Unfortunately, the link won’t work now because the New Zealand National Library uses one of those systems that generates only temporary URLs that expire a few minutes later. You can see the picture if you enter “St. James Theatre” in the box under “Cross-Collection Search” here: http://www.natlib.govt.nz/about-us/search-home The results will bring up a a thumbnail; clicking on will expand it.
It is the United Artists Long Beach Theater /theaters/2032/, a lovely art deco theater that was torn down probably in the early 1980s. There’s a picture here: View link
Like Tinseltoes, I bet would bet it is in one of those oh-so-trendy “lifestyle centers” that is meant to evoke the image of a classic town retail center, by putting the stores into simulated city blocks with little parks and gazebos and bandstands instead in a retail row. I mean, who wants their theater in a mall, strip mall, or in a “shopping center” anymore? This trend may have begun when the Streets of Woodfield opened in suburban Chicago some years ago.
Years ago, when this purchasing of naming rights trend started, it did not bother me much; after all, theater restoration is expensive and there is an argument to be made that it is a better route to go than relying substantially on government money. It did not seem to me unreasonable that the big corporate sponsor should have the company name on the theater rather than simply on a plaque somewhere in the lobby. But at least most of the names were rather classy; I mean at least the Ford Center for the Performing Arts, the Cadillac Palace, the Hilton Theatre (we won’t talk about the Wang Center) and others seemed natural and unobtrusive. In fact there could and may have been theaters with those names before corporate sponsorship without a connection to a company. Then there seemed to be a shift. The American Airlines Theatre sounded to me like something that ought to be in a science museum. Then came the the theaters named for big banks, which began to sound dumb, awkward and clumsy, like the Bank of America Theater. Now this? What if Waste Management or Roto-Rooter wants a part of the action?
Ah, Don – I think you have your links mixed up somehow; the link you posted in the comment of of August 4, 2010 points to a postcard of the Grand theater in Grand Island, NB in the 1930s, and the link in your comment of August 5, 2010, is not a link to the Crest website, but to a postcard showing the Crest in the 1940s. The Crest’s website is listed correctly in the headnote, above.
Cecil Whitmire, a former organist at this theater and the man credited with leading the efforts to get it restored, passed away recently; story here: View link
An article about the Clay’s closing; apparently The San Francisco Film Society is interested in keeping the Clay running, but the theater’s owner is not taking their proposal seriously: View link
This article casts doubt that the theater’s owner is taking the SFFS’s attempts to presrve the Clay as a functioning movie theater seriously: View link
After a brief closure, this theater has reopened as the UltraStar Anaheim Garden Walk; the new official website is: http://www.ultrastarmovies.com/ For the time being, the IMAX screen is not available nor the former 21+ seating, though the new management hopes to restore both eventually, according to this story: View link
I think that is going to be tough to find; there are a few NY locations listed here on CT whose descriptions indicate that they were or may have been nickelodeons, but most are listed as closed/demolished. One, for example, is the Park; its entry here on CT is /theaters/4101/
When you are on the West Coast, and if you are able to film in San Francisco, you might be interested in the Clay Theatre, which is shortly to close. It opened as nickleodeon in 1910; story here: http://cinematreasures.org/news/24424_0_1_10_M/
This theater was closed by AMC sometime after 2007. According to a recent blog item in the Detroit Free Press, it is going to reopen in November, 2010 after renovations and be operated by Emagine Entertainment.
Unfortunately, the link won’t work now because the New Zealand National Library uses one of those systems that generates only temporary URLs that expire a few minutes later. You can see the picture if you enter “St. James Theatre” in the box under “Cross-Collection Search” here: http://www.natlib.govt.nz/about-us/search-home The results will bring up a a thumbnail; clicking on will expand it.
The Friends pf the Alger is holding a fund-raiser: View link
Here is an article about the renovations: View link
No, that is the United Artists Long Beach Theatre. See my comment on the Fox West Coast page.
