The Lindsey Building was the second home of the New Bonifay Theatre, relaunching there on February 21, 1936. But the Bonifay’s second location would be its shortest of three locations burning down on December 17, 1942. Operator Al Saunders vowed to rebuild despite War-time material shortages. He would deliver a new Bonifay which has its own CinemaTreasure page.
The venue opened as the Skydome Theater, an open-air destination for African American fans of films, live entertainment and boxing in 1925. Wometco took on the venue making it a hardtop called the Harlem Theatre likely in 1933. Wometco closed the Capitol Theatre in downtown and moved the marquee to the Harlem which was renamed the Capitol for its September 6, 1953 relaunch.
The Lindsey Building is the home of the New Bonifay Theatre, the second and newest home in 1936. Spoiler alert: it will burn down less than ten years later and get replaced by a third Bonifay Theatre.
The Ernada Theatre was opened ny Hugh Wear on February 1, 1924 with Mary Philbin in “The Merry-Go-Round.” Louise Gautier was the opening keyboardist. The architect was W.B. Talley and built by W.C. Robertson & Co. At its launch, Marquis Amusement Circuit operated the 736-seat venue.
Operator Vance Marquis proved himself a masterful political tactician when he was requested to equip the theater for sound i 1929. He said without Sunday screenings prevented by local blue laws, he couldn’t afford to do so. The town put that on the ballot and it passed. on April 14, 1929, the Ernada’s new Photophone sound system of North Vernon, Indiana playing, “The Broadway Melody” as its first talkie. The theater refreshed reducing seat count to 663.
New manager Leonard Bennett took on the house with a major streamlined moderne makeover in September of 1936 including a much improved Western Electric sound system. Now seating 600, the venue was rechristened as the Ritz Theater. Florida State Theatres operated the venue in the 1940s, 50s, and 60s. But ads are discontinued in December of 1965 which may - or may not - be indicative of its closure.
The July 2, 1916 Grand Opening ad for the New Frolic Theatre is posted as the venue booked Eleanor Woodruff in “Britton of the Seventh” supported by a Charlie Chaplin short. All 1,000 seats were filled for the opener. The previous home of the Frolic was just three doors down at the Knights of Phythias Hall for three years. Its success with African American patrons spawned the construction of the new house.
This photo is at the State Theatre on February 23, 1952. Autry was in town performing with his horse, Champion, at the Orange Bowl and stopped by the venue.
This photo is at the State Theatre on February 23, 1952. Autry was in town performing with his horse, Champion, at the Orange Bowl and stopped by the venue.
You are correct. The closure and story about the theater’s impending demise were printed but there was an eleventh hour appeal made of the demolition’s starting point when there weren’t enough homes provided for displaced elderly residents. The theatre did reopen before Big Chief Demolition came back in and wiped out “Good Bread Alley” finally taking the Capitol Theatre and everything around it early in 1975.
Locals called the urban renewal plan simply a means by which the local government would allow the displacement and destruction of African American neighbors and neighborhoods. Final showtimes for the Capitol are corrected as occurring January 28, 1975 with a double feature of “Savage Streets” and “Street Gangs of Hong Kong.”
Regal Phillips Place closed March 16, 2020 along with the rest of Regal’s locations for the COVID-19 pandemic. It opened for a week in October of 2020 only to close again with the rest of the Cineworld/Regal locations. It reopened one more time on May 14, 2021. But “Halloween Ends” - the final installment of the horror series - also ended Regal’s run here on October 16, 2022 with the chain trying to re-emerge from bankruptcy declared the previous month.
SBC Management Corporation of Boston built a new cinema twin in Burlington Plaza Shopping Center in 1970. The plaza contained a Mammoth Mart and Martin’s Foods as anchors opening the new Center in 1969. The twin screen Cinema 1-2 was opened on May 22, 1970 with 35mm & 70mm capability. It was operated by SBC Corp. The opening movies were “MASH” & “Goodbye Mr. Chips”. The theatre had around 700 seats with pushback chairs and featured an art gallery that would feature local artists. About a year later, Carrol’s Development Corporation launched the Carrol’s Cinema Plaza 1 & 2 on July 28, 1971 across from the Zayre Shopping Center that would become the University Mall by decade’s end. It has its own Cinema Treasure page.
