Belvedere Theatre

1346 Columbia Drive,
Decatur, GA 30032

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WHITEFIELD
WHITEFIELD on June 4, 2007 at 4:46 pm

Here is a better one.
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WHITEFIELD
WHITEFIELD on May 25, 2007 at 6:44 pm

Here is another picture of The Belvedere Theatre
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Michael Furlinger
Michael Furlinger on January 10, 2007 at 3:42 am

this still open?

kencmcintyre
kencmcintyre on April 26, 2006 at 4:14 pm

Here is a photo:
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StanMalone
StanMalone on September 15, 2005 at 9:28 pm

The place seems to be open at the moment.

I only worked at the Belvedere during the fall of 1972, long after its glory days as a prime second run neighborhood house. By this time it was reduced to playing third run releases usually playing pictures on the “drive in” break for one week runs. This place was built in the 60’s by the old H.B. Miselmann Company which later changed its name to Eastern Federal Corp. It was one of the old style EFC houses such as Toco Hills, North Springs, and Cherokee. All of these houses had a fair sized lobby, 800 plus seats and very tall auditoriums each grossly overlamped.

It had a brief return to glory in the summer of 1976 when it played “Bad News Bears” on its first run wide break. Although the neighborhood was in decline by then there were still many families in the area and seeing them lined up the length of the shopping center sidewalk really brought back images of the 60’s. I believe the twinning took place in 1977 or early 1978, just shortly before EFC sold out and left town. It operated as a dollar house as late as 1983 before going porn.

xtc37us2000
xtc37us2000 on July 20, 2005 at 12:12 pm

Is the Belvedere Theatre still closed or has it reopend for business.

RobertR
RobertR on January 10, 2005 at 10:52 am

Porn most likely kept this open years after it would have closed with all the competition from multiplexes.

UAGirl
UAGirl on January 10, 2005 at 9:19 am

UPDATE: This past week the Belevedere Theatre was raided the and is now closed. So,yes, she is/was in a rather shady part of town.

I also found out that she was in the Eastern Federal theatre chain before her current owners took over.

BTW, there was story posted in my original entry concerning Ringo Starr showing up to the premiere of a movie that he was in purely because the Belvedere Theatre was the only theatre in GA that agreed to screen it.

DENNISWHITEFIELD
DENNISWHITEFIELD on December 20, 2002 at 4:49 pm

THIS THEATRE WAS CALLED THE BELVEDERE THEATRE IN THE MID 1960’S. I KNOW BECAUSE I GREW UP IN DECATUR AND USED TO GO THE THIS THEATRE. THEY SHOWED FAMILY MOVIES, FROM WALT DISNEY TO ELVIS PRESLEY MOVIES. P.S. AND THIS IS NOT A RED LIGHT DISTRICT.