Guild Theatre
12719 Gratiot Avenue,
Detroit,
MI
48205
12719 Gratiot Avenue,
Detroit,
MI
48205
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Still standing in the August 2021 street view. It is interesting to scroll around as the years change depending on the angle. No channel sign letters left on the top of the marquee now, but 2 were left in 2019, 3 in 2013, 4 in 2009, versus most of them in the 2007 photo posted earlier. Likely grabbed by metal scrappers. The income from the two billboards on the roof is likely paying the property taxes. Down Waltham Street to its left are many vacant lots, boarded up, abandoned homes. One burnt out. Goulburn Avenue to its right is about the same, but with some homes still occupied.
Reopened as Guild on June 8th, 1962 with “Girl with a Suitcase”. Ad posted.
Undated photo added courtesy of Tom Emm.
If anyone has any stories about going to/ working at this threatre in its adult days, I would love to hear them. I am chronicling the histories of adult theatres in the US. Please contact me at Thanks!
Not demolished, just fewer letters and bigger graffiti.
Is this theater being demolished? I saw something on CNN to that effect.
Here is a 1982 photo:
http://tinyurl.com/czqzt2
Picture of it’s condition as of the summer of 2007:
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