Ridgewood Theater

drivein2001 on January 20, 2011 at 9:03 pm

Update – Went by the Ridgewood Theatre 2 weeks ago. (January 2011).. It sits idle. No action of any kind looks to be going on. Sad. Waste of a Theatre. The Auditorium was so big!!

drivein2001 on July 11, 2009 at 9:23 am

This Theatre was in the process of being converted into a club a little while back.. Went by about a month ago (Around May 2009) to see that the club did not make it. Or at least it doesn’t look like it made it. It was closed up. I have some photos of when it was being converted into a club back in 2007. I was allowed to go inside for a few photos! Seen Here:.. http://tinyurl.com/kj2g2m
… Enjoy.. RAC

JGarland on August 14, 2008 at 11:53 am

I was the manager of the Ridgewood Theatre in 1979 through the summer of 1980. At the time it was a dollar theatre owned by Plitt. It was well kept. People were always commenting about how nice it was “for a dollar theatre.” In the summer of 1980 the Dallas area experienced a record number of consecutive 100+ temperature days, and during that period the electricity went out one day and all the candy melted!!!

MarkInTX on April 20, 2006 at 5:41 pm

My grandparents live about 5 mintues away, so I drove by on Easter Sunday. At least for that day, the theater was being used as a banquet hall. There were tables set up in the well-perserved lobby. Even though the doors were wide open, I was running late, so I didn’t stop to go in.

I believe the theater was part of the Interstate circuit when it opened. I want to say it was originally a one-screen, before being twinned sometime in the late 70s.

The theater’s marquee on Kingsley is still there. Various stores in the shopping center the theater is located in now use it to advertise sales.

lostmemory on December 5, 2004 at 12:24 pm

There is a photo of the Ridgewood Theater (scroll to bottom of page) along with photos of other Texas theaters here:
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