Crisscrossing Dorchester and Mattapan, an attentive traveler can still pick out the movie houses that dotted the neighborhoods from the 1910s into the 1980s. One by one, they closed over the years, victims of the onset of television and dropping ticket sales, and morphed into churches, shops, apartments – or empty parking lots.
Source: THE RETURN OF THE MARQUEES: Movie-house comeback at South Bay | Dorchester Reporter