Norwood Twin

5611 Norwood Avenue,
Jacksonville, FL 32208

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Trolleyguy
Trolleyguy on May 22, 2024 at 7:20 am

Now a lounge called the Skyline Sports Bar.

rivest266
rivest266 on May 22, 2024 at 6:48 am

Opened on December 23rd, 1970 as a Trans-Lux Inflight Twin Cine Theatre using 16mm projection. Grand opening ad posted.

JackCoursey
JackCoursey on April 9, 2023 at 4:40 pm

The actual address of the former Norwood is 5611 Norwood Ave, Jacksonville, FL 32208. Although the building remains, it is hard to tell what, if any of the original interior remains.

gemsroadwarrior
gemsroadwarrior on July 3, 2008 at 2:37 am

Great pics, Harvey! In the early days of this theater, my dad took me to see a re-release of “The Ten Commandments”. That was in the days when the Norwood Shopping Center and Gateway Shopping Center (across the street) were major shopping destinations. Norwood had “Woolco” (a “Woolworth” store) and “Big Star”. Gateway had “Pennys”, “Montgomery Ward”, “W.T. Grant”, “G.C. Murphy” and others. The only “Sears” was in downtown Jax. Near the end of it’s heyday or at the beginning of it’s doomsday, I saw a marathon of all five “Planet of the Apes” movies, sponsored by the WAPE radio station (then 690 AM). They called it “The GO APE Marathon”. I also remember seeing “Diamonds Are Forever” there.