According to the official website as 0f 10-12-2012, the needed funds to build a replacement for this theater could not be raised, and the lack of listings there implies that theater has closed.
According to the text near the bottom of this webpage, the Sioux City Community Theatre staged its productions at the Victory but this apparently ceased in 1965 or thereabouts. It is not clear if it was still operating at least part-time as a cinema when the community theater group was active there, but the reason that the community theatre group had to vacate may have been because the theater was already had been sold or slated for demolition prior to 1969.
There is a picture of a Hipp Theater in this montage of old theaters in Sioux Falls which may have been this theater. (The marquee for the Hippodrome in Cleveland read Hipp for years).
Not to belabor the point, but if the comment being referred to is this one of April 26, 2011 at barbrasteisand.com, the only thing she says about ice cream is that “[the Kings] had…great ice cream cones.” Perhaps they were like a local version of Drumsticks.
A prospective buyer has come forward with plans to restore the Wheaton Grand if the sale goes through and a fund raising drive is successful: View article
A picture of the New Theatre can be seen on this webpage (scroll about one-third of the way down). According to the caption, it later became Decker’s Bar.
This link will take you to a .pdf of a page of the Geneva Daily Times for December 26, 1918 that includes an article about improvements being made to the Regent; it also includes ads for the Regent and Fisher Theatres.
A view of the exterior can be seen on the bottom of this webpage, a photo of the lobby/concessions area can be seen here, one of the interior entrance is here, and a view of one of the auditoriums can be seen here.
This should probably be entered as Keith’s 105th Street Theatre, rather than the RKO Keith’s 105th Street Theatre (though that should be an AKA). I do not know when RKO gave it up, but I would guess it would have been about the same time they gave up the Palace in the early 1950’s, possibly in connection with the Consent Decree. I grew up in Cleveland in the 1950’s and 1960’s and it was always referred to then as Keith’s 105th, not the RKO Keith’s. It certainly was not under RKO management when it closed.
It may be that AMC merger agreement with Loews-Cineplex may have specified that the Loews name remain on some theaters or it may be similar to the choice made when Regal was formed to keep some theaters operating under the Edwards and UA brands just as Cinemark has kept (and opened) some theaters under the Century and Cine Arts labels. Or, perhaps, they just do not want to spend the money to have the theaters re-signed.
That photo of a ticket, shown above, picturing President Washington, is not a ticket to this theater. That 1889 event was at the second St. Charles Theater which was located on this theater’s site but which burned down in 1899.
This St. Charles Theatre was erected in 1902, was almost immediately renamed the Orpheum and then became the St. Charles again when Saenger chain took it over and the existing Orpheum on University Place opened. As noted above, this theater was demolished in 1965. It was located next door to the Liberty Theater, and a small portion the left edge of the St. Charles can be seen at the extreme right edge of this photo of the Liberty.
It may be just my opinion, but “reserved seats” as used today does not carry the same cachet as it did in the roadshow era, especially when everything else about the today’s showings are quite ordinary – no screen curtains, no overtures, no intermissions, no exit music, no souvenir books, etc. The notion has lost much of its prestige.
The only advantage to having a reserved seat these days is that it assures you a seat at a special or likely-to-be-crowded showing. One pays a premium price but that does not always translate to a premium experience either in terms of the film or the ambiance. I have paid for a reserved seat tickets lately only to find the theater three-quarters empty.
According to the official website as 0f 10-12-2012, the needed funds to build a replacement for this theater could not be raised, and the lack of listings there implies that theater has closed.
According to the text near the bottom of this webpage, the Sioux City Community Theatre staged its productions at the Victory but this apparently ceased in 1965 or thereabouts. It is not clear if it was still operating at least part-time as a cinema when the community theater group was active there, but the reason that the community theatre group had to vacate may have been because the theater was already had been sold or slated for demolition prior to 1969.
An article about the theater’s reluctant and expensive conversion to digital can be read here.
