I don’t know if 1520 is the correct address. As pointed out previously, the street name is Solano. There is a martial arts place at 1516 and a soul food restaurant at 1526. Down the street, on the odd side, is an interesting building with what looks to be a vertical blade. Lots of windows for a former theater building, though.
Addendum: There is an inscription of “McGavick Building 1900” on the top of the Mexican restaurant. Since the two buildings are essentially one piece, that would date this building back to the beginning of the twentieth century.
There is a Mexican restaurant, address 618 Fourth Street, immediately to the right of this building. After this building there are several parking lots. Although the building looks old given the ads on the side, it could be anywhere from 620-628 Fourth, meaning the theater adjacent to it would be demolished. This is all speculation, however. http://tinyurl.com/6ge3tu
Unless the address has changed, I would say this theater is gone. Stella’s Pizza is at 2332, and a transmission shop is next door at 2338. Connecting them is a stone arch with nothing behind it, which would be 2334.
I can’t find any current showtimes, but that’s not always definitive.
If you scroll about a quarter of the way down, there is an interesting treatise on the Rialto and some other El Dorado theaters here. It’s the first article in Volume 2 of the journal. http://tinyurl.com/6yk6ej
I don’t think that many people understand that you can find the photo on Google maps. I think people are more apt to click on the link than to surmise that they can see the photo on Google. Besides, three quarters of the country hasn’t been photographed yet. You would have to first go on Google, ascertain that the location has been photographed, and then determine that the building in the photo is the theater. Since many of the shots have the former theater off center, or not visible at all, I have done the work of following the arrows and figuring out which building is the theater. In cases where I can’t identify the former building, I don’t bother to post a photo.
I e-mailed Ms. Deane the other day and she was kind enough to send me a photo and an update on the theater, which is now used for community arts. She also allowed me to post her reply here. http://tinyurl.com/6y6957
Thanks for the interest in the Valley Theater. The good news is that it wasn’t destroyed and turned into a photography studio…
It is no longer a movie theater, but now a live theater. The Elkhorn
Valley Community Theater group has lovingly transformed it into a live theater. They’ve kept the integrity of the original building, but needed to replace the original seat…not comfy by todays standards and also the seat place for a movie theater is different than a live theater.
They also replaced the carpet and had to replace the original stage as a live theater stage is 4 ft higher. Topped it off with a new state of the art sound system…total of about $200,000 was spent so far. Everyone loves it and it’s brought new life to our community. They do a couple of productions a year and have teamed up with my art gallery where we cater a dinner in the Gallery and host Dinner/Theater nights….also dessert and coffee after the show.
Not exactly the dream we wanted…but nonetheless….our Theater is intact and new life has been brought to it.
I don’t know.
I don’t know if 1520 is the correct address. As pointed out previously, the street name is Solano. There is a martial arts place at 1516 and a soul food restaurant at 1526. Down the street, on the odd side, is an interesting building with what looks to be a vertical blade. Lots of windows for a former theater building, though.
Addendum: There is an inscription of “McGavick Building 1900” on the top of the Mexican restaurant. Since the two buildings are essentially one piece, that would date this building back to the beginning of the twentieth century.
There is a Mexican restaurant, address 618 Fourth Street, immediately to the right of this building. After this building there are several parking lots. Although the building looks old given the ads on the side, it could be anywhere from 620-628 Fourth, meaning the theater adjacent to it would be demolished. This is all speculation, however.
http://tinyurl.com/6ge3tu
There may have been a small building at 2336 that has glommed onto the tanning salon.
There’s nothing between 2332 and 2338. The pizza place looks too narrow to be a theater. The tanning building looks new.
There is another photo on this page. Happy Fourth from the Colonies!
http://tinyurl.com/5bvql4
The theater can be seen in this mini-documentary by Gary Graver, at approximately 4:30 minutes:
http://tinyurl.com/67k2zd
My mistake, it’s a tanning salon, not a transmission shop. The two are easily confused, of course.
Unless the address has changed, I would say this theater is gone. Stella’s Pizza is at 2332, and a transmission shop is next door at 2338. Connecting them is a stone arch with nothing behind it, which would be 2334.
I can’t find any current showtimes, but that’s not always definitive.
If you scroll about a quarter of the way down, there is an interesting treatise on the Rialto and some other El Dorado theaters here. It’s the first article in Volume 2 of the journal.
http://tinyurl.com/6yk6ej
I don’t think that many people understand that you can find the photo on Google maps. I think people are more apt to click on the link than to surmise that they can see the photo on Google. Besides, three quarters of the country hasn’t been photographed yet. You would have to first go on Google, ascertain that the location has been photographed, and then determine that the building in the photo is the theater. Since many of the shots have the former theater off center, or not visible at all, I have done the work of following the arrows and figuring out which building is the theater. In cases where I can’t identify the former building, I don’t bother to post a photo.
I don’t think so.
Here is an undated photo:
http://tinyurl.com/6hzd66
No, I don’t. I went to college in Philly, but I don’t recall this theater.
Here is an undated photo:
http://tinyurl.com/3k5ygl
Here is an undated photo:
http://tinyurl.com/4g5mh2
The building was for sale when this undated photo was taken:
http://tinyurl.com/4t5h74
Here is an undated photo:
http://tinyurl.com/4lud3r
This decrepit building may be the former Ambassador:
http://tinyurl.com/3qsaq5
There is a vintage photo on this page:
http://tinyurl.com/6h7mmo
I believe that this theater no longer exists, as was pointed out on 5/17/07. I can’t confirm that, however.
Here is a June 2008 photo:
http://tinyurl.com/58j24s
Here is a June 2008 photo:
http://tinyurl.com/6elcdx
I e-mailed Ms. Deane the other day and she was kind enough to send me a photo and an update on the theater, which is now used for community arts. She also allowed me to post her reply here.
http://tinyurl.com/6y6957
Thanks for the interest in the Valley Theater. The good news is that it wasn’t destroyed and turned into a photography studio…
It is no longer a movie theater, but now a live theater. The Elkhorn
Valley Community Theater group has lovingly transformed it into a live theater. They’ve kept the integrity of the original building, but needed to replace the original seat…not comfy by todays standards and also the seat place for a movie theater is different than a live theater.
They also replaced the carpet and had to replace the original stage as a live theater stage is 4 ft higher. Topped it off with a new state of the art sound system…total of about $200,000 was spent so far. Everyone loves it and it’s brought new life to our community. They do a couple of productions a year and have teamed up with my art gallery where we cater a dinner in the Gallery and host Dinner/Theater nights….also dessert and coffee after the show.
Not exactly the dream we wanted…but nonetheless….our Theater is intact and new life has been brought to it.
Sincerely,
Wendy Deane
Valley, NE