Fox Theatre

Going back to the entries of last November concerning the Life Magazine photo: Shot was taken the night of Friday March 30, 1951. The special midnight show was for the benefit of St. Louis policeman Aloysius Nelke, who had been paralyzed by a burglar’s bullet. As for the two children seen—1) It was a Friday night, no school on Saturday; 2) By themselves? I would think they were with the woman seen immediately behind them.

Here is a shot from 1959:

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I like this marquee better. More neon and fewer giant lions.

Wow! I think it looks great! Every bit as colorful and glamourous as it should be.

I spoke to the people at Fox Associates a couple of weeks ago about the possibility of restoring the roof sign. Theey said that, “ it was not being considered at this time because the metal scaffeling that holds it up is very deteriorated due to the age of the structure.”

I was close to six feet tall when I was 14. While waiting for my grandmother’s bus to arrive at the station in Philly one day, I paid a dollar and saw a couple of adult films at a grind house on Market Street. Not parentally approved activity.

I don’t think it was summer vacation. They look kind of cold.

This is an April 1951 photo of a St. Louis theater from Life Magazine. The theater is unidentified, but the marquee matches the photos of the Fox as seen above.
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FYI. Fox organist Stan Kann has nice obituary in the current Old Cars Weekly magazine written by Gerald Perschbacher.

It mentions his 22 year Fox career, memorial and scholarship fund set up at the theatre.

Also that he later had appeared a record 77 times on the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson, and 89 times on the Mike Douglas Show. “A vacuum cleaner & gadget collector who hilariously fumbled his way into the hearts of millions of Americans”. All of which was after his move to California.
He was also unbeknownst to most people, a car collector.

It further states that he “was hailed as the best known concert organist in North America”.

former resident:

I took a shot the “opening night”. Would be glad to forward to you, but I need an e-mail address. The lighting, incidentally, is red neon. As well, flood lighting of facade is functioning again. In other words, the theatre glows…quite a sight.

Theatre has just installed a new vertical…observed last night and, if not a reproduction of the original 1929 design, it sure comes close. Sign is yet to be lamped, so don’t know if it will feature neon or led/incandescent.

Stan Kaan ,the “HAPPIEST MAN” , and one of the MOST “Genuine ”, too
God Bless Stan, His Family , and Friends…he belongs to the Ages….

Pardon my ignorance: who is Mary?