There is a picture of a Hipp Theater in this montage of old theaters in Sioux Falls which may have been this theater. (The marquee for the Hippodrome in Cleveland read Hipp for years).
The Plaza can be seen at the top left in this photo montage of old historic theaters in Sioux Falls.
In Joe’s comment above, the link for the montage referred to in the second paragraph should have been this one.
Not to belabor the point, but if the comment being referred to is this one of April 26, 2011 at barbrasteisand.com, the only thing she says about ice cream is that “[the Kings] had…great ice cream cones.” Perhaps they were like a local version of Drumsticks.
There are some pictures of this former cinema on its page at CinemaTour.
A prospective buyer has come forward with plans to restore the Wheaton Grand if the sale goes through and a fund raising drive is successful: View article
There are two pictures of this theater on this webpage. At some point the signage was changed to read Comique Theatre.
There are two pictures related to the Mentor Drive=in on its gallery page at CinemaTour; (there is a third picture, but it is of the wrong drive-in).
Two local residents are spearheading an effort to restore this theater to use as live music and performance venue: View article
This video shows the interior of the HMS Raleigh Theatre.
A picture of the New Theatre can be seen on this webpage (scroll about one-third of the way down). According to the caption, it later became Decker’s Bar.
The Lincoln may have to close unless the owner can figure out a way to buy a digital projection system: View article
The Dome Theater may have to close if a solution is not found to the problem of financing a transition to digital projection: View article
This webpage article, written for the theater’s centennial, has a picture of the Old Opera House when it was the New Opera House.
This link will take you to a .pdf of a page of the Geneva Daily Times for December 26, 1918 that includes an article about improvements being made to the Regent; it also includes ads for the Regent and Fisher Theatres.
A view of the exterior can be seen on the bottom of this webpage, a photo of the lobby/concessions area can be seen here, one of the interior entrance is here, and a view of one of the auditoriums can be seen here.
Some additional historical detail about the the Alpha and a picture of it when was operating can be read and seen here.
This should probably be entered as Keith’s 105th Street Theatre, rather than the RKO Keith’s 105th Street Theatre (though that should be an AKA). I do not know when RKO gave it up, but I would guess it would have been about the same time they gave up the Palace in the early 1950’s, possibly in connection with the Consent Decree. I grew up in Cleveland in the 1950’s and 1960’s and it was always referred to then as Keith’s 105th, not the RKO Keith’s. It certainly was not under RKO management when it closed.
It may be that AMC merger agreement with Loews-Cineplex may have specified that the Loews name remain on some theaters or it may be similar to the choice made when Regal was formed to keep some theaters operating under the Edwards and UA brands just as Cinemark has kept (and opened) some theaters under the Century and Cine Arts labels. Or, perhaps, they just do not want to spend the money to have the theaters re-signed.
An interior photo of the Granada’s audtorium probably taken not long before the theater’s demolition can be seen here.
Here is a picture of the St. Charles Theater.
That photo of a ticket, shown above, picturing President Washington, is not a ticket to this theater. That 1889 event was at the second St. Charles Theater which was located on this theater’s site but which burned down in 1899.
This St. Charles Theatre was erected in 1902, was almost immediately renamed the Orpheum and then became the St. Charles again when Saenger chain took it over and the existing Orpheum on University Place opened. As noted above, this theater was demolished in 1965. It was located next door to the Liberty Theater, and a small portion the left edge of the St. Charles can be seen at the extreme right edge of this photo of the Liberty.
It may be just my opinion, but “reserved seats” as used today does not carry the same cachet as it did in the roadshow era, especially when everything else about the today’s showings are quite ordinary – no screen curtains, no overtures, no intermissions, no exit music, no souvenir books, etc. The notion has lost much of its prestige.
The only advantage to having a reserved seat these days is that it assures you a seat at a special or likely-to-be-crowded showing. One pays a premium price but that does not always translate to a premium experience either in terms of the film or the ambiance. I have paid for a reserved seat tickets lately only to find the theater three-quarters empty.