Opened on May 25, 1976 with “One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest” in Screen 1, Disney’s “Follow Me Boys” and “Ben And Me” in Screen 2, and “Echoes Of A Summer” in Screen 3.
The actual opening date is November 11, 1970 with Carrie Snodgress in “Diary Of A Mad Housewife”, and was first operated by the Cinecom chain. National Drive-In Theatres was one of its later operators. Its very possible that this started life as a single-screener before twinning. Otherwise, I cannot find as much detail about the Plaza Twin Theatre. It’s also likely that this may’ve closed in the 1990s or 2000s.
The McKinley Theatre opened its doors on November 17, 1923 with Ohio’s premiere of Leah Baird in “The Miracle Makers” along with Pathe News, an unnamed comedy, and a Fun With The Press reel alongside music conducted by the eight-piece McKinley Superb Orchestra.
The actual opening date is December 14, 1914 with the film “Sophia Finds A Hero” along with several live acts including the Seven Malvern Comiques in “Comedy Trick House”, Cotton & Darrow in “The Wise Guys”, Dick Crolius and his company in “The Touts Temptation”, a performance by Hufford & His Lockhard Sisters, and the musical segment “Temple Of Music”.
The Columbia Theatre was named after a theater-naming contest that was held on September 27, 1911, won by local residents Mrs. Ella Hale, Herman Roth, and Kenneth Hauck. The Columbia Theatre opened in January 1912 by manager George L. McClintock who was also the president of a local automobile club.
During the massive growth of movie theaters across Japan during the latter half of the 1950s, Hiroshima City had a grand total of 52 movie theaters as of 1960, with ten of them in its Main Street known as the Aioi-dori in Hiroshima. Unfortunately Hiroshima had a massive downfall to just 28 movie theaters as of 1980.
Both the Hiroshima Toei Theater on the fourth floor and the Hiroshima Toei Underground Theater in the basement both in a reinforced concrete building opened their doors on September 28, 1956, with the Hiroshima Toei Theater screening Toei films with 1,110 seats while the Hiroshima Toei Underground Theater screened foreign films with 460 seats. The Underground Theater was later renamed the Hiroshima Toei Palace on September 2, 1972, while the fourth floor theater retained its original name. This was followed by a downgrade of its seating in both auditoriums from 1,110 and 460 to 718 and 352.
Both the Hiroshima Toei and Palace Theaters closed on April 12, 1993 due to the aging of the building, and the building was complete rebuilt, taking an estimate of more than two years to build.
The two theaters reopened on the 8th floor of the Hiroshima Toei Plaza Building as the Hiroshima Toei and Hiroshima Louvre on October 7, 1995 with the Japanese film “Kura” in Screen 1 and Clint Eastwood in “The Bridges At Madison County” in Screen 2, with a downsized capacity of 436 seats (258 in Toei and 178 in Louvre) featuring both 35mm projection and Dolby 5.1 sound. The Toei theater retains as a Toei, while the Louvre theater shows foreign films from Shochiku and Tokyu as an affiliation of the Marunouchi Louvre chain, but occasionally shows films from all three auditoriums of Tokyo’s Marunouchi Piccadilly. It’s box office was located on the first floor, and both the Toei and Louvre auditoriums had a single slope with their screens being installed at a high position so that way the attendance could easily see the picture from any position.
Unfortunately in the 2000s, attendance numbers begin to decline due to the influence of multiplexes, as well as the nearby popularities of the TOHO Cinemas Midori, the Warner Mycal Cinemas Hiroshima, and the Hiroshima Wald 11.
The Hiroshima Toei and Hiroshima Louvre closed for the final time on November 13, 2009, and after its closure, the site of the ticket office was converted into a prize exchange office for the Shinrai no Mori Hiroshima Hatchobori store.
On September 28, 2014, the eighth floor of the Toei Plaza Building was again reopened back as a movie theater under the Salon Cinema name, which was relocated from its original location in the Takanobashi area of Otemachi, Naka Ward.
The original Salon Cinema originally opened in 1959 as the Takanobashi OS (later renamed Takanobashi Nichigeki), followed by a second theater named the Takanobashi Daiei in 1962. The Takanobashi OS was renamed the Salon Cinema 1 on March 1, 1972 and the Nichigeki was renamed the Salon Cinema 2 on April 29, 1994. Both theaters closed on August 31, 2014 and were relocated to the former sites of the Hiroshima Toei and Hiroshima Louvre the following month.
Opened on May 25, 1976 with “One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest” in Screen 1, Disney’s “Follow Me Boys” and “Ben And Me” in Screen 2, and “Echoes Of A Summer” in Screen 3.
Still open in 1996.
The actual opening date is November 11, 1970 with Carrie Snodgress in “Diary Of A Mad Housewife”, and was first operated by the Cinecom chain. National Drive-In Theatres was one of its later operators. Its very possible that this started life as a single-screener before twinning. Otherwise, I cannot find as much detail about the Plaza Twin Theatre. It’s also likely that this may’ve closed in the 1990s or 2000s.
