Cleve Theatre
1750 Cleveland Avenue,
Columbus,
OH
43211
1750 Cleveland Avenue,
Columbus,
OH
43211
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posted by Chuck1231 on Jan 31, 2010 at 8:53pm
The Cleve opened in 1940 and at that time it was operated by MacDonald Theatres, Academy Theatres took over operations in 1945 and reamined the operators until it closed in 1964.
posted by ken mc on Jan 31, 2010 at 7:45pm
The Academy Theaters chain ran this theater in 1948. Owners were leo, Betty & Milton Yassenoff.
posted by Lost Memory on Jun 12, 2009 at 8:56pm
Does that mean that this theater was still open at that time?
posted by ken mc on Jun 12, 2009 at 8:28pm
The Cleve was listed in the Columbus city directory in 1961:
http://tinyurl.com/mwg4rd
posted by MarkL on Feb 22, 2009 at 6:57pm
Sadly, knowing that part of town, it is likely to stay boarded up. That isn’t a very safe place to be after dark.
posted by ZookieFreddie on Feb 22, 2009 at 5:49pm
As of February 2009 the building is still there, vacant and boarded up just like in the picture.
posted by Ron Newman on Feb 10, 2008 at 2:54pm
It’s sad to see a building like this abandoned rather than converted to some other use.
When was this last a theatre? I do not remember ever seeing advertisements for it when I lived in Columbus (1968-75).
I grabbed the comments from Google, and I’ll attempt to rebuild them. Still don’t know why things just went away.
posted by Lost Memory on Feb 8, 2008 at 7:50pm
A recent picture of the Cleve theater building. View link
There were 10 comments about this location as of 2/15/10. All were valid comments. They are still available in the Google cache. What happened?