Excerpt from 2-5-09 Chicago Tribune, article “Director Ken Kwapis talks about the blizzard of ‘79 and Gene Siskel”
Director Ken Kwapis, a Belleville native, took time while promoting “He’s Just Not That Into You,” starring Jennifer Aniston, Ben Affleck and a host of others, to talk to the Tribune about his formative years in Chicago and directing the late Gene Siskel on “The Larry Sanders Show.”
“For quite a while, I managed the Three Penny Theater on Lincoln Avenue, right across from the Biograph,” Kwapis said. “I managed the theater during the blizzard of 1979. We were running John Carpenter’s film ‘Halloween,’ and like many theaters during the blizzard, we didn’t change the feature, because there was no point.
“So I could basically set my clock to ‘Halloween.’ Sitting in the lobby, I would play a game with myself. Without looking at my watch, I’d say, ‘Jamie Lee Curtis is just about to scream,’ then I’d open the door and she’d scream. I knew the film down to the quarter of the minute.”
Kwapis said the management running the Three Penny couldn’t make up its mind about the theater’s focus.
“The schedule was absurd. One week we’d show a new art film, say a Werner Herzog film, and the next week we’d run a porno feature. And the owner could never understand why we couldn’t develop an audience. I said, ‘Well, they’re totally confused, nobody knows what we’re showing.’ ”
It looks like Lincoln Village is done. The property was transferred to CHEDER LUBAVITCH HEBREW DAY SCHOOL on 11/20/2008, according to a deed filed 12/16/2008. There is a deed restriction that the property may not be sold until 11/20/2011.
Yeah, at that time they said they had discontinued that practice. I don’t see anything wrong with it. It’s his business, let him run it as he pleases. The theater’s gotten a lot of publicity as a result. The rest of my Grand Lake set is here: View link I’m rather proud of my interiors (although I’m not terribly fond of the paint finishes they used)
This link explains how it works. It’s fully automated. If they waited, they would just snarl traffic and make the situation worse. You have to pass the truck/bus at some point, and piling up cars behind you doesn’t help matters. Not to mention that the intended purpose of Street View is to give some idea of what an area looks like rather than providing researchers like us detailed photos. I’m sure technology will have advanced considerably in a few years time, anyway. I’ve heard that they are outfitting some vehicles with laser cannons now to make 3D object mapping possible – like really high-resolution sonar. That sort of thing will provide us with considerably more detail.
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The New Years Eve show was one such rental.
Excerpt from 2-5-09 Chicago Tribune, article “Director Ken Kwapis talks about the blizzard of ‘79 and Gene Siskel”
Director Ken Kwapis, a Belleville native, took time while promoting “He’s Just Not That Into You,” starring Jennifer Aniston, Ben Affleck and a host of others, to talk to the Tribune about his formative years in Chicago and directing the late Gene Siskel on “The Larry Sanders Show.”
“For quite a while, I managed the Three Penny Theater on Lincoln Avenue, right across from the Biograph,” Kwapis said. “I managed the theater during the blizzard of 1979. We were running John Carpenter’s film ‘Halloween,’ and like many theaters during the blizzard, we didn’t change the feature, because there was no point.
“So I could basically set my clock to ‘Halloween.’ Sitting in the lobby, I would play a game with myself. Without looking at my watch, I’d say, ‘Jamie Lee Curtis is just about to scream,’ then I’d open the door and she’d scream. I knew the film down to the quarter of the minute.”
Kwapis said the management running the Three Penny couldn’t make up its mind about the theater’s focus.
“The schedule was absurd. One week we’d show a new art film, say a Werner Herzog film, and the next week we’d run a porno feature. And the owner could never understand why we couldn’t develop an audience. I said, ‘Well, they’re totally confused, nobody knows what we’re showing.’ ”
-via David E. Zornig
Abt is indicating that they were founded there in 1936, not that the photo is from 1936.
It looks like Lincoln Village is done. The property was transferred to CHEDER LUBAVITCH HEBREW DAY SCHOOL on 11/20/2008, according to a deed filed 12/16/2008. There is a deed restriction that the property may not be sold until 11/20/2011.
Well, the newspaper articles quoted Costco as having no interest in the site, and said that the surrounding planned lifestyle center hinged upon it
A chicago lot is about 20 feet wide. Most theatre buildings and entrances span at least 2 lots. So addresses are interchangeable.
There was this in the Chicago Journal: It was declared a Chicago Landmark.
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Also listed today as one of Preservation Chicago’s Seven Most Endangered
Something like the Hotel La Salle garage that was at Washington and Wells? View link
I believe it is original
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Yeah, at that time they said they had discontinued that practice. I don’t see anything wrong with it. It’s his business, let him run it as he pleases. The theater’s gotten a lot of publicity as a result. The rest of my Grand Lake set is here: View link I’m rather proud of my interiors (although I’m not terribly fond of the paint finishes they used)
This link explains how it works. It’s fully automated. If they waited, they would just snarl traffic and make the situation worse. You have to pass the truck/bus at some point, and piling up cars behind you doesn’t help matters. Not to mention that the intended purpose of Street View is to give some idea of what an area looks like rather than providing researchers like us detailed photos. I’m sure technology will have advanced considerably in a few years time, anyway. I’ve heard that they are outfitting some vehicles with laser cannons now to make 3D object mapping possible – like really high-resolution sonar. That sort of thing will provide us with considerably more detail.
They’re cars with camera domes on top. It would be really uneconomical to actually survey and photograph everything by foot.
that should appear Image
a likely photo of this appears in the journal The American City, feb 1916, p 161. Here
View link It will probably come back. Also the Village locations in Tennessee were operated by Visionary.
Can we agree now that changing this listing to “Visionary” was premature, since it was only a name used on the telephone for about a month?
Postings from the Bristol TN theatres indicate that Russo is a former general manager for Village.
The 2009 CTA calendar features this image for August: View link
The 2009 CTA calendar features that image for August: View link
The Golf Glen is probably about 70% into a dramatic remodeling right now. It appears to be a partnership between Phoenix and Adlabs.
North and Pulaski, the New Apollo theater and the Pioneer Arcade across the street
Sacramento doesn’t meet North, it turns into Humboldt Blvd there. Are you thinking of the Art Moderne National Guard building at Kedzie?