Then and now: From Park Avenue to Heavenly Way

Businesses along the old Park Avenue. Photo/Rich Jamieson

Heavenly Cinema on what is now Heavenly Way. Photo/Bill Kingman

Before it was renamed Heavenly Village Way, the photo to the left shows what was Park Avenue in the former Crescent V Center.

The 1968 photo shows a portion of the Crescent V Annex building. Through the years the annex housed a Greyhound bus depot, U.S. post office, Martha Washington’s Ice Cream, Monk’s Pizza, Stateline Cinema, El Pavo Mexican Restaurant, Jimmy Valentine’s “Records” (later relocated and became The Dead Head), Jerry & Phyllis Gelb’s Western Auto, a veterinary clinic, and KTHO, among other businesses.

Today, Heavenly Village Cinema entirely covers that site.

— Bill Kingman