Southgate 4
16500 Fort Street,
Southgate,
MI
48195
16500 Fort Street,
Southgate,
MI
48195
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The Southgate was the biggest, best theater in the downriver area, and I spent a significant portion of my childhood there. I was horrified when it was tied up for over six months showing some awful gangster movie called “The Godfather”.
It started out as a single screen in 1969, designed by architect Louis Wiltse, then later a building was added to the back increasing the number of screens to three. Then the main house was divided in half.
The Southgate sat next to the Fort George Drive-In.
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Don Solosan
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According to an advert I came across online for ‘Close Encounters of the Third Kind’ the theater was outfitted to feature 70mm presentations.