I believe this theater – for better or worse – had a tremendous national impact on the U.S. motion picture industry: the owners of the Jackson Park filed, and won, an anti-monopoly lawsuit against the major studios, which resulted in the 1948 Supreme Court ruling that ultimately forced the studios to divest themselves of the exhibition aspect – and sell their theaters – by 1953
BTW – to KimEM – Citizens Bank didn’t “accidentally burn down” the Tivoli Theater. The Tivoli was bought by Citizens Bank – whose dignified old bank building was immediately next door to the Tivoli Building, at 505 Franklin – to be torn down for a new bank building, which is exactly happened, in November 1971. The new Citizens Bank that replaced these structures was about as ugly a postmodern 1970s building as imaginable, which more than vaguely resembled the old styrofoam containers that McDonald’s used to package their burgers in…
I believe this theater – for better or worse – had a tremendous national impact on the U.S. motion picture industry: the owners of the Jackson Park filed, and won, an anti-monopoly lawsuit against the major studios, which resulted in the 1948 Supreme Court ruling that ultimately forced the studios to divest themselves of the exhibition aspect – and sell their theaters – by 1953
BTW – to KimEM – Citizens Bank didn’t “accidentally burn down” the Tivoli Theater. The Tivoli was bought by Citizens Bank – whose dignified old bank building was immediately next door to the Tivoli Building, at 505 Franklin – to be torn down for a new bank building, which is exactly happened, in November 1971. The new Citizens Bank that replaced these structures was about as ugly a postmodern 1970s building as imaginable, which more than vaguely resembled the old styrofoam containers that McDonald’s used to package their burgers in…