During my college years (1969-73) I worked part time downtown in the summers. I used to stop here nearly every day after work to catch an older film I’d missed.
In its last years, they showed stage plays and movies, sometimes in alternating runs! I saw the road company of Man of La Mancha here in between movies.
With all the Jerry Lewis pics I sat through, how’d I miss THAT double bill!
Its design was odd, in that you entered the auditorium from the left side rather than the rear … i.e., the screen was perpendicular to the main road rather than parallel.
I think that address is right … on 55th, between California and Fairfield. Our house was at 56th and Fairfield, and I couyld go here without so much as crossing a street!
I’m sure it was still open in 1958. Closed maybe in ‘59 or '60. Marquee read “GONE FISHING / WHY DON’T YOU?” for months or years, as if the owners were on vacation, but they must have drowned or sumpin’, as it never reopened.
Seen in exterior shots in the film Matinee.
During my college years (1969-73) I worked part time downtown in the summers. I used to stop here nearly every day after work to catch an older film I’d missed.
They had a good-sized screening room upstairs. I saw an advance of The Poseidon Adventure with a group of invited college newspaper editors.
In its last years, they showed stage plays and movies, sometimes in alternating runs! I saw the road company of Man of La Mancha here in between movies.
With all the Jerry Lewis pics I sat through, how’d I miss THAT double bill!
Its design was odd, in that you entered the auditorium from the left side rather than the rear … i.e., the screen was perpendicular to the main road rather than parallel.
I think that address is right … on 55th, between California and Fairfield. Our house was at 56th and Fairfield, and I couyld go here without so much as crossing a street!
I’m sure it was still open in 1958. Closed maybe in ‘59 or '60. Marquee read “GONE FISHING / WHY DON’T YOU?” for months or years, as if the owners were on vacation, but they must have drowned or sumpin’, as it never reopened.