“Star Wars” was a huge hit for the Burlington Plaza Cinema opening on July 13, 1977. SBC added a third screen in late May of 1981 becoming a triplex as twin-screeners were not cutting it as the multiplex era was opening. It became the Cinema 1•2•3. Merrill Theatres, which had taken on the twin-screen Century Plaza followed that up by twinning its largest screen in June 1981 also becoming a triplex.
Hoyts Circuit took on the venue in 1987 continuing as the Cinema 1•2•3. But Hoyts closed at the end of lease on September 4, 1989 with “Batman,” Lethal Weapon 2" and “Eddie and the Cruisers 2.” Neighboring Martin’s grocery store took on the space in an expansion. Hoyts would make a major move acquiring the Merrill Theatres and taking over - among other venues - the competing Century Plaza triplex - in 1994 though closing it in 1995.
Closed on December 13, 1973 with a double-feature of “The Black Six” with Mike Angel and Rod Dana in “Kill or Be Killed.” The wrecking ball struck days later.
Merrill’s Showcase 5 closed at the end of a 30-year leasing cycle on July 31, 2004 with “The Notebook,” “I, Robot,” “Anchorman,” “The Terminal,” “Fahrenheit 9/11,” and “Catwoman.”
Carrol’s Development Corporation launched the Carrol’s Cinema Plaza 1 & 2 on July 28, 1971. It was constructed in the era of twins, triplexes and quads in cinema exhibition history. This period featured theaters that were often built with comfortable seating and automated projection equipment. These venues were often found near or in shopping centers and malls and Carroll’s Cinema Plaza 1 & 2 was no exception. The Cinema was on Dorset Street (one “t” in the street name) across from a shopping center with a large Zayre’s store, a Wilson’s Home Center and a Shop ‘n’ Save. A year earlier, SBC had opened a competing twin-screen less than three miles away which has its own Cinema Treasure page.
Carrol’s opening films on July 28, 1971 were Ben the Rat in “Willard” and Sean Connery in “The Anderson Tapes” The new-build venue featured rocking chair seats and a 1970’s friendly color scheme. Carroll’s left the cinema building in late December of 1973 and the theatre was renamed as the Plaza I & II. With the Burlington Plaza 1 & 2 still operating less than three miles away, there may have been a trace of confusion. But about one year later, Merrill Jarvis of Merrill’s Theater Circuit took over the Plaza I & II renaming it as the Century Plaza 1 & 2 in December of 1974 for more distinction in the naming.
Across the street, the University Mall was breaking ground expanding the Zayre complex on March 16, 1977 reshaping the retail landscape. The Mall launched in 1979. SBC’s competing Cinema 1 & 2 on Shelburg added a third screen in late May of 1981 becoming a triplex as twin-screeners were not cutting it as the multiplex era was opening. So Merrill closed its twin-screen Century Plaza in June briefly with the venue also re-emerging as a triplex, now the Century Plaza 3 on June 21, 1981 in time to play a big summer film in “Superman.” As a triplex, Screen 1 had 303 seats, Screen 2 had 200 seats and Screen 3 had 100 seats for a total of 603 total seats.
In February of 1994, Hoyts Theatre Circuit bought Merrill Theater Circuit including the Century Plaza. It was called Hoyt’s Century Plaza 3 with Hoyt positioning the venue as an art house. But the property was too hot for the aging triplex and Hoyt’s closed on October 12, 1995 with Patrick Stewart in “Jeffrey,” Kevin Spacey in “The Usual Suspects,” and Edward Burns in “The Brothers McMullen.” Demolition was soon commenced as a Barnes and Noble Book Sellers store was built there. It was still in operation in the 2020s.
On September 6, 1953, the Harlem Theatre became the streamline moderne Capitol Theatre for Wometco Theatres with Tony Curtis in “Houdini.” It was likely at the renewal of the theater’s 20-year lease which would place its possible opening by Wometco in 1933.
In a moment highlighting the Miami police’s decade’s long hostile track record on race relations, the police shuttered the Harlem Theater’s March 17, 1934 just prior to an integrated audience show exclusively with African American performers. Over 2,000 patrons showed up for that evening’s show and so did Miami police who said they would arrest all of the African American cast members if they presented the show with any White patrons in the audience. Wometco was outraged by the late notice cancellation and said that the Lyric Theatre had a similar show without incident in 1932 (that ad is posted under the Lyric’s Cinema Treasure page). But the circuit couldn’t find a judge to intervene at the 11th hour and the show was cancelled with refunds given.
