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  • <p>April 1966.</p>
            
              <p>Is anyone “Rumbly in your Tumbly?”</p>
  • <p>December 26, 1945</p>
  • <p>December 26, 1946</p>
  • <p>February 8, 1953</p>
  • <p>Picture courtesy of Tiger Drive-In Facebook page.</p>
  • <p>Gone With The Wind at the Parthenon 11-12-1970, courtesy of Dawn Irby Kovacich</p>
  • <p>Georgia premiere engagement opened March 11th, 1938</p>
  • <p>This deserves a widescreen Blu-ray release.  The DVD is from a VHS pan and scan.  It’s the last Disney film with Walt Disney’s personal imprint on it.  He died during the filming.  Surprisingly, it holds up well as a musical and Leslie Ann Warren is magic in it.</p>
  • <p>1943 street stunt as war bond buyers help create “Hitler’s Tomb” in front of the Loew’s Vendome Theatre in Nashville.</p>
  • <p>Oh no they didn’t! For 1939’s “Confession of a Nazi Spy,” Roxy manager E.R. Medd created a striking wrapper front for his theater but punctuated it with a Adolf Hitler impersonator and that’s E.R. Mend, himself, in uniform at the far right. Daring to say the least.</p>
  • <p>A crowd stretches around the corner for the release of “Star Wars, Episode 1” in 1999.</p>
  • <p>The IOKA had a long running tradition of showing the Wizard of Oz every year.</p>
  • <p>Dual Engagement Opened November 10th, 1953</p>
  • <p>December 21, 1946 75TH Anniversary</p>
            
              <p><A HREF = “https://www.proquest.com/hnpnewyorktimes/docview/107437387/fulltextPDF/5CF8F746COpening Day Ad</A></p>
  • <p>July 13, 1951</p>
  • <p>Showing Hitchcock’s The Birds</p>
  • <p>Frame from the 1986 movie, ….ABOUT LAST NIGHT;  filmed in Chicago in late, 1985.  The two little upstairs auditoriums were known as the Roxy and the Ritz; however, those names lasted for about a year or so after the two upstairs cinemas were opened in 1983.  Plitt Theatres took over the Biograph in 1984 and eventually dropped the Roxy/Ritz names and just called the two  little auditoriums #2 and #3 and, of course, the original main auditorium was known as Theatre #1.  For whatever reason, Plitt left the Roxy/Ritz marquee up until Cineplex Odeon took over in 1985 and eventually got rid of the neon sign.</p>
  • <p>Majestic Theatre 29 Dee Street, Invercargill NZ - Demolished 1985</p>
            
              <p>Photo - Old Invercargill web-site</p>
            
              <p>The Albion Picture Theatre was re-named Majestic Theatre in 1928. By 1950 it was operated by the Kerridge-Odeon chain. By 1968 it was operated by the Fullers Theatres chain. It was possibly closed in the early-1980’s and was demolished in 1985.</p>
            
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  • <p>This was taken in 1990.</p>
  • <p>Yes, that, as of April 2013, is still in the IOKA projection booth.</p>