Hank, how well do you remember Northside theatres? My dad recalls there being about 2 or 3 theatres in the area, and so far we’ve narrowed down the Park (Alpha Fine Arts) and the Americus, the latter he id'ed from its proximity to the now-closed Crazy Ladies Bookstore on 4039 Hamilton. He insists there was another theatre across the street from the Park/Alpha. Was that the Liberty? I looked up Liberty in Ohio, and there aren’t any listings in the Cincinnati area, can you help?
I’m sorry, that assessment was wrong: it will be nothing like the old Culver – there will be one performance space, not two. Reading more carefully, what I should have said is that right now, they have only installed 99 seats in the auditorium while they go about the renovations, and that 300 seats will be the ultimate capacity of the room when it is finished.
“The auditorium, though, has largely been gutted. The seats were removed long ago and the balcony was torn down. The classic proscenium is in shabby shape. But the potential is enormous…[We can] convert the Garden into a state-of-the-art performance space with almost 300 seats…During the first phase we will create a 99-seat house with a platform stage within the larger auditorium. This will enable us to offer small-scale performances relatively soon—perhaps by this fall.”
Sounds a little like what went down with the former Culver theatre, which is now the Kirk Douglas theatre in Culver City – it will have a mainstage up front, but for the time being, they’re doing live stuff in a 99-seat room sitting at the back of the auditorium.
Dennis Cozzalio wrote a wonderful piece about visiting this childhood haunt of his…or at least it was wonderful until a clueless projectionist tried to slough off running a scope movie with a flat lens:
No, the theatre that was in FAST TIMES was the previous AMC complex at the old Galleria mall, before the whole thing was torn down and rebuilts as the current open-air shopping district with the Arclight Cinema.
This was, however, the theatre that appeared in “ENTOURAGE” when the ficticious AQUAMAN movie had it’s well-received premiere.
The article mentions another Echo Park area theatre…
“The other, The Globe Theater, opened in 1912 at 1624 Sunset Blvd. and eventually changed its name to The Hollyway, according to HistoricEchoPark.org. That building that once housed The Hollyway is now La Guadalupana market.”
I was looking for it in the listings, and I didn’t find this…unless I’m looking wrong. Is this building/location in the database, and if not, could a knowledgeable person enter it?
My close friend, film historian and blogger Ariel Schudson, would like to confirm what major films opened at the Egyptian from around 1985 to its initial closure in 1992. She wrote about the theatre in a recent post about the TCM festival this past April (http://sinaphile.wordpress.com/2011/05/28/this-is-the-night-and-the-days-tcm-classic-film-festival-part-ii/), but was not quite 100% sure about the movies she recalled seeing there as a teen. Since there have been such great exhaustive lists for the Westwood theatres and other L.A. locations, can some of the resident experts here help?
milamp: 1975 was when RETURN OF THE PINK PANTHER, not REVENGE, was released. (REVENGE was around 1979) As such, the downtown single screen you’re thinking of was probably the Times Towne Cinema – they got a lot of UA product back then.
This was originally a Mid-States theatre, like most of the first-run houses in Cincinnati that were not Showcases. Mid-States' entire operation ultimately got folded into Loews, and then Loews sold them all to National Amusements.
It just hit me – Northgate, Tri-County, Kenwood, 275 East…all the multiplexes in Cincinnati that National Amusements inherited from Loews are gutted or demolished. Wow, I am really old!
“The neighborhood’s most anticipated opening is a 10,000-square-foot bar and restaurant named Mohawk Bend that is slated to open in February and occupies the nearly 100-year-old movie theater across the street from Nicole Daddio’s cozy wine bar City Sip.”
So I guess that’s what’s happening with the Ramona now.
They are also embarking on some first-run programming, opening Chris Morris' controversial comedy FOUR LIONS on Friday November 5th, and the Asian/Indian restaurant comedy TODAY’S SPECIAL two weeks later on the 19th.
Hank, I straighted out your article – it’s referring to the 275 East Cinema in Milford which I just added. It started with 4 screens, and 8 more were planned but never built. It was located on 5874 Montclair Blvd, which may be what’s getting it confused with this listing.
Does anyone know if this is the same location as the 275 East, a Mid-States 4-plex that opened in the late ‘70’s? It was intended to grow into a 12-plex, but never progressed further than 4 screens.
I’ve been told by one of the performers of the Cincinnati ROCKY HORROR shadowcast that the screen in the largest auditorium is being replaced with a silver screen and being converted to digital projection, no doubt to accomodate the 3-D craze. Thankfully, it sounds like only this house is dropping 35mm projection; the other five houses will still be film.
Strangely enough, I remember when a silver screen was installed here during the ‘80’s 3-D revival, though I never saw a 3-D show there.
