Loew's Broad Theatre
39 W. Broad Street,
Columbus,
OH
43215
39 W. Broad Street,
Columbus,
OH
43215
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Additional Info
Previously operated by: Loew's Inc., United Artists Theater Circuit Inc.
Architects: Charles Howard Crane, H. Kenneth Franzheim
Previous Names: James Theatre, Loew's United Artists Broad Theatre
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Located across the street from the RKO Palace Theatre and adjacent to the Broadway Theatre in downtown Columbus. The James Theatre was opened on March 28, 1921 with Bebe Daniels in “You Never Can Tell”. It was equipped with a Kimball 3 manual 15 ranks organ. Re-named Loew’s Broad Theatre on August 21, 1927, it was closed on March 31, 1961 and was demolished.
An office building now is on the site.
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The Columbus Metropolitan Library has an online historic photo collection with several photos of this and other theatres.
Broadway Theatre and James Theatre, side by side. The Broadway closed in 1929; the James became Loew’s Broad.
Loew’s Broad Theatre, 1960. The marquee advertises a live magic show, plus a double feature of Studs Lonigan and The Pusher.
Click on the thumbnails to see full-size photos.
One more Loew’s Broad photo from the library collection:
Busloads of people flocked to Loew’s Broad Theatre in 1956 to see “The Ten Commandments”.
Click on the thumbnail to see a full-size photo.
And one last Loew’s Broad photo, from 1957. This one shows lots of school buses lined up, some double-parked, outside the theatre whose marquee displays “The Ten Commandments”.
Across the street is the RKO Palace marquee, advertising Alan Ladd in “Big Land”, and a second feature of “Wicked Wife”.
Thanks for all the info!
Here is another photo:
http://tinyurl.com/g5ax7
Interesting that vertical in the photo posted by ken mc on May 15,2006 reads Loews and United Artists.
Nice 1927 ad posted on the photo page today.
This opened as the James Theatre on March 29th, 1921. Grand opening ad posted.
It was never the Rialto theatre. 1927 grand opening ad posted.
Motion Picture News of August 26, 1927 ran this belated notice about the Broad Theatre and the Loews-United Artists partnership’s other new theater planned for Columbus: