Thank you for posting.
It is still a strip club.
I posted one exterior photo provided by Deja Vu Showgirls from their Yelp page, which has interior photos.
Their website also has interior photos.
Copy & paste to view.
Grace, click on “(view all 30 comments)” at the top next to “Recent comments”.
Then scroll back to the one posted by JRS40 on September 5, 2008 at 11:18 pm.
It is a list of all the films from 1964-1977 that played at the Surf and Playboy.
Screen grab added.
Arnold Schwarzenegger Filming A Scene From His Movie Debut, “Hercules In New York,” Outside Of The New Yorker Theater, 1969. (Cinematography By Leo Lebowitz.) Via Ruben Iglesias.
Appears to be closing as of September 30th 2015. Via the Old Town Facebook page. Copy & paste to view.
http://www.windycitymediagroup.com/lgbt/Chicagos-Bijou-Theater-to-close-Sept-30-/52762.html
Thank you for posting. It is still a strip club. I posted one exterior photo provided by Deja Vu Showgirls from their Yelp page, which has interior photos.
Their website also has interior photos. Copy & paste to view.
http://dejavu-spokane.com/
This link has a 1959 photo with the Gothic Theatre in the background. Photo will enlarge on that page. Copy & paste to view.
http://www.imperialclub.com/Yr/1959/Majestic/index.htm
Photo will enlarge in this link.
http://www.imperialclub.com/Yr/1959/Majestic/index.htm
Two 1950 photos added, photo source Chicago-Photographic Images of Change Collection-University of Illinois at Chicago.
Mid `50’s photo added, photo credit John Szarkowski, from his book ‘The Idea of Louis Sullivan’.
This obit is from 2010. But is has a photo of house organist Rosa Rio at the organ. Copy & paste to view.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/15/arts/music/15rio.html?_r=3
Circa 1953 photo added, courtesy of the AmeriCar The Beautiful Facebook page.
Circa 1953 photo added, courtesy of the AmeriCar The Beautiful Facebook page.
1945 photo added, photo credit Hollywood Historic Photos.
1972 print ad added courtesy of Keith West.
Grace, click on “(view all 30 comments)” at the top next to “Recent comments”. Then scroll back to the one posted by JRS40 on September 5, 2008 at 11:18 pm. It is a list of all the films from 1964-1977 that played at the Surf and Playboy.
1986 photo added courtesy of Steve Thomas.
1986 photo added, photo credit Stephen Harmon.
Circa 1930’s photo added, Ottendorfer Branch of the NYPL. Photo credit Victor Volnar/NYPL
1972 photo added, photo credit Henry Bonham Houchins.
1952 marquee photo added, photo credit Gordon Parks.
1978 photo as the Forum added, photo source unknown. Appears to be from a book.
1964 photo added, photo credit National Geographic Magazine.
1952 photo added, photo by Weegee (Arthur Fellig).
Screen grab added. Arnold Schwarzenegger Filming A Scene From His Movie Debut, “Hercules In New York,” Outside Of The New Yorker Theater, 1969. (Cinematography By Leo Lebowitz.) Via Ruben Iglesias.
Undated marquee photo added, photo credit Stephen Harmon.
December 1969 photo added, photo credit Amalie Rothschild, via New York Historical.
Scale model added of the Roxy auditorium displayed at the Museum of the Moving Image in Queens. Photo credit and copy Jeffrey Nickora.
10/28/54 photo credit Frank Larson. Website below. Copy & paste to view this and his other works.
http://franklarsonphotos.com/