Hollywood Cinema North

The Hollywood was a beautiful single screen that was split into a twin in the ‘80’s. It was on a bus route so I could go there easily by myself as a teenager, which I did often.

An interesting story: In the last years of its operation, to thwart rowdy types who had been frequenting and disrupting the theatre, they temporarily switched to an “art/classics” format. I was told they used dual projectors in both houses, and as such were able to get access to prints usually not leased out to platter houses. The experiment did not last long and they went back to second-run fare after a month and a half. I wonder if indeed the “gangbanger” types wandered in during that period, and/or stuck around for something like Truffaut’s THE STORY OF ADELE H., which I saw there during that brief time.

Here is a more recent view from Google maps:
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The September 20, 1924, issue of The Moving Picture World said that “[a] new theatre, to be known as the Hollywood, is being erected at College Hill, a suburb of Cincinnati, by the Hollywood Theatre Co., of which Thos. Corcoran, a Cincinnati manufacturer, is at the head.”

RFO (Request of Operator) offering for theatre - https://acrobat.adobe.com/link/review?uri=urn:aaid:scds:US:a9e0d3dd-5eb1-3240-b605-bdd0e18fcd47