Status should be changed to Open.
This theatre is currently Mad Batter Food & Film, a restaurant/tavern that runs free films.
Website and Facebook page below.
1939 photo added, credit Gordon Sign from their archives.
The West Theatre blade sign being transported via truck.
Once source states the West was built in 1939.
1934 photo added courtesy of the Rogers Park/West Ridge Historical Society Facebook page.
Auditorium photo in below link.
http://explore.chicagocollections.org/image/thsa/92/hm5303m/
Circa 1961 photo added via Jim Mulso.
Big Rick’s is now Mad Batter Food & Film.
Status should be changed to Open. This theatre is currently Mad Batter Food & Film, a restaurant/tavern that runs free films. Website and Facebook page below.
http://madbatterfoodfilm.com/
https://www.facebook.com/Mad-Batter-Food-Film-233850426803143/
Marquee update.
http://missoulian.com/entertainment/movies/roxy-theater-installs-vintage-neon-marquee-to-mark-th/article_39ab018e-e8eb-578f-ba2f-0c9fa10af330.html
1952 photo added courtesy of David Kroger.
Circa 1917 photo added credit Carolina Power and Light Photograph Collection.
2017 photo added credit Jesse DuBois.
1954 photo added courtesy of Derrick Gardner.
Another article with pics & video.
http://portolaplanet.com/2017/08/solving-avenues-neon-color-mystery/
1965 photo added, credit Save the Signs Facebook page. Double feature 8 years before it was divided.
It should be noted that a number of the photo links embedded in previous comments, now link to a generic Chinese web page.
1965 photo added courtesy of Paula Regalado.
Library Of Congress link with a 1980 photo of the closed Michigan Theater.
http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2017707963/
6/24/66-7/22/66 photo, source unknown.
1962 photo added credit Theresa Altgilbers.
1952 photo added, source unknown.
1952 photo added, source unknown.
Two 2008/`09 filming of “Public Enemies” photos added, source unknown. Also a painting called Biograph-Death Of John Dillinger by Andy Thomas added.
April 1968 photo added courtesy of Don McCauley.
1929 photo added courtesy of Patrick Gillespie.
1939 photo added, credit Gordon Sign from their archives. The West Theatre blade sign being transported via truck. Once source states the West was built in 1939.
1963 postcard added courtesy of John Harkins.
Circa 1959 & 2016 photos added courtesy of Les Higashi.
The Showboat Theatre opened April 26th, 1949, not 1941. Grand opening photos in the below link.
http://www.texascity-library.org/history/wwii/showboat.php