Loew's State Theatre

Hanns Teichert’s Boxoffice article about the State can be seen here.

The State Theatre (its original name) was opened in 1950, before November 4, when an article about it, written by decorator Haans Teichert, appeared in Boxoffice Magazine. Designed by Cleveland architect George Ebeling and decorated by Rex M. Davis of the Teichert Studios, the State Theatre was originally operated by the Cuyahoga Falls Amusement Company, headed by Moe Horowitz of the Washington circuit. The Loew’s circuit did not acquire the State until 1968, according to an item in Boxoffice, March 17, 1969.

George Ebeling designed numerous theaters in Ohio between the late 1930s and his sudden death in 1951, and was for a time a member of the advisory board of Boxoffice Magazine’s Modern Theatre Planning Institute. Among theaters he designed were the Lake Theatre in Painesville, the Yorktown Theatre in Cleveland, the Mapletown Theatre in Cleveland, and the Mentor Drive-In at Mentor, Ohio.

1982 photo of the Loew’s State Theatre.
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I think the Loews Falls was closer to downtown Cuyahoga Falls-that theatre, I think, also was advertised as the “Loews New Falls”, then just “Falls”. The Falls Theatre was off Portage Trail, and was an old single screen that once had a Cinemascope screen-I think the Falls closed in the early 1990’s, and is, I think, still in use by a community theater group, but am uncertain offhand.

I think the Loews Falls was closer to downtown Cuyahoga Falls-that theatre, I think, also was advertised as the “Loews New Falls”, then just “Falls”. The Falls Theatre was off Portage Trail, and was an old single screen that once had a Cinemascope screen-I think the Falls closed in the early 1990’s, and is, I think, still in use by a community theater group, but am uncertain offhand.