Swissland Cinema
146 S. Main Street,
Woodsfield,
OH
43793
146 S. Main Street,
Woodsfield,
OH
43793
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Functions: Church
Styles: Streamline Moderne
Previous Names: Life Theater, New Life Theater
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Opened by 1930 as the Swissland Theater. It became the 600-seat Life Theater in late-August 1939. It still had this name in 1943, but by 1950 had been renamed New Life Theater.
In December 1978 it was renamed Swissland Cinema. It had become the New Life Church by 2007.
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From the August 26, 1939, issue of Boxoffice Magazine: “At Woodsfield this week Jess Shannon, exhibitor there, was opening his new 600-seat house, known as the Life.”
In 1954, Joe Shannon of the New Life Theatre is quoted in several ads appearing in Boxoffice, praising the benefits of CinemaScope for small town movie houses.
From the January 7, 1956, issue: “J.J. Shannon, manager, reports the reopening of the Newlife Theatre, Woodsfield, Ohio….”
The December 11, 1978, issue of Boxoffice quotes a regional buyer and booker named Jack Talley as saying that the Swissland Cinema in Woodsfield was being opened.
There’s a New Life Church. Building sure looks like it could have been a theater.
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Second paragraph here says it’s a church.
http://cinematreasures.org/news/13436_0_1_0_C/
Better picture here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ahkitj/2824617520/
That’s a nice 1930s Moderne facade, but the side wall looks like much older construction. Note the bricked-up arched window. It looks like the theater was built in an existing building, or using at least one surviving wall from an earlier building.
Opened in August 1939 as the Life Theatre, renamed Swissland Cinema in December 1978.
This theatre was called the Swissland in 1930.