Additional history courtesy The Route 66 Association of Missouri Facebook page.
“When I-44 was constructed, the route through Waynesville was designated as City 66. The 1,234-seat Fort Wood Theatre opened on April 17, 1941. The owner said the theatre “Compares with the largest in Springfield and Jefferson City.” The theatre closed in 1980. It was damaged by a flood and torn down.”
The winter photo could very well be early `69 as you say.
The very first photo on the Loew’s State page shows “Oliver!” sharing the bill with “Chitty Chitty Bang Bang”, the latter which was released 12/18/68 in the U.S.
Surely with the success of both films, they would have ran well past Christmas into the following year.
Link to that photo below.
Here is the Shorpy link for the September 1940 photo, which is originally “Theater in Ouray, Colorado”.
Medium format negative by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration.
Be sure to click on “View full size"for incredible detail.
Biograph lobby mural now on display at AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Center in Silver Spring Maryland.
Photo added credit Allyn Johnson courtesy the Old Time D.C. Facebook page.
“A huge crowd accompanied the opening of the Plaza Theater on September 12, 1930. Designed as a modern film house with the flexibility of presenting stage shows, the Plaza eventually hosted popular traveling shows and movies. Its size (capacity of 2,410), elaborate decor, and technical innovations made it stand out: While the exterior facade was designed to be reminiscent of a Spanish mission-style parapet, patrons were awed by the interior, with its intricately painted ceilings, mosaic-tiled floors, decorative metal railings and sconces and antique furnishings (Spanish Colonial Revival style). Additionally, the Plaza offered electrically cooled drinking fountains, a nursery, a $850 marble and brass telecheck system that alert ushers when a seat became vacant, and a Brenograph machine that could throw over a thousand color effects onto the black-and-white scenes. However, in the 1950s, the Theater’s patronage declined and by the 1970s it was sold. In the 1980s, the El Paso Community Foundation saved the Plaza from demolition and donated it to the City of El Paso in 1990. After, it was restored to its original splendor and today hosts concerts, shows, musicals and plays once again. ”
The address listed is the Wright Opera House built in 1888, not the Ouray Theatre.
In doing a street view based off the 1955 photo I posted, I believe the Ouray Theatre was at 640 Main Street, which today houses Gumpshun Gallery.
If you do a search of that address, it appears to be the same building with a heavily updated facade.
You can also match up the other buildings from the 1955 photo if you scroll right from there.
There was apparently an earlier incarnation of the Avenue Theatre, originally opened as Rose Theatre circa 1913 at 9420 118th Avenue.
https://lostyeg.wordpress.com/2014/10/06/rose-theatre/
1958 photo as Sahara added courtesy Dalton Grant.
2/17/88 photo credit Neil Libin. His father owned the furniture store to the right of the Roxy.
Photo documented as being the original Dreamland Theatre in Edmonton added.
Likely demolished for the later brick one.
Additional history.
http://www.vintageedmonton.com/2019/09/vintage-edmonton-dreamland-theatre.html?fbclid=IwAR3m-jw3GgdqFmvw6Za1B2A_nVJM3Xxv_88EReHxkIjoi84f8ojSGSEKMkY
Undated marquee photo added courtesy Roy Shermack.
After 1988 it became New City night club. Photo as that added courtesy Carl Tripp.
October 1941 photo added credit John Collier.
Cornerstone Coffeehouse is the current tenant.
Building currently houses Chelle’s Family Pet Center.
Photo added credit Cindy Taylor Burger.
Lyric Theater, 1955, Huntsville, Al. During Huntsville’s Sesquicentennial.
1934 photo added credit Dick Whittington.
Additional history courtesy The Route 66 Association of Missouri Facebook page.
“When I-44 was constructed, the route through Waynesville was designated as City 66. The 1,234-seat Fort Wood Theatre opened on April 17, 1941. The owner said the theatre “Compares with the largest in Springfield and Jefferson City.” The theatre closed in 1980. It was damaged by a flood and torn down.”
Building houses Gallery 1988 today.
The winter photo could very well be early `69 as you say. The very first photo on the Loew’s State page shows “Oliver!” sharing the bill with “Chitty Chitty Bang Bang”, the latter which was released 12/18/68 in the U.S. Surely with the success of both films, they would have ran well past Christmas into the following year. Link to that photo below.
http://cinematreasures.org/theaters/557/photos/1011
Update, of sorts…
https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/detroit-city/2019/10/28/hud-demolition-not-required-united-artists-theater/2484604001/?fbclid=IwAR05KCY1i86EmSzUAnGDz839VSdV4vQRL3Ky3Ri-s7Egom1YydagI_vcWNI
Undated image added courtesy Ron Evry.
Advertised as Burbank Burlesque Theatre.
Above 1930s photo added to Photos, via Martin King. Theatre was spelled with “re”. 2009 Photobucket link above no longer opens.
Here is the Shorpy link for the September 1940 photo, which is originally “Theater in Ouray, Colorado”. Medium format negative by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration. Be sure to click on “View full size"for incredible detail.
https://www.shorpy.com/node/23759
Washington Post article about the mural.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/
A 1986 video of the “Saving The Circle” effort.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSol766bDvI&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR3FHKLmxO6-5LFexf9Lwb3KJNJ8_3wRnPv7bww1uthcXIJh_GEbDF7ND_s
Biograph lobby mural now on display at AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Center in Silver Spring Maryland. Photo added credit Allyn Johnson courtesy the Old Time D.C. Facebook page.
Via Lost El Paso Facebook page.
“A huge crowd accompanied the opening of the Plaza Theater on September 12, 1930. Designed as a modern film house with the flexibility of presenting stage shows, the Plaza eventually hosted popular traveling shows and movies. Its size (capacity of 2,410), elaborate decor, and technical innovations made it stand out: While the exterior facade was designed to be reminiscent of a Spanish mission-style parapet, patrons were awed by the interior, with its intricately painted ceilings, mosaic-tiled floors, decorative metal railings and sconces and antique furnishings (Spanish Colonial Revival style). Additionally, the Plaza offered electrically cooled drinking fountains, a nursery, a $850 marble and brass telecheck system that alert ushers when a seat became vacant, and a Brenograph machine that could throw over a thousand color effects onto the black-and-white scenes. However, in the 1950s, the Theater’s patronage declined and by the 1970s it was sold. In the 1980s, the El Paso Community Foundation saved the Plaza from demolition and donated it to the City of El Paso in 1990. After, it was restored to its original splendor and today hosts concerts, shows, musicals and plays once again. ”
The address listed is the Wright Opera House built in 1888, not the Ouray Theatre. In doing a street view based off the 1955 photo I posted, I believe the Ouray Theatre was at 640 Main Street, which today houses Gumpshun Gallery. If you do a search of that address, it appears to be the same building with a heavily updated facade. You can also match up the other buildings from the 1955 photo if you scroll right from there.
Circa 1955 photo added as Ouray Theatre, painted on wall left of center. Courtesy Mase Mason.