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This site was created to help connect Tampa's historic theatres to the people who have enjoyed them over the years. Please share your stories and the information that you have on these historic treasures, and also please let me know if there are any that I have missed. My goal is to eventually document and preserve the history and stories related to these theatres, by book or documentary or both. Thank you for visiting and contributing to this site. ~ Kelly Hickman, Bamboo Kazoo Productions
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Listed in the 1950 Film Daily Yearbook...475 seats.
Wasn't this Theater on North Blvd. at the end of Main Street in West Tampa, Tampa,Florida
Actually, this theatre was (and still is) located inside of the El Centro Espanol of West Tampa. The theatre desperately needs to be renovated, however the cost to renovate just the theatre is over one million dollars (the rest of the building needs to be renovated, as well).
The building is located at 2306 North Howard Avenue, and is currently the temporary home of the Tampa Museum of Art. The building was added to the US National Register of Historic Places on July 30, 1974 and was originally built in 1912. Architect: Fred J. James
Does anyone know of any interior photographs that exist of the original sweeping staircase at the Centro Espanol de West Tampa?
The entrance to the theater itself was on Cherry Street.
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