Broadway Theatre
420 Broadway,
Chelsea,
MA
02150
420 Broadway,
Chelsea,
MA
02150
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Previously operated by: M & P Theaters, Paramount Pictures Inc., Publix
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Single screen neighborhood theatre opened in 1916/1917 and closed in 1950. The Broadway Theatre was torn down by 1955 and land re-used as a pedestrian walkway and municipal parking lot.
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Edward Findlay
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Photos from shortly after closure, 1940, and 1938 shown here: http://www.olgp.net/chs/square/broadway.htm
The Broadway Theater is listed in the 1927 Film Daily Yearbook as having over 1000 seats and open 7 days per week.
The Broadway in Chelsea is listed in the 1942-43 Motion Picture Yearbook as part of M&P Theatres, 60 Scollay Square Boston. M&P, Mullin & Pinanski, a Paramount affiliate, also ran the Olympia Theatre in Chelsea.
1955 aerial view shows the theatre demolished… View link
link shows another location but type in the location of the theatre and click on the 1955 aerial map and it shows it already demolished and in use as a parking lot…
Open ~1916/1917-~1955? Can anyone verify the exact dates?
Owners:
1930 Publix Theatres Corp.
1935-1945 M&P Theatres, Mullins and Pinaski, (Paramount Affiliate)
1950-1955 New England Theatres, Inc., (Affillated with American Broadcasting Companies, Inc.) of Boston, Chester L. Stoddard, President. They had 8 theaters in Connecticut, Massachusetts and Rhode Island.
More info and more photos always welcome.
May have been owned until 1955 but it was closed as a theatre around 1950.
The Theatre Historical Society archive in Illinois has the MGM Theatre Report for the Broadway Theatre. Listed at 420 Broadway; it was Closed at the time. It had 804 orchestra seats and 386 balcony seats, total: 1,190. There is an exterior photo take April 1941. The theater had a fancy marquee which read “Closed – Visit the Olympia”.
Early `50s photo added via Edward Sunjunkuru Lynch‎. Already closed and advertising the Olympia Theatre. Possibly the same image from the now dead 2011 link.
photo from Mr. Lynch is the same photo in the dead link, taken in 1950.