Reportedly, the Crest has been sold by Bucksbaum. He has hinted that the neighborhood will be happy with the new proprietors, but did not say if that meant that the building will continue as a theatre or some other business. EAT PRAY LOVE will as such be the last film to play under his stewardship.
Mann probably would like to cut their Chinese showtimes down, but that would probably irritate the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce, who would want the place to retain normal and full theatre hours out of accomodation to the thousands of tourists that walk the streets, even though few of them are likely to buy a ticket.
In the case of Grandview, the Drexel operators had a dispute with the landlord and chose to leave the operation; a former employee decided to make a new deal with the owner of the building and renovate/reopen the theatre.
In the case of the Arena Grand and the Gateway, Jeff Frank was hired by the developers of those commercial districts to design the theatres, as well as book, staff, and run them. After a few years, I can only fathom that the developers thought they could find people to do the job better than Jeff, and dispensed with his services. Granted, I am prejudiced because I had a long and happy relationship working for him, but I have always felt it was rather rude and unceremonious of these consortiums to cut him out after he contributed so much time and energy in launching their theatres.
The Drexel Theatre facade also provides the base for the cover painting of the Mark Knopfler compilation album of movie score music “Screenplaying,” though specific details that would i.d. the theatre have been altered. When I worked there, I was flattered that somebody at the record label was a fan of the theatre, but annoyed that they never credited us as the source of the image.
Perhaps the motel operators had some sort of legal claim on their spelling of “carrousel,” and the theatre operators wanted to still try to piggyback on the perceived popularity of the motel, so they went to the single-r spelling.
Granted, because of its new name perhaps don’t recognize it as the Place or The Movies, but I’m surprised that years after my submission, no one has any comments about this longtime Cincinnati favorite.
Hank, how well do you remember Northside theatres? My dad recalls there being about 2 or 3 theatres in the area, and so far we’ve narrowed down the Park (Alpha Fine Arts) and the Americus, the latter he id'ed from its proximity to the now-closed Crazy Ladies Bookstore on 4039 Hamilton. He insists there was another theatre across the street from the Park/Alpha. Was that the Liberty? I looked up Liberty in Ohio, and there aren’t any listings in the Cincinnati area, can you help?
What’s happening with the property? Have they gutted it yet, or is there a chance someone will pick it up as Vintage did with the Exchange?
I’m sorry, that assessment was wrong: it will be nothing like the old Culver – there will be one performance space, not two. Reading more carefully, what I should have said is that right now, they have only installed 99 seats in the auditorium while they go about the renovations, and that 300 seats will be the ultimate capacity of the room when it is finished.
According to this article, apparently the balcony is gone:
http://www.columbusunderground.com/short-north-stage-to-reopen-garden-theatre-as-arts-venue-in-2012
“The auditorium, though, has largely been gutted. The seats were removed long ago and the balcony was torn down. The classic proscenium is in shabby shape. But the potential is enormous…[We can] convert the Garden into a state-of-the-art performance space with almost 300 seats…During the first phase we will create a 99-seat house with a platform stage within the larger auditorium. This will enable us to offer small-scale performances relatively soon—perhaps by this fall.”
Sounds a little like what went down with the former Culver theatre, which is now the Kirk Douglas theatre in Culver City – it will have a mainstage up front, but for the time being, they’re doing live stuff in a 99-seat room sitting at the back of the auditorium.
Dennis Cozzalio wrote a wonderful piece about visiting this childhood haunt of his…or at least it was wonderful until a clueless projectionist tried to slough off running a scope movie with a flat lens:
http://sergioleoneifr.blogspot.com/2011/08/once-again-into-lobby-return-visit-to.html
No, the theatre that was in FAST TIMES was the previous AMC complex at the old Galleria mall, before the whole thing was torn down and rebuilts as the current open-air shopping district with the Arclight Cinema.
This was, however, the theatre that appeared in “ENTOURAGE” when the ficticious AQUAMAN movie had it’s well-received premiere.
Apparently the live operators have departed, and the theatre is vacant and available.
The article mentions another Echo Park area theatre…
“The other, The Globe Theater, opened in 1912 at 1624 Sunset Blvd. and eventually changed its name to The Hollyway, according to HistoricEchoPark.org. That building that once housed The Hollyway is now La Guadalupana market.”
I was looking for it in the listings, and I didn’t find this…unless I’m looking wrong. Is this building/location in the database, and if not, could a knowledgeable person enter it?
