A report in the Pasadena Star-News March 14 2005 states that the former Cinema 21 ex. Washington Theatre has been purchased and plans have been put forward to renovate the theatre and adjoining appartments. The theatre will be split into two screens seating about 500 and 65 and the plans include a new Starbucks, a Ben and Jerry’s and office space created out of appartments that had been illegally converted from original office space in the mid 1990’s.
The difference of opinion here seems to be that;
Ron is talking about theatres who publish their programmes (usually monthy) on give-away sheets where the daily changes of programme are usually laid out in the form of a daily calendar for the period covered.
MagicLantern; I presume you are talking about the 2005 Landmark Theatres Calendar that was on sale at their theatres, which showed photo’s of various Landmark Theatres month by month for the year.
This opened as the 540 seat 72nd St. Playhouse in 1914 and still had this name in 1930. By 1941 and in the 1943 and 1950 Film Daily Yearbook’s it was known as the Granada Theatre with a seating capacity of 599.
It was last known as the 72nd St. East Theatre and was demolished in 1985.
The State was a conversion of a 1924 built former bank building. The architect of the conversion was Archie G. Parish and he created an 825 seat auditorium that had a free floating screen on the back wall that had concealed coloured lighting behind it. It was equipped for screening 70mm movies with stereo sound.
Originally opened as a local vaudeville theatre, in around 1945 it became a night-club called Slapsie Maxies, named after boxer and B movie star Maxie Rosenblum. Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis made their West Coast debut here.
Eventually (late 1950’s) it converted into a movie theatre, first known as the Capri and later the Riviera screening repertory movies in seasons of off beat independent realeases. In the early 1960’s it was known as the Europa, screening many European art house movies and its next incaration was the Eros, firsrtly playing foreign movies that contain fairly explicit sex scenes, later it became a gay male porno cinema.
Between 1968 and 1977 it changed it’s name to Beverley Cinema and began showing XXX rated adult movies and included nude dancers on stage.
In May 1978, it became the New Beverley Cinema and since then has become the main revival house cinema in Los Angeles.
The Walt Whitman Theatre was demolished in 1981. It originally opened in June 1927 and featured marble floors and walnut paneled walls and ceilings. It is always listed as being a theatre in Camden, although its actual location is just across the border in Pennsauken.
It was the first theatre in the Camden area to screen talkies and was a first-run house, being used as a production site for live radio programmes which featured the organ. It retained its stage shows until the 1940’s
TC;
53-39 Van Houten Street, Paterson, NJ. 07505, does map out on Mapquest. I think you are correct in saying that the Orpheum Theater became the State Theater which is listed as having 1,184 seats.
The only other theatre I have a record of on Van Houten Street is the Lyceum Theatre at 123 Van Houten Street.
Film Daily Yearbooks give a seating capacity of 860, so maybe it lost some seats(uppper balcony perhaps?) when it converted to movie theatre use. The address given is 31 Main Street, Bradford, PA
The Film Daily Yearbook, 1930 has this listed as the Atlantic Theatre, with 474 seats and listed as closed. In the 1941 and 1943 editions it is listed as the Scott Theatre with 452 seats and again is listed as closed. By 1950 it is not listed.
Benjamin;
Try looking at the Grand Theatre /theaters/630/
I was just about to add the Ditmars Theatre but have now held back. My F.D.R. actually gives an address as 22-68 31st Ave but thats quite a way from Ditmars Blvd so I thought it could be a mis-print? Reading what you have just posted here and whats said about the Ditmars on the Grand Theatre page, i’m not so sure now. Maybe as a local you will know better than me and post a correct entry for the Ditmars.
The closest I can get to your 31st St and Ditmars Boulevard address is in my 1950 Film Daily Yearbook, the Ditmars Theatre, 22-68 31st Street which had 597 seats listed. This is not currently listed on Cinema Treasures.
lostmemory;
Nice story there. ‘Multiple vandalism’ in New Hampshire…who would have thought it!
The Opera House opened in 1895, the architect was Fred T. Austin and it has a seating capacity of 463. It has also been known as the Grand Opera House and Town Hall. Its main uses being drama, musical comedy, vaudeville, opera, minstral shows and wrestling. I’m not sure if films have been shown here? The 783 seat Premier Theatre, 35 Main St. was the towns movie theatre.
