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As the theater headed into bankruptcy, Baldridge faced new problems.
On Sept. 12, a Labor Department investigator showed up at Baldridge’s Dallas office in hopes — unsuccessful that day and since, according to court documents — of retrieving a number of documents related to a 401(k) plan tied to one of his companies.
About a week before Christmas, the theater owner was arrested again. Police noticed that Baldridge driving his silver four-door Lexus on the wrong side of the road.
He was stopped in the theater parking lot just after midnight and charged with driving while intoxicated. He spent the next 12 hours in jail.
Woodward showed up for work at the Metro Cinema on Jan. 18, one day after the Texas comptroller’s office seized a few computers and point-of-sale machines for nonpayment of state taxes. Without the machines, it was impossible to sell movie tickets, Woodward said.
So, he and a couple of other managers tried to call Baldridge to find out what to do next. They couldn’t reach him.
Without direction, Woodward and another manager printed signs at a nearby Kinko’s and taped them to the door, telling customers that the theater was closed indefinitely.
Even when times looked tough for the theater, Baldridge had remained positive, Woodward said. He was fond of telling employees, “I’m not going anywhere.”
But Woodward still wondered.
“I had that gut feeling, ‘This probably isn’t going to be around much longer,’” he said. “But it definitely happened a lot sooner than I thought.”
The Grand opening ad for the Chelsea West has the same design and slogon as Carrefour Dorion 8 near Montreal. The ad can be found on page 3 of this document at http://movie-theatre.org/canada/qc/valleyfield.pdf
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has a picture of what’s left.
This is at 230 Cherry Street.
This cinema opened in 1993
This cinema opened on August 6th, 1969 with Cinema 1 having the Cinerama movies. 4 cinemas in 1974
the old building was on Frontage Road and replaced by the 7-plex on Marsh Hill Road in 1983.
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shows what’s left.
FormerFlixGuy
This was the last building spree by Cineplex Odeon, They built this one, Quartier Latin 17 and St. Bruno 11 in the Montréal area, the South Keys 12 in Ottawa, The renovention of the Varsity in Toronto, Ajax 10, 401/Morningside, the Canyon Meadows 10 in Calgary, which they lost when they failed to pay the rent, and the 3 theatres built with the partnership on Inner City Entertainment in Chicago. All the grand opening ads had the same design. In 1998 they merged with Loew’s.
This closed in December, 2007 when it could not handle the StarCite and the 3 nearby Guzzos.
I have double checked, Vito and find that I was wrong, what is the real addres #?
according to warren’s View link the theatre was at 377a South Oyster Bay Road
Harry Brandt booked the Trans-Lux Theatres.
Picture at http://flickr.com/photos/masurkar/1515811144/
It is quite nice looking.
the best I read about the old Pussycat circuit.
The grand opening ad is at View link It opened on October 13th, 2006
6.5 million USD and it is yours View link
Article: at View link
As the theater headed into bankruptcy, Baldridge faced new problems.
On Sept. 12, a Labor Department investigator showed up at Baldridge’s Dallas office in hopes — unsuccessful that day and since, according to court documents — of retrieving a number of documents related to a 401(k) plan tied to one of his companies.
About a week before Christmas, the theater owner was arrested again. Police noticed that Baldridge driving his silver four-door Lexus on the wrong side of the road.
He was stopped in the theater parking lot just after midnight and charged with driving while intoxicated. He spent the next 12 hours in jail.
Woodward showed up for work at the Metro Cinema on Jan. 18, one day after the Texas comptroller’s office seized a few computers and point-of-sale machines for nonpayment of state taxes. Without the machines, it was impossible to sell movie tickets, Woodward said.
So, he and a couple of other managers tried to call Baldridge to find out what to do next. They couldn’t reach him.
Without direction, Woodward and another manager printed signs at a nearby Kinko’s and taped them to the door, telling customers that the theater was closed indefinitely.
Even when times looked tough for the theater, Baldridge had remained positive, Woodward said. He was fond of telling employees, “I’m not going anywhere.”
But Woodward still wondered.
“I had that gut feeling, ‘This probably isn’t going to be around much longer,’” he said. “But it definitely happened a lot sooner than I thought.”
This theatre was at 2166 forest avenue.
I have uploaded the theatres sections at the 1950 yearbook at www.movie-theatre.org/1year/1950.zip
It weighs in at 55Megs.
It will take 10 minutes to download itat a 1MBPS broadband connection
the 1941 edition is at View link buy hurry, bidding ends tonite.
Lost Memory, here is the postive image at http://flickr.com/photos/30943004@N00/2321802482/
Hollywood90038, where are your pictures?
The Grand opening ad for the Chelsea West has the same design and slogon as Carrefour Dorion 8 near Montreal. The ad can be found on page 3 of this document at http://movie-theatre.org/canada/qc/valleyfield.pdf
Employee tribute video at http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=ow49P5BfXik
This cinema closed in 2007.
This address, 1660 US Route 22 makes google map it properly
The “Red Carpet”, Flagship and “Blue Ribbon” were not chains but sets of movies from an studio that a theatre rented.
7 stadium seating cinemas in 2007.
No showtimes anywhere online as of October 2007. Is this cinema closed?
This theatre was sold to Dickinson theatres in 2006 to pay for the expansion of the Fremont cinemas.