Avon Cinema
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The Avon Cinema (260 Thayer Street, Providence, Rhode Island} is an Art Deco Theatre opened on the East Side of Providence since February, 1938. [1]
[edit] History
260 Thayer Street began as the Toy Theater in 1915. The theater soon closed and became a parking garage until the Avon took over. According to Cinema Treasures, the movie "Marty" premiered here, among others. They had what was also described as a "first-run 'class' policy" continuing through the 1960s. In the 1970s the Avon became a repertory house and was known as the Avon Repertory Cinema. In 1983, they returned to showing "first run foreign and domestic films of distinction." [2]
