Great Northern Theatre
26315 Brook Park Road,
North Olmsted,
OH
44070
26315 Brook Park Road,
North Olmsted,
OH
44070
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The Great Northern Theatre opened in the 1966 in the Great Northen Plaza in North Olmsted. It was originally a single screen theatre. The screen was a curved 90-foot Cinemascope type. After National Theatre Corporation took over the Great Northern from RKO Stanley Warner, the original auditorium was quadded, and later on, three additional screens were added behind the original auditorium, which included the Cleveland area’s first THX sound system.
Regal Cinemas later took over Great Northern when they bought out National, and the theatres closed around 1995, shortly after Regal opened a new eight-plex in nearby Westlake. A Dunham’s Sporting Goods store now occupies the former Great Northern Theatre.
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I will scan some of the pictures of Great Northern Theatre and send. Sometimes my scanner acts up so it may be a week or so.
This was a great theater to see films. Too bad Regal had to close it
Every great SF premiere between 1984 and 1997, I saw at Great Northern, all the Star Trek films, etc. There was a Mr. Bulky’s al most next door, and we’d buy our munchies there, and sneak them in…sometimes, we’d go to the Finast supermarket across the parking lot-I remember smuggling a pound of keilbasa and a one liter bottle of Coke in to see “STAR TREK IV:THE VOYAGE HOME”.
The theater’s page on Roland Lataille’s Cinerama site which includes an interior image:
http://cinerama.topcities.com/great_northern.htm
RKO Stanley-Warner also considered installing Cinerama at the Vogue in Cleveland.
The architect of this theater was quite possibly, if not definitely, Drew Eberson. The archive of his and his father’s work indicates he drew up plans for a theater at the Great Northern Shopping Center in 1965 for Stanley-Warner which was the original operator.
March 24th, 1966 ad is at View link
Multiplex opening ad from December 16th, 1982 (With Garfield Mall Movies) at View link
Photos added for Great Northern. One from ‘Cleveland Press’ article published in 1966; better quality picture at: http://cinerama.topcities.com/great_northern.htm
Some black/white from 1973 during St. Richards Church services at theatre (was still single screened) due to church renovations.
Four color pictures taken on Oct. 23, 2000 day after theatre closed which by that time was a Seven screened theatre complex. Four of the Seven theatres were in the original auditorium. The remaining Three were in newer construction in the rear.
I have more pictures if any interest.
This is the way movie theaters should be build. NOt this crazy multi theater they do now. And I hate that they paly all the movies in every theater now
Right on riausche.