Riverside Theatre
16901 Lorain Avenue,
Cleveland,
OH
44111
16901 Lorain Avenue,
Cleveland,
OH
44111
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The Riverside Theatre opened its doors on April 17, 1938 with Sonja Henie in “Happy Landing” and Jack Cooper in “Boys Of The Streets” along with Chapter 1 of “The Lone Ranger”, the Pete Smith Specialty “Audioscopiks”, an unnamed Mickey Mouse cartoon, and a newsreel.
Loews twinned the Riverside Theatre on October 28, 1978 and the Riverside Theatre closed for the final time on January 20, 1994 with “My Life” in Screen 1 and “Carlito’s Way” in Screen 2. It was demolished that same year to make way for a Walgreens.
1978 photo of the Riverside Theater added.
Source:
https://www.westparkhistory.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/WPTimes_10a-Riverside-Theatre.pdf
Riverside direct link here.
http://westparkhistory.com/thennow/gone/gone.htm#riverside
Link with photos of the West Park and Riverside Theatres.
http://westparkhistory.com/thennow/gone/gone.htm#WPmovie
The Riverside Theatre in Cleveland was listed in the “New Theaters” column of The Film Daily for April 9, 1938. The item named the architect only as Burrows. This must have been George Howard Burrows, architect of at least five other theaters in north central Ohio.
April 17th, 1938 ad is at View link
NIce shots of the LOEWS RIVERSIDE.
No problem, Lost Memory. I wanted to be certain to get James L. Smith’s name credited.
The photo “Lost Memory” has posted comes from our website, westparkhistory.com, where it was posted courtesy of James L. Smith.
You can see another old photo of the Riverside Theater on our site and read a bit about it.
Gary
westparkhistory.com
The Riverside was owned by the local chainlette called Community Circuit – headed by Bert Lefkowich. Loews bought out Community Circuit in the mid 1970s and twinned it. I think Loews ran it til it was demolished.