Here is an article that was published at the time of theater’s opening: View link. The auditorium picture that is included within the article suggests to me that it was not a blu-ray operation.
I am hoping to find an article about its closing after just a few months that might shed some light on why it closed after such a short time in operation. Alvorado is a city of less than 5,000 people with about a third of them living on incomes below the poverty guideline, so it may be that the area finds it difficult to support the theater.
Thanks for confrming my guess, academy133. Name should be changed to Seo Dae Mun (or Seodaemun) Art Hall; description and status should be changed to closed.
This theater, like so many others, is threatened by the the impending move by the studios to only supply theaters with digital prints of films: View article
Here is an article about the theater’s closing as the AMC Huebner Oaks 24 and here is one about the theater’s reopening as the Huebner Oaks Stadium 14 & RPX.
Patsy, the article about the theater’s being saved from the 2009 fire is retrievable from the [Reporter-Herald archive](http://www.reporterherald.com/archivesearch], but there is a fee.
I think that there is a good chance that this theater is listed here on CT as the Dream Cinema; in both cases, the respective descriptions place the theaters in the Seodaemun part of the city, indicate that they are single screeners and had revival programming. In addition, both opened in 1964.
Here is an article that was published at the time of theater’s opening: View link. The auditorium picture that is included within the article suggests to me that it was not a blu-ray operation.
I am hoping to find an article about its closing after just a few months that might shed some light on why it closed after such a short time in operation. Alvorado is a city of less than 5,000 people with about a third of them living on incomes below the poverty guideline, so it may be that the area finds it difficult to support the theater.
Latest news about Boca Raton-based IPic Theaters plans to open a luxury six-plex at this location: View link View link
The reopening of this former Laemmle theater as a Sundance Cinema will occur on August 31, 2012: View article
Thanks for confrming my guess, academy133. Name should be changed to Seo Dae Mun (or Seodaemun) Art Hall; description and status should be changed to closed.
This is the website for the Electric Picture House Artists Collaborative which occupies the former theatre: View link
AMC has completed the conversion of thirteen screens at this theater to their version of dine-and-view: View article
Pictures and other information, especially for potential bidders, is here.
This theater, like so many others, is threatened by the the impending move by the studios to only supply theaters with digital prints of films: View article
This theater was evacuated on Sunday, July 12, 2012 when a portion of the facade came loose: View article and pictures.
A copy of the grand opening ad for the Metropolitan can be seen here.
Exterior view of the Silver Cinema: View link
Here is an article about the theater’s closing as the AMC Huebner Oaks 24 and here is one about the theater’s reopening as the Huebner Oaks Stadium 14 & RPX.
There is additional theatre history here and here, if one scrolls down about half-way.
There are some photos of the theater here; click on them to enlarge.
The Valley/Ord Cinema has become a restaurant/mixed-use venue: View article
This webpage, with information for potential bidders, includes a set of photos, inside and out.
Alamo Drafthouse confirms that it plans to convert the New Mission into one of their locations:
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View Article 2
Patsy, the article about the theater’s being saved from the 2009 fire is retrievable from the [Reporter-Herald archive](http://www.reporterherald.com/archivesearch], but there is a fee.
Chuck, I think you might have mistyped the link: this one works for me.
beachy: Some directories list a Cannarsa Organs, Inc. as having been located in Hollidaysburg. The company now appears to be located in Duncansville.
This photo appears to have been taken during a time when the theater was closed.
A picture of the Blair in 1953 is here.
This appears to be the photo to which Patsy refers in her comment of of November, 2005
I think that there is a good chance that this theater is listed here on CT as the Dream Cinema; in both cases, the respective descriptions place the theaters in the Seodaemun part of the city, indicate that they are single screeners and had revival programming. In addition, both opened in 1964.
Yes; that theater became the Showcase Cinemas Toledo.