The Avon Cinema (260 Thayer Street, Providence, Rhode Island) is an Art Deco Theatre opened on the East Side of Providence, near Brown University, since February, 1938 in the United States of America. [1]

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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 , 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]

References

1. Avon Cinema
2. Cinema Treasures