Once operated by Cinecom.
Still open in the mid-1970s.
Opened in December 1922.
The McKinley Theatre opened its doors on November 17, 1923 with Ohio’s premiere of Leah Baird in “The Miracle Makers” along with Pathe News, an unnamed comedy, and a Fun With The Press reel alongside music conducted by the eight-piece McKinley Superb Orchestra.
Still open in 1977.
The actual opening date is December 14, 1914 with the film “Sophia Finds A Hero” along with several live acts including the Seven Malvern Comiques in “Comedy Trick House”, Cotton & Darrow in “The Wise Guys”, Dick Crolius and his company in “The Touts Temptation”, a performance by Hufford & His Lockhard Sisters, and the musical segment “Temple Of Music”.
The Columbia Theatre was named after a theater-naming contest that was held on September 27, 1911, won by local residents Mrs. Ella Hale, Herman Roth, and Kenneth Hauck. The Columbia Theatre opened in January 1912 by manager George L. McClintock who was also the president of a local automobile club.
The Columbia Theatre closed in late-1966.
I cannot find the exact opening date to the original Lyric, but this opened in mid-1908.
Also to note, December 28, 1934 is on a Friday, while December 28, 1935 is on a Saturday. It opened on a Friday evening.
Hmm, I think you should take a look at this. I found all the info directly from this.
Opened on December 17, 1999 with 14 screens.
This is also the first theater to operate in Elizabeth since the 1996 closure of the Liberty Theatre.
Opened on April 21, 1910.
During the massive growth of movie theaters across Japan during the latter half of the 1950s, Hiroshima City had a grand total of 52 movie theaters as of 1960, with ten of them in its Main Street known as the Aioi-dori in Hiroshima. Unfortunately Hiroshima had a massive downfall to just 28 movie theaters as of 1980.
Both the Hiroshima Toei Theater on the fourth floor and the Hiroshima Toei Underground Theater in the basement both in a reinforced concrete building opened their doors on September 28, 1956, with the Hiroshima Toei Theater screening Toei films with 1,110 seats while the Hiroshima Toei Underground Theater screened foreign films with 460 seats. The Underground Theater was later renamed the Hiroshima Toei Palace on September 2, 1972, while the fourth floor theater retained its original name. This was followed by a downgrade of its seating in both auditoriums from 1,110 and 460 to 718 and 352.
Both the Hiroshima Toei and Palace Theaters closed on April 12, 1993 due to the aging of the building, and the building was complete rebuilt, taking an estimate of more than two years to build.
The two theaters reopened on the 8th floor of the Hiroshima Toei Plaza Building as the Hiroshima Toei and Hiroshima Louvre on October 7, 1995 with the Japanese film “Kura” in Screen 1 and Clint Eastwood in “The Bridges At Madison County” in Screen 2, with a downsized capacity of 436 seats (258 in Toei and 178 in Louvre) featuring both 35mm projection and Dolby 5.1 sound. The Toei theater retains as a Toei, while the Louvre theater shows foreign films from Shochiku and Tokyu as an affiliation of the Marunouchi Louvre chain, but occasionally shows films from all three auditoriums of Tokyo’s Marunouchi Piccadilly. It’s box office was located on the first floor, and both the Toei and Louvre auditoriums had a single slope with their screens being installed at a high position so that way the attendance could easily see the picture from any position.
Unfortunately in the 2000s, attendance numbers begin to decline due to the influence of multiplexes, as well as the nearby popularities of the TOHO Cinemas Midori, the Warner Mycal Cinemas Hiroshima, and the Hiroshima Wald 11.
The Hiroshima Toei and Hiroshima Louvre closed for the final time on November 13, 2009, and after its closure, the site of the ticket office was converted into a prize exchange office for the Shinrai no Mori Hiroshima Hatchobori store.
On September 28, 2014, the eighth floor of the Toei Plaza Building was again reopened back as a movie theater under the Salon Cinema name, which was relocated from its original location in the Takanobashi area of Otemachi, Naka Ward.
Closed as a first-run movie theater on February 9, 1969 with Julie Andrews in “Star”. It closed on the same day as the neighboring State Theatre.
Closed as a first-run movie theater on February 9, 1969 with “Ice Station Zebra”. It closed on the same day as the neighboring Ohio Theatre.
Closed as a first-run movie theater on July 20, 1969 with “Krakatoa East Of Java”.
Actual closing date is July 28, 1963 after a 16-week run of “Lawrence Of Arabia”.
Screen is still standing as of late-2024.
Also opened with 20 minutes of cartoons (possibly three of them) featuring installations of RCA sound. It was still open in the 1980s.
Opened on May 4, 2007 as a replacement of the nearby 4-screen Strongsville Cinema.
The theater became a quad in 1994, and lasted until its closure on May 4, 2007 when Cinemark opened their 14-screener in the SouthPark Mall.