Village Theatre

1305 Rhode Island Avenue NE,
Washington, DC 20018

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Texas2step
Texas2step on March 6, 2019 at 4:32 pm

This one opened on October 17, 1940.

JackCoursey
JackCoursey on May 3, 2008 at 5:05 pm

Here and here are photos from March 2008 of the former Village Theatre.

rlvjr
rlvjr on February 24, 2008 at 2:31 pm

This beautiful neighborhood theater fell victim to the poison of high crime and urban decay. Although the Martin Luther King riots were the death knell for most Washington theaters, the VILLAGE fell victim long before that. Washingtonians would not believe that all of our city was essentially crime-free in the 1950’s, but it was. In the early 1960’s crime spread like weeds, and this northeast area was plagued by nightly robbery, muggings, murder. When liberal toleration of crime takes over, casual family moviegoing is no longer an option.