Family Theater
635 Main Street,
Covington,
KY
41011
635 Main Street,
Covington,
KY
41011
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The Family Theater was opened by 1916. At some period of time, it was given an Art Deco style makeover. It was closed in 1951. The former Family Theater is now a music store.
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Look carefully this maybe one of our ONLY automobile deco cinemas.More later.
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Hank, when will you be ready to fill us in on the Auto-Deco teaser?
The Family Theatre was opened in 1916 by Nicholas G. Shafer, according to his thumbnail biography in the “Twenty Year Showmen” feature published in Boxoffice, May 26, 1945. The Family Theatre had 534 seats. Shafer went on to open the Victoria Theatre in 1921, which was replaced by the Shirley Theatre in 1924.
My mother and father had two dollars left after they got married and so took their honeymoon at the Family Theater in 1941. So after the War, they were regular patrons of that theater until I wore them out at age 3 by constantly wanting to go to the bathroom and by wanting to crawl up on the ledge that ran along the walls. The last movie that I can remember that we went to was a movie starring Edward G. Robinson who was playing a cattle baron in a western. I do remember the title of the movie because I was too busy trying to get up on the ledge to notice.
Closed or halted its newspaper ads in 1951.