Film Daily Yearbook’s 1941 and 1943 list the Roosevelt Theatre as having 190 seats. The theatre burnt down in January 1945 and was re-built, in the 1950 edition of F.D.Y. the name has been changed to New Bremen Theatre and the seating capacity is 425.
The Glenwood Theater is listed as having 565 seats in the Film Daily Yearbook, 1930. It has disappeared from listings in the 1950 edition of F.D.Y.
In a posting on the ‘other’ Glenwood Theatre, located on Myrtle Ave /theaters/4623/ Orlando says that ‘this’ Flatbush Ave, Glenwood Theater originally opened as the Antoinette Theatre.
When I went to take a look at it, what intrigued me was the theatre that it backs onto…This theatre building has the slightly faded sign Oxford Theatre painted on the stage house (probably dating from the 1940’s or early 1950’s). It is visible as you travel east along Santa Monica and at first I thought it was perhaps the stage tower of the Tiki Theatre, but no…..
Inspecting the ‘Oxford Theatre’ further I discovered the main facade and entrance located around the corner at 1089 N. Oxford Avenue. The auditorium is parallel to Santa Monica Blvd behind the stores and the Tiki Theatre. N. Oxford is one block west along Santa Monica Boulevard from where the 101 crosses Santa Monica Blvd. It is now home of the the MET Theatre and their website states there is a 99 seat theatre and another performance space in the building (no history on the building they occupy though)
I have no record of the Oxford Theatre operating as a movie theatre in Film Daily yearbooks that I have from 1941. Did it ever screen movies or was it always a local stage theatre?
The architects of the 72nd St. Playhouse were Gronenberg & Leuchtag.
The Warners Downtown Theatre was originally the Pantages Theatre, but this was never Art Deco, more Beaux Art/Greek style.
The Wiltern Theatre was originally the Warner Western Theatre and that was/still is splendid Art Deco styled.
A report in the Pasadena Star-News March 14 2005 states that the former Cinema 21 ex. Washington Theatre has been purchased and plans have been put forward to renovate the theatre and adjoining appartments. The theatre will be split into two screens seating about 500 and 65 and the plans include a new Starbucks, a Ben and Jerry’s and office space created out of appartments that had been illegally converted from original office space in the mid 1990’s.
Cinema 21 has been empty since closing in 1992.
The difference of opinion here seems to be that;
Ron is talking about theatres who publish their programmes (usually monthy) on give-away sheets where the daily changes of programme are usually laid out in the form of a daily calendar for the period covered.
MagicLantern; I presume you are talking about the 2005 Landmark Theatres Calendar that was on sale at their theatres, which showed photo’s of various Landmark Theatres month by month for the year.
This opened as the 540 seat 72nd St. Playhouse in 1914 and still had this name in 1930. By 1941 and in the 1943 and 1950 Film Daily Yearbook’s it was known as the Granada Theatre with a seating capacity of 599.
It was last known as the 72nd St. East Theatre and was demolished in 1985.
The State was a conversion of a 1924 built former bank building. The architect of the conversion was Archie G. Parish and he created an 825 seat auditorium that had a free floating screen on the back wall that had concealed coloured lighting behind it. It was equipped for screening 70mm movies with stereo sound.
It had closed as a movie theatre by 1982.
Originally opened as a local vaudeville theatre, in around 1945 it became a night-club called Slapsie Maxies, named after boxer and B movie star Maxie Rosenblum. Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis made their West Coast debut here.
Eventually (late 1950’s) it converted into a movie theatre, first known as the Capri and later the Riviera screening repertory movies in seasons of off beat independent realeases. In the early 1960’s it was known as the Europa, screening many European art house movies and its next incaration was the Eros, firsrtly playing foreign movies that contain fairly explicit sex scenes, later it became a gay male porno cinema.
Between 1968 and 1977 it changed it’s name to Beverley Cinema and began showing XXX rated adult movies and included nude dancers on stage.
In May 1978, it became the New Beverley Cinema and since then has become the main revival house cinema in Los Angeles.
The Film Daily Yearbook, 1930 gives a seating capacity of 770 for the Regent Theatre.
The Warner Theatre originally opened on 19th August 1931. The Film Daily Yearbook, 1950 gives a seating capacity of 1,850.
The Walt Whitman Theatre was demolished in 1981. It originally opened in June 1927 and featured marble floors and walnut paneled walls and ceilings. It is always listed as being a theatre in Camden, although its actual location is just across the border in Pennsauken.