The show was then rescheduled on March 21 and 22, 1934 with Wometco both gaining an injunction and vowing to donate proceeds to the Salvation Army. But that wasn’t enough for the City Council which threatened to pass an ordinance prohibiting any White person from attending an African American theater. Wometco buckled cancelling the March 21st show and then offering the show exclusively to African American patrons on the 22d. Mayor E.G. Sewell was pleased with Wometco’s decision saying that “you are bound to have trouble” in such a performance.
The City then proposed an ordinance prohibiting performances by African American displaying any part of their bodies other than face, neck hands or arms before White audiences and by White performers using the same language in the presence of African American audiences. That ordinance was not enacted. But the City would get the last word in plowing a highway project right down the center of the neighborhood where the Harlem / Capitol was a focal point thus dissecting the formerly-vibrant African American neighborhood out of existence.
Over 2,000 patrons showed up for the evening show and so did Miami police who said they would arrest all of the African American cast if they presented the show with any White patrons in the audience. Wometco was outraged by the late notice cancellation and said that the Lyric Theatre had a similar show without incident in 1932 (that ad is posted under the Lyric’s Cinema Treasure page).
The Bunche Park neighborhood was a post-War community designed for African American homeowners. The Bunche Park Shopping Center was announced in June of 1950 to be anchored by a movie theater and a Harlees five and dime store. Wometco’s Bunche Theatre opened in the plaza May 18, 1951 with Betty Grable in “My Blue Heaven” following a lengthy opening ceremony headlined by Mt. Zion Baptist Church’s Reverend Edward T. Graham and music by the Dorsey High School band. All proceeds from that showing was donated to playground equipment for Bunche Park.
Beatrice Eve Clark - a cashier since 1935 for Wometco - was the opening day cashier at the Bunche. She gravitated to Assistance Manager in 1952 and became its manager. Clark oversaw the transition to widescreen projection in 1955 allowing the Bunche Theatre to play CinemaScope titles. The theater stopped advertising likely closing in September of 1959 due to very low patronage. The theater was replaced by a bowling alley. If reports are correct, the entire complex was torn down in 1966. Though disappointing, demolished would be an appropriate current status.
The Northside Shopping Center mall had launched theatre-lessly on March 16, 1960. It added the Northside Theater launching on January 31, 1968 during the suburban luxury theater period in cinema exhibition that saw single-screen theaters often built in strip shopping centers and malls. Soon thereafter, this period gave way to the twin screen, triplexes and quads era providing more options to moviegoers. The Northside was twinned accordingly on October 14, 1970 becoming the Northside Twins. Likely under new operators, the “s” was dropped in the mid-1970s operating as the Northside Twin Theatres 1 & 2. It successfully carried Blaxploitation bookings during the 1970s in its halcyon days. That genre lost favor in the film industry which concentrated on blockbuster “popcorn” films. The venue struggled trying to reclaim its audience.
The Northside would finish its run under a final operator programming double-features of Hollywood mainstream titles beginning in late Fall of 1981 to its closure. The Northside Twin Theatres 1 & 2 closed September 9, 1984 with “The Executioner” with “Streets of Fire” on Screen One and “"Gremlins” with “Creepshow” on Screen Two. In December the space was retrofitted for a discotheque.
The Palace Theatre closed at the end of lease on April 6, 1967 with Tempest Storm in “Mundo Depravados” and Karen Drake in “The House of Cats” and a live burley show starring Miss Naja and here $100,000 wardrobe along with six comics and five exotics. The Palace’s Saints and Sinners Grand Finale had been staged on February 28, 1967 but that was followed by an encore month of shows thereafter. Legendary operator Dewey Michaels found a new place to move the operation to for the next ten years while the original Palace was demolished soon thereafter to make way for the Church Street Extension project that was previously known as the Elm-Oak Arterial Highway.
Note: In case anyone was curious, The Monkees never played the Palace Theatre in Buffalo and had no concert dates prior to the launch of their series in September of 1966 (their first concert was in December of 1966).
The Lindsey Building was the second home of the New Bonifay Theatre, relaunching there on February 21, 1936. But the Bonifay’s second location would be its shortest of three locations burning down on December 17, 1942. Operator Al Saunders vowed to rebuild despite War-time material shortages. He would deliver a new Bonifay which has its own CinemaTreasure page.
