
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A 2006 photo as the DSW shoe wharehouse.
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Theater has been down for some months now — clearing was to create a parking lot and visibility from Mayfield Road for an Aldi’s grocery store erected at the rear of the property. Store opened in August/September 2009.
The header needs to be updated to closed/demolished
I only went to this theater one time. My dad took me here to see Freddy’s Dead: The Final Nightmare, in 1991 (I was about 9). I think it closed down not too long after.
It was a Designer Show Warehouse for years. Then in 2009 half of this plaza was torn down (including DSW) and became a parking lot for the Aldi’s grocery store they built in the back.
As a kid I went to the comic book shop Northcoast Nostalgia which was pretty much next door all the time (this is about 1994-1998). Since the building it was in was torn down as well, Northcoast moved its operations not very far at all; it is now in the plaza in the back adjacent to the Aldi’s.
The Google street view for this theater is on the wrong side of the street and too far East. This is the correct streetview: http://g.co/maps/j72ka (5104 Mayfield Rd, Lyndhurst, Ohio). The site is a parking lot.
nice until tripled i bet,just like my old Theatre NATIONAL HILLS.
Actually, as far as triplexing goes, this one was not insensitive; two small screening rooms were built in the back section of the main floor, left and right of the entranceway to what became the main center screen. These extended down about a third or half-way into the original auditorium.(see auditorium photo). But aside from that, the center theater very much resembled the the original auditorium; those plaster curls and the big screen were retained. (A similar triplexing was carried out in the original auditorium of the Lake in Euclid). The Richmond was a very large theater for a suburban house and probably would not have survived as long as it did without the triplexing.
This was one the theaters I went to frequently in the 1960s. “Goldfinger” played for many weeks there; I also remember seeing “Thunderball” and “Wait Until Dark” at the Richmond.