Quo Vadis Entertainment Center
7420 Wayne Road,
Westland,
MI
48185
7420 Wayne Road,
Westland,
MI
48185
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Yosh Machida architectural sketch of the Quo Vadis Theatre for the Shafer Theatre Circuit in photos.
Sad to see the Quo Vadis gone. Grew up seeing many, many movies there. Raiders of the Lost Ark, Star Trek II and III, Beverly Hills Cop 2, the three original Star Wars films when they were re-released, just some that stick in my memory. Downstairs and in the Penthouse. Was a great movie theater.
February 5th 1969 plan for the rooftop theatre with picture at
http://freep.newspapers.com/clip/3576939/quo_vadis_rooftop_theater/
June 22nd, 1966 grand opening ad in photo section.
Sadly, the Quo Vadis is no more.
National amusements needs to be shut down and taken over they have no clue how to run movie theaters
Sadly preparation is under way to demolished this beautiful modern theater.
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most of these links no longer work and one picture was deleted come on people if your gonna post links make sure it stays valid. Thank you national amusements for ruining another theater
you are right Chuck1231 if the building cannot be used for something else the property it is sitting on is worth a lot itself.
I hate to see any theater torn down, but this place was ugly,hope I do not offend anybody who loves this place.
Renewing link.
Here is a 2/4/09 article from the Free Press:
http://tinyurl.com/ahpuaw
Any updates? Please let me know as soon as you can. I may have some ideas that are outside of the box, if the theater is still “imminently endangered.” You can post online &/or e-mail me at Thank you!
Please share all that’s new. Thanks!
Michigandriveins – Most certainly it does.
Does the Quo still stand?
http://gallery.savetheqv.org/
Photos of the interior are up!
I’m working with the developer to salvage what we can.
tom
Please e-mail me at and I will be happy to share my thoughts this evening. I have to head back to work. Mention who you are in the subject line.
By facade I’m assuming that you mean the siding? Hopefully. The only question is, donate to whom?
Great! Perhaps the facade can be salvaged and donated as well. It can be reused, rather than feeding a landfill.
Oh, trust me. We will. For sure. We want to salvage as much as we can. We will try to see if we can rescue the signs.
Please still try to encourage the developer to donate some facade elements then.
I made an error in my last post, the official demolition date is sometime in June according to an article published in the news paper.
NativeForestHiller, We tried to make that plea with the developer, unfortunately, it was not an economically sound deal for them.
Salvage as much as possible at the very least, but try convincing developer to build around it or even move the building. If the theater in part or in whole is donated to a non-profit, the owner would be eligible for a tzx write-off. It’s not too late. Keep trying even when the end seems near. Good luck!