The venue opened as the Skydome Theater, an open-air destination for African American fans of films, live entertainment and boxing in 1925. Wometco took on the venue making it a hardtop called the Harlem Theatre likely in 1933. Wometco closed the Capitol Theatre in downtown and moved the marquee to the Harlem which was renamed the Capitol for its September 6, 1953 relaunch.
The Lindsey Building is the home of the New Bonifay Theatre, the second and newest home in 1936. Spoiler alert: it will burn down less than ten years later and get replaced by a third Bonifay Theatre.
Bonus ad: It’s the Royal Palm Theatre on Cranford Avenue in Fort Meyers - an African American theater in 1926.
The Ernada Theatre was opened ny Hugh Wear on February 1, 1924 with Mary Philbin in “The Merry-Go-Round.” Louise Gautier was the opening keyboardist. The architect was W.B. Talley and built by W.C. Robertson & Co. At its launch, Marquis Amusement Circuit operated the 736-seat venue.
Operator Vance Marquis proved himself a masterful political tactician when he was requested to equip the theater for sound i 1929. He said without Sunday screenings prevented by local blue laws, he couldn’t afford to do so. The town put that on the ballot and it passed. on April 14, 1929, the Ernada’s new Photophone sound system of North Vernon, Indiana playing, “The Broadway Melody” as its first talkie. The theater refreshed reducing seat count to 663.
New manager Leonard Bennett took on the house with a major streamlined moderne makeover in September of 1936 including a much improved Western Electric sound system. Now seating 600, the venue was rechristened as the Ritz Theater. Florida State Theatres operated the venue in the 1940s, 50s, and 60s. But ads are discontinued in December of 1965 which may - or may not - be indicative of its closure.
The July 2, 1916 Grand Opening ad for the New Frolic Theatre is posted as the venue booked Eleanor Woodruff in “Britton of the Seventh” supported by a Charlie Chaplin short. All 1,000 seats were filled for the opener. The previous home of the Frolic was just three doors down at the Knights of Phythias Hall for three years. Its success with African American patrons spawned the construction of the new house.
This photo is at the State Theatre on February 23, 1952. Autry was in town performing with his horse, Champion, at the Orange Bowl and stopped by the venue.
This photo is at the State Theatre on February 23, 1952. Autry was in town performing with his horse, Champion, at the Orange Bowl and stopped by the venue.
You are correct. The closure and story about the theater’s impending demise were printed but there was an eleventh hour appeal made of the demolition’s starting point when there weren’t enough homes provided for displaced elderly residents. The theatre did reopen before Big Chief Demolition came back in and wiped out “Good Bread Alley” finally taking the Capitol Theatre and everything around it early in 1975.
Locals called the urban renewal plan simply a means by which the local government would allow the displacement and destruction of African American neighbors and neighborhoods. Final showtimes for the Capitol are corrected as occurring January 28, 1975 with a double feature of “Savage Streets” and “Street Gangs of Hong Kong.”
Closed in October of 2022
Closed permanently on October 9, 2022, the theater’s contents were auctioned off on November 20, 2022.
The venue ceased operations at the expiry of a 30-year leasing period on February 8, 1984.
Regal Phillips Place closed March 16, 2020 along with the rest of Regal’s locations for the COVID-19 pandemic. It opened for a week in October of 2020 only to close again with the rest of the Cineworld/Regal locations. It reopened one more time on May 14, 2021. But “Halloween Ends” - the final installment of the horror series - also ended Regal’s run here on October 16, 2022 with the chain trying to re-emerge from bankruptcy declared the previous month.
SBC Management Corporation of Boston built a new cinema twin in Burlington Plaza Shopping Center in 1970. The plaza contained a Mammoth Mart and Martin’s Foods as anchors opening the new Center in 1969. The twin screen Cinema 1-2 was opened on May 22, 1970 with 35mm & 70mm capability. It was operated by SBC Corp. The opening movies were “MASH” & “Goodbye Mr. Chips”. The theatre had around 700 seats with pushback chairs and featured an art gallery that would feature local artists. About a year later, Carrol’s Development Corporation launched the Carrol’s Cinema Plaza 1 & 2 on July 28, 1971 across from the Zayre Shopping Center that would become the University Mall by decade’s end. It has its own Cinema Treasure page.
