Goodale Theatre
528 Hennepin Avenue,
Minneapolis,
MN
55403
528 Hennepin Avenue,
Minneapolis,
MN
55403
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To everyone in Minneapolis who has posted a comment on this page:
I’m currently making a documentary about people who try to save historic movie theatres called, “Preserve Me a Seat.” I’ll be coming to Minneapolis for a weekend to film in June and would love to interview people with comments/memories about this theatre and the efforts to save it. If you’re interested in being interviewed or would like more information, please email me at:
Thank you.
Jim Fields
Writer/Director/Producer, “Preserve Me a Seat”
The theater still awaits funding from the state bonding bill to commence with the renovation. Artspace is awaiting another session since this year no monies were alotted for the project (the new planetarium scored big though!) Alas, in another year we’ll dance the bonding dance once more, hopefully for the last time.
Are there any recent developments in what is going on with the Academy today? And does anyone know the exact location it sits?
Saw Funny Girl there as a member of a farming town choir ‘reward’.
Recall the curtains were very gilded; the screen was big and leaned back, as I guess the projector was upstairs.
It was all very close; unlike the Sound of Music at the Down town Mann; or anything I saw later in the big houses.
I just moved into a home in Baden, Pennsylvania. In the old home, we opened a wall and the last thing to fall from the ceiling was a ticket from 1927 which read “Shubert Alvin Theatre. Could this be the same thing?
At around 6 million pounds, the theater was the heaviest building ever moved on rubber wheels; here is the Guinness Record.
An article and some facts from the Star Tribune.
Jim Lileks insightful take on the Shubert’s history.
Just after opening,
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A later marquee (the veritcal reminds of a pez candy for some reason, coulndn’t tell you why)-
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Fire!! Looks like the asbestos curtain saved the auditorium-
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Stop!, leave it alone-
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Check out the site in my post above, the remodeling is going to be supurb, especially the annex. The project is awaiting funding from the state legistlature.
Here is link for the project:
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(great visuals)
This building is noteworthy in Minneapolis, since it has actually been moved from its original location during the summer of 1999. The largest building ever moved at 29,000 tons, this theater now sits on Hennepin Avenue, just down the street from the State and the Orpheum, waiting for renovation.