Ideal Theatre

530 Dudley St Roxbury (Boston) MA

Information for this tour was contributed by William Leach Jr.

The Ideal Theater in Roxbury was known affectionately as the "Shack". Nobody called it the Ideal. I spent many a Saturday and Sunday watching a double feature with as many as 20 cartoons and a newsreel with a pause for a collection for MD or polio. When I was about 7 or 8, it cost 7 cents. Then they put in Cinemascope and it cost 12 cents (around 1954). It was 35 cents for adults. I think it closed around 1961 and had many fires after that. They tore it down in the 1970s.

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