I moved to Maywood when I was a little kid, c. 1964. We lived a stone’s throw away from the Lido at the time, at 4th and Washington, directly across 4th Ave. from Emerson School. I remember that Mary Poppins was playing at the Lido when we moved in, and it was the first film I saw there. Between then and 1974 when we moved out of Maywood, I spent countless Saturday afternoons at the Lido. Kids admission was 65 cents, and an ice cream sandwich was 15 cents, so I’d still have some change left over from my $1 allowance to walk down to Wallin’s 5 & 10 at 5th and Madison and load up on penny candy after the show! In all the time I spent there, I don’t recall the balcony ever being open, although I occasionally would sneak up there anyway. Memorable times: when Jane Fonda spoke at an anti-war rally at the Lido in the late ‘60s (I didn’t attend, but I remember the crowds), and also the biggest crowd I ever saw there, when the Batman film was shown there c. 1966 – there was a line of people waiting to get in that went around the corner down Walnut St. and down past the alley. Actually, I think they DID have the balcony open for that one :)
I moved to Maywood when I was a little kid, c. 1964. We lived a stone’s throw away from the Lido at the time, at 4th and Washington, directly across 4th Ave. from Emerson School. I remember that Mary Poppins was playing at the Lido when we moved in, and it was the first film I saw there. Between then and 1974 when we moved out of Maywood, I spent countless Saturday afternoons at the Lido. Kids admission was 65 cents, and an ice cream sandwich was 15 cents, so I’d still have some change left over from my $1 allowance to walk down to Wallin’s 5 & 10 at 5th and Madison and load up on penny candy after the show! In all the time I spent there, I don’t recall the balcony ever being open, although I occasionally would sneak up there anyway. Memorable times: when Jane Fonda spoke at an anti-war rally at the Lido in the late ‘60s (I didn’t attend, but I remember the crowds), and also the biggest crowd I ever saw there, when the Batman film was shown there c. 1966 – there was a line of people waiting to get in that went around the corner down Walnut St. and down past the alley. Actually, I think they DID have the balcony open for that one :)
The Lido was actually located one block south of Washington, on the NW corner of 5th Ave. and Walnut St.