It is the United Artists Long Beach Theater /theaters/2032/, a lovely art deco theater that was torn down probably in the early 1980s. There’s a picture here: View link
It is not going to be run as a cinema; it will be for concerts and other events: View link
Like Tinseltoes, I bet would bet it is in one of those oh-so-trendy “lifestyle centers” that is meant to evoke the image of a classic town retail center, by putting the stores into simulated city blocks with little parks and gazebos and bandstands instead in a retail row. I mean, who wants their theater in a mall, strip mall, or in a “shopping center” anymore? This trend may have begun when the Streets of Woodfield opened in suburban Chicago some years ago.
Years ago, when this purchasing of naming rights trend started, it did not bother me much; after all, theater restoration is expensive and there is an argument to be made that it is a better route to go than relying substantially on government money. It did not seem to me unreasonable that the big corporate sponsor should have the company name on the theater rather than simply on a plaque somewhere in the lobby. But at least most of the names were rather classy; I mean at least the Ford Center for the Performing Arts, the Cadillac Palace, the Hilton Theatre (we won’t talk about the Wang Center) and others seemed natural and unobtrusive. In fact there could and may have been theaters with those names before corporate sponsorship without a connection to a company. Then there seemed to be a shift. The American Airlines Theatre sounded to me like something that ought to be in a science museum. Then came the the theaters named for big banks, which began to sound dumb, awkward and clumsy, like the Bank of America Theater. Now this? What if Waste Management or Roto-Rooter wants a part of the action?
It was listed as the Cinerom Winsted on the Cinerom website (which will probably be changed soon): http://www.cinerom.com/showtime_w.html
An article about the management and name change: View link
I am sorry to have misunderstood your August 5 comment.
Ah, Don – I think you have your links mixed up somehow; the link you posted in the comment of of August 4, 2010 points to a postcard of the Grand theater in Grand Island, NB in the 1930s, and the link in your comment of August 5, 2010, is not a link to the Crest website, but to a postcard showing the Crest in the 1940s. The Crest’s website is listed correctly in the headnote, above.
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This article states that the first tenant of this former theater’s space will be a church: View link
Cecil Whitmire, a former organist at this theater and the man credited with leading the efforts to get it restored, passed away recently; story here: View link
An article about the Clay’s closing; apparently The San Francisco Film Society is interested in keeping the Clay running, but the theater’s owner is not taking their proposal seriously: View link
This article casts doubt that the theater’s owner is taking the SFFS’s attempts to presrve the Clay as a functioning movie theater seriously: View link
With the opening of a new Cinemark in Broken Arrow recently, this theater is now a discount house: View link
The theater is now closed for the Fork & Screen conversion: View link
After a brief closure, this theater has reopened as the UltraStar Anaheim Garden Walk; the new official website is: http://www.ultrastarmovies.com/ For the time being, the IMAX screen is not available nor the former 21+ seating, though the new management hopes to restore both eventually, according to this story: View link
This theater is being leased to ComedySportz, an improvisational comedy troupe: View link
I think that is going to be tough to find; there are a few NY locations listed here on CT whose descriptions indicate that they were or may have been nickelodeons, but most are listed as closed/demolished. One, for example, is the Park; its entry here on CT is /theaters/4101/
When you are on the West Coast, and if you are able to film in San Francisco, you might be interested in the Clay Theatre, which is shortly to close. It opened as nickleodeon in 1910; story here: http://cinematreasures.org/news/24424_0_1_10_M/
This theater was closed by AMC sometime after 2007. According to a recent blog item in the Detroit Free Press, it is going to reopen in November, 2010 after renovations and be operated by Emagine Entertainment.
This article about the opening of this theater includes five pictures; click on the Images tab to see them: View link
It identifies the the architects as Trivers Associates and the builder as ICS Construction Services.
Status of this theater should be “Open”.
According to this article, the theater has installed a new, non-digital 3-D system: View link