It was the first theatre in the Camden area to screen talkies and was a first-run house, being used as a production site for live radio programmes which featured the organ. It retained its stage shows until the 1940’s
TC;
53-39 Van Houten Street, Paterson, NJ. 07505, does map out on Mapquest. I think you are correct in saying that the Orpheum Theater became the State Theater which is listed as having 1,184 seats.
The only other theatre I have a record of on Van Houten Street is the Lyceum Theatre at 123 Van Houten Street.
The Loew’s State Theatre, Newark closed in 1977.
There were 48 theatres listed in the 1941 edition of Film Daily Yearbook for Newark.
Film Daily Yearbooks give a seating capacity of 860, so maybe it lost some seats(uppper balcony perhaps?) when it converted to movie theatre use. The address given is 31 Main Street, Bradford, PA
The Film Daily Yearbook, 1930 has this listed as the Atlantic Theatre, with 474 seats and listed as closed. In the 1941 and 1943 editions it is listed as the Scott Theatre with 452 seats and again is listed as closed. By 1950 it is not listed.
Benjamin;
Try looking at the Grand Theatre /theaters/630/
I was just about to add the Ditmars Theatre but have now held back. My F.D.R. actually gives an address as 22-68 31st Ave but thats quite a way from Ditmars Blvd so I thought it could be a mis-print? Reading what you have just posted here and whats said about the Ditmars on the Grand Theatre page, i’m not so sure now. Maybe as a local you will know better than me and post a correct entry for the Ditmars.
Benjamin;
The closest I can get to your 31st St and Ditmars Boulevard address is in my 1950 Film Daily Yearbook, the Ditmars Theatre, 22-68 31st Street which had 597 seats listed. This is not currently listed on Cinema Treasures.
Approx what year was the Mickey Rooney movie?
The photo posted by J.F. Lundy above has “Boy Meets Girl” playing on the marquee which dates it at 1938, a year after the Bruin opened.
The Boller Brothers re-modelled the theatre in 1935-6.
The Film Daily Yearbook 1941 gives a seating capacity of 408. In the 1950 edition of F.D.Y seating is given as 468.
lostmemory;
Nice story there. ‘Multiple vandalism’ in New Hampshire…who would have thought it!
The Opera House opened in 1895, the architect was Fred T. Austin and it has a seating capacity of 463. It has also been known as the Grand Opera House and Town Hall. Its main uses being drama, musical comedy, vaudeville, opera, minstral shows and wrestling. I’m not sure if films have been shown here? The 783 seat Premier Theatre, 35 Main St. was the towns movie theatre.
Film Daily Yearbook’s 1941 and 1943 list the Roosevelt Theatre as having 190 seats. The theatre burnt down in January 1945 and was re-built, in the 1950 edition of F.D.Y. the name has been changed to New Bremen Theatre and the seating capacity is 425.
The Glenwood Theater is listed as having 565 seats in the Film Daily Yearbook, 1930. It has disappeared from listings in the 1950 edition of F.D.Y.
In a posting on the ‘other’ Glenwood Theatre, located on Myrtle Ave /theaters/4623/ Orlando says that ‘this’ Flatbush Ave, Glenwood Theater originally opened as the Antoinette Theatre.
The Tiki is definately a storefront theatre.
When I went to take a look at it, what intrigued me was the theatre that it backs onto…This theatre building has the slightly faded sign Oxford Theatre painted on the stage house (probably dating from the 1940’s or early 1950’s). It is visible as you travel east along Santa Monica and at first I thought it was perhaps the stage tower of the Tiki Theatre, but no…..
Inspecting the ‘Oxford Theatre’ further I discovered the main facade and entrance located around the corner at 1089 N. Oxford Avenue. The auditorium is parallel to Santa Monica Blvd behind the stores and the Tiki Theatre. N. Oxford is one block west along Santa Monica Boulevard from where the 101 crosses Santa Monica Blvd. It is now home of the the MET Theatre and their website states there is a 99 seat theatre and another performance space in the building (no history on the building they occupy though)
I have no record of the Oxford Theatre operating as a movie theatre in Film Daily yearbooks that I have from 1941. Did it ever screen movies or was it always a local stage theatre?
The Film Daily Yearbook, 1941 gives a seating capacity for the Castle Theater as 312.