“Star Wars” was a huge hit for the Burlington Plaza Cinema opening on July 13, 1977. SBC added a third screen in late May of 1981 becoming a triplex as twin-screeners were not cutting it as the multiplex era was opening. It became the Cinema 1•2•3. Merrill Theatres, which had taken on the twin-screen Century Plaza followed that up by twinning its largest screen in June 1981 also becoming a triplex.
Hoyts Circuit took on the venue in 1987 continuing as the Cinema 1•2•3. But Hoyts closed at the end of lease on September 4, 1989 with “Batman,” Lethal Weapon 2" and “Eddie and the Cruisers 2.” Neighboring Martin’s grocery store took on the space in an expansion. Hoyts would make a major move acquiring the Merrill Theatres and taking over - among other venues - the competing Century Plaza triplex - in 1994 though closing it in 1995.
Closed on December 13, 1973 with a double-feature of “The Black Six” with Mike Angel and Rod Dana in “Kill or Be Killed.” The wrecking ball struck days later.
Merrill’s Showcase 5 closed at the end of a 30-year leasing cycle on July 31, 2004 with “The Notebook,” “I, Robot,” “Anchorman,” “The Terminal,” “Fahrenheit 9/11,” and “Catwoman.”
Carrol’s Development Corporation launched the Carrol’s Cinema Plaza 1 & 2 on July 28, 1971. It was constructed in the era of twins, triplexes and quads in cinema exhibition history. This period featured theaters that were often built with comfortable seating and automated projection equipment. These venues were often found near or in shopping centers and malls and Carroll’s Cinema Plaza 1 & 2 was no exception. The Cinema was on Dorset Street (one “t” in the street name) across from a shopping center with a large Zayre’s store, a Wilson’s Home Center and a Shop ‘n’ Save. A year earlier, SBC had opened a competing twin-screen less than three miles away which has its own Cinema Treasure page.
Carrol’s opening films on July 28, 1971 were Ben the Rat in “Willard” and Sean Connery in “The Anderson Tapes” The new-build venue featured rocking chair seats and a 1970’s friendly color scheme. Carroll’s left the cinema building in late December of 1973 and the theatre was renamed as the Plaza I & II. With the Burlington Plaza 1 & 2 still operating less than three miles away, there may have been a trace of confusion. But about one year later, Merrill Jarvis of Merrill’s Theater Circuit took over the Plaza I & II renaming it as the Century Plaza 1 & 2 in December of 1974 for more distinction in the naming.
Across the street, the University Mall was breaking ground expanding the Zayre complex on March 16, 1977 reshaping the retail landscape. The Mall launched in 1979. SBC’s competing Cinema 1 & 2 on Shelburg added a third screen in late May of 1981 becoming a triplex as twin-screeners were not cutting it as the multiplex era was opening. So Merrill closed its twin-screen Century Plaza in June briefly with the venue also re-emerging as a triplex, now the Century Plaza 3 on June 21, 1981 in time to play a big summer film in “Superman.” As a triplex, Screen 1 had 303 seats, Screen 2 had 200 seats and Screen 3 had 100 seats for a total of 603 total seats.
In February of 1994, Hoyts Theatre Circuit bought Merrill Theater Circuit including the Century Plaza. It was called Hoyt’s Century Plaza 3 with Hoyt positioning the venue as an art house. But the property was too hot for the aging triplex and Hoyt’s closed on October 12, 1995 with Patrick Stewart in “Jeffrey,” Kevin Spacey in “The Usual Suspects,” and Edward Burns in “The Brothers McMullen.” Demolition was soon commenced as a Barnes and Noble Book Sellers store was built there. It was still in operation in the 2020s.
This is the Cinema 1•2•3 on Shelburne Road.
On September 6, 1953, the Harlem Theatre became the streamline moderne Capitol Theatre for Wometco Theatres with Tony Curtis in “Houdini.” It was likely at the renewal of the theater’s 20-year lease which would place its possible opening by Wometco in 1933.