My close friend, film historian and blogger Ariel Schudson, would like to confirm what major films opened at the Egyptian from around 1985 to its initial closure in 1992. She wrote about the theatre in a recent post about the TCM festival this past April (http://sinaphile.wordpress.com/2011/05/28/this-is-the-night-and-the-days-tcm-classic-film-festival-part-ii/), but was not quite 100% sure about the movies she recalled seeing there as a teen. Since there have been such great exhaustive lists for the Westwood theatres and other L.A. locations, can some of the resident experts here help?
milamp: 1975 was when RETURN OF THE PINK PANTHER, not REVENGE, was released. (REVENGE was around 1979) As such, the downtown single screen you’re thinking of was probably the Times Towne Cinema – they got a lot of UA product back then.
This was originally a Mid-States theatre, like most of the first-run houses in Cincinnati that were not Showcases. Mid-States' entire operation ultimately got folded into Loews, and then Loews sold them all to National Amusements.
It just hit me – Northgate, Tri-County, Kenwood, 275 East…all the multiplexes in Cincinnati that National Amusements inherited from Loews are gutted or demolished. Wow, I am really old!
From a recent L.A. Times story on the new popularity of the Echo Park neighborhood:
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“The neighborhood’s most anticipated opening is a 10,000-square-foot bar and restaurant named Mohawk Bend that is slated to open in February and occupies the nearly 100-year-old movie theater across the street from Nicole Daddio’s cozy wine bar City Sip.”
So I guess that’s what’s happening with the Ramona now.
They are also embarking on some first-run programming, opening Chris Morris' controversial comedy FOUR LIONS on Friday November 5th, and the Asian/Indian restaurant comedy TODAY’S SPECIAL two weeks later on the 19th.
I could be mistaken, but isn’t this drive-in still open?
/theaters/18110/
Amelia is essentially the Cincinnati area after all.
Hank, I straighted out your article – it’s referring to the 275 East Cinema in Milford which I just added. It started with 4 screens, and 8 more were planned but never built. It was located on 5874 Montclair Blvd, which may be what’s getting it confused with this listing.
Never mind, I dug a little deeper – the address for that place was 5874 Montclair Blvd, now a church.
Does anyone know if this is the same location as the 275 East, a Mid-States 4-plex that opened in the late ‘70’s? It was intended to grow into a 12-plex, but never progressed further than 4 screens.
On a whim, I typed the address into Google, and Google Earth Maps yielded this photograph:
http://www.panoramio.com/photo/6163970
Where would the Paramount have been? Where the CVS drugstore is now?
I’ve been told by one of the performers of the Cincinnati ROCKY HORROR shadowcast that the screen in the largest auditorium is being replaced with a silver screen and being converted to digital projection, no doubt to accomodate the 3-D craze. Thankfully, it sounds like only this house is dropping 35mm projection; the other five houses will still be film.
Strangely enough, I remember when a silver screen was installed here during the ‘80’s 3-D revival, though I never saw a 3-D show there.
Reportedly, the Crest has been sold by Bucksbaum. He has hinted that the neighborhood will be happy with the new proprietors, but did not say if that meant that the building will continue as a theatre or some other business. EAT PRAY LOVE will as such be the last film to play under his stewardship.
Mann probably would like to cut their Chinese showtimes down, but that would probably irritate the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce, who would want the place to retain normal and full theatre hours out of accomodation to the thousands of tourists that walk the streets, even though few of them are likely to buy a ticket.
In the case of Grandview, the Drexel operators had a dispute with the landlord and chose to leave the operation; a former employee decided to make a new deal with the owner of the building and renovate/reopen the theatre.
In the case of the Arena Grand and the Gateway, Jeff Frank was hired by the developers of those commercial districts to design the theatres, as well as book, staff, and run them. After a few years, I can only fathom that the developers thought they could find people to do the job better than Jeff, and dispensed with his services. Granted, I am prejudiced because I had a long and happy relationship working for him, but I have always felt it was rather rude and unceremonious of these consortiums to cut him out after he contributed so much time and energy in launching their theatres.
The Drexel Theatre facade also provides the base for the cover painting of the Mark Knopfler compilation album of movie score music “Screenplaying,” though specific details that would i.d. the theatre have been altered. When I worked there, I was flattered that somebody at the record label was a fan of the theatre, but annoyed that they never credited us as the source of the image.
Perhaps the motel operators had some sort of legal claim on their spelling of “carrousel,” and the theatre operators wanted to still try to piggyback on the perceived popularity of the motel, so they went to the single-r spelling.
Granted, because of its new name perhaps don’t recognize it as the Place or The Movies, but I’m surprised that years after my submission, no one has any comments about this longtime Cincinnati favorite.
Duh, I’m an idiot; I wrote that listing!
/theaters/9122/
Not sure if these two should be merged, since the land is the same but the styles are different.