Foster Art Theatre

The closest Loews Theater to Youngstown was a Loews house at the Eastwood Mall in Niles (roughly a half-hour’s drive from downtown Y-town) that opened spring ‘69 (“Anne of the Thousand Days” may have been their first movie).
Loews twinned that Eastwood house in 1973, and within a few years they sold the theater to the same Youngstown chain that—at the time—owned virtually every theater in the area. Drawing a blank on the chain’s name right now: pretty ironic considering the fact that, like most Baby Boomer Ytown natives, I worked at one of their theaters while in high school.

The Foster’s glory days, unfortunately, were mostly before I was old enough to take advantage of them.
I remember they used to show a classic film (“The Seventh Seal” or maybe “La Strada”) every Tuesday as a bonus feature with their regular attraction. Can you imagine something like that today??!!
They truly put the “art” in “arthouse.”
During the mid-‘60s “Batman” TV craze, they did weekend matinees of all the old “Batman” serials from the 1940s. And I remember seeing a reissue of “House of Wax” there (in REAL 3-D!) around 1971.
The Foster also gets bonus points for being the place where I saw my first subtitled movie: Eric Rohmer’s “My Night at Maude’s” in 1970. I was 12 at the time.

It looks like the theater was working on having a site, but never finished it.
http://fostertheater.com/

What an insanely beautiful old dump!