Comment on Facebook by a former Bijou patron: “I remember going to Bijou’s when I was a kid. Upon entering the theater the candy and popcorn counter was on your right. Straight past the counter was the first level of the theater. On your right of the counter was a stairway to the second level seating.”
Poster to the left of the door is for the 1917 film “The Rise of Jennie Cushing.” The fire was reported on September 4, 1918. The theatre would be restored and continue operating for a few more years before being put to other uses.
A second run movie theatre and at the same time a showplace for popular French films that played hardly anywhere else.
Courtesy Brian Edmund Guiot.
Courtesy Brian Edmund Guiot.
Comment on Facebook by a former Bijou patron: “I remember going to Bijou’s when I was a kid. Upon entering the theater the candy and popcorn counter was on your right. Straight past the counter was the first level of the theater. On your right of the counter was a stairway to the second level seating.”
Can be seen on YouTube, complete, subtitled.
If that film was “Your Fighting Navy”, the year was 1918.
William S. Hart in “The Primal Lure”, 1916.
This part of downtown Fall River was pretty much decimated by the construction of Interstate 195.
There were lots of newspaper listings like this around that time.
This can be seen on YouTube with subtitles and is fascinating. Released that terrible year of 1939.
I just re-watched it on YouTube and it is still a delight!
There is another photo posted of the marquee in 1941, with the film “Sis Hopkins” playing.
Poster to the left of the door is for the 1917 film “The Rise of Jennie Cushing.” The fire was reported on September 4, 1918. The theatre would be restored and continue operating for a few more years before being put to other uses.
The theatre would be restored after the fire and continue operating for a few more years.
Update: The Auburn Theatre opened on December 4, 1912 according to an ad and article in the Providence Journal.
A longer article on the theatre appears in this newspaper issue.
Original British titles: “Laxdale Hall” (John Eldridge) and “Emergency Call” (Lewis Gilbert".
“Arizona Wildcat” was a 1939 movie.
“Arizona Wildcat” was a 1939 movie.
Roddy would have been about seventeen at this time.
Circa 1915.
Circa 1946. Film titles are from 1941 and 1946. Errol Flynn in “The Sea Hawk” (1940), maybe, next door at the Scollay Square.
Circa 1871.
“I figli di nessuno,” silent era version.
“The Lash” was a 1930 film.