In a moment highlighting the Miami police’s decade’s long hostile track record on race relations, the police shuttered the Harlem Theater’s March 17, 1934 just prior to an integrated audience show exclusively with African American performers. Over 2,000 patrons showed up for that evening’s show and so did Miami police who said they would arrest all of the African American cast members if they presented the show with any White patrons in the audience. Wometco was outraged by the late notice cancellation and said that the Lyric Theatre had a similar show without incident in 1932 (that ad is posted under the Lyric’s Cinema Treasure page). But the circuit couldn’t find a judge to intervene at the 11th hour and the show was cancelled with refunds given.
The show was then rescheduled on March 21 and 22, 1934 with Wometco both gaining an injunction and vowing to donate proceeds to the Salvation Army. But that wasn’t enough for the City Council which threatened to pass an ordinance prohibiting any White person from attending an African American theater. Wometco buckled cancelling the March 21st show and then offering the show exclusively to African American patrons on the 22d. Mayor E.G. Sewell was pleased with Wometco’s decision saying that “you are bound to have trouble” in such a performance.
The City then proposed an ordinance prohibiting performances by African American displaying any part of their bodies other than face, neck hands or arms before White audiences and by White performers using the same language in the presence of African American audiences. That ordinance was not enacted. But the City would get the last word in plowing a highway project right down the center of the neighborhood where the Harlem / Capitol was a focal point thus dissecting the formerly-vibrant African American neighborhood out of existence.
Over 2,000 patrons showed up for the evening show and so did Miami police who said they would arrest all of the African American cast if they presented the show with any White patrons in the audience. Wometco was outraged by the late notice cancellation and said that the Lyric Theatre had a similar show without incident in 1932 (that ad is posted under the Lyric’s Cinema Treasure page).
The Bunche Park neighborhood was a post-War community designed for African American homeowners. The Bunche Park Shopping Center was announced in June of 1950 to be anchored by a movie theater and a Harlees five and dime store. Wometco’s Bunche Theatre opened in the plaza May 18, 1951 with Betty Grable in “My Blue Heaven” following a lengthy opening ceremony headlined by Mt. Zion Baptist Church’s Reverend Edward T. Graham and music by the Dorsey High School band. All proceeds from that showing was donated to playground equipment for Bunche Park.
Beatrice Eve Clark - a cashier since 1935 for Wometco - was the opening day cashier at the Bunche. She gravitated to Assistance Manager in 1952 and became its manager. Clark oversaw the transition to widescreen projection in 1955 allowing the Bunche Theatre to play CinemaScope titles. The theater stopped advertising likely closing in September of 1959 due to very low patronage. The theater was replaced by a bowling alley. If reports are correct, the entire complex was torn down in 1966. Though disappointing, demolished would be an appropriate current status.
The Northside Shopping Center mall had launched theatre-lessly on March 16, 1960. It added the Northside Theater launching on January 31, 1968 during the suburban luxury theater period in cinema exhibition that saw single-screen theaters often built in strip shopping centers and malls. Soon thereafter, this period gave way to the twin screen, triplexes and quads era providing more options to moviegoers. The Northside was twinned accordingly on October 14, 1970 becoming the Northside Twins. Likely under new operators, the “s” was dropped in the mid-1970s operating as the Northside Twin Theatres 1 & 2. It successfully carried Blaxploitation bookings during the 1970s in its halcyon days. That genre lost favor in the film industry which concentrated on blockbuster “popcorn” films. The venue struggled trying to reclaim its audience.
The Northside would finish its run under a final operator programming double-features of Hollywood mainstream titles beginning in late Fall of 1981 to its closure. The Northside Twin Theatres 1 & 2 closed September 9, 1984 with “The Executioner” with “Streets of Fire” on Screen One and “"Gremlins” with “Creepshow” on Screen Two. In December the space was retrofitted for a discotheque.
Demolished 1967
The Palace Theatre closed at the end of lease on April 6, 1967 with Tempest Storm in “Mundo Depravados” and Karen Drake in “The House of Cats” and a live burley show starring Miss Naja and here $100,000 wardrobe along with six comics and five exotics. The Palace’s Saints and Sinners Grand Finale had been staged on February 28, 1967 but that was followed by an encore month of shows thereafter. Legendary operator Dewey Michaels found a new place to move the operation to for the next ten years while the original Palace was demolished soon thereafter to make way for the Church Street Extension project that was previously known as the Elm-Oak Arterial Highway.
Note: In case anyone was curious, The Monkees never played the Palace Theatre in Buffalo and had no concert dates prior to the launch of their series in September of 1966 (their first concert was in December of 1966).