I remember seeing the Eurythmics, Duran Duran, Haircut 100, Simply Red, Dave Edmunds, and Grace Jones whom I got to dance with when I was in the audience. I’m probably leaving someone out too. The best time in the late ‘70s.
Correction: I wasn’t at the Parkway in the late ‘80s. I think it was closed or remodeled for an eyewear store. It was the early '80s that featured a new double feature daily usually with a theme or genre.
The Parkway was a great place to show old movies – revivals or foreign films – in the late ‘80s. I recall Diva (a French film) and Hepburn/Grant’s Bringing Up Baby. And I got to see all of Marilyn Monroe’s films there.
In the late ‘70s I saw the cult film Rock-n-Roll High School starring the Ramones. As a kid growing up on the westside it was my first time in Rogers Park.
In 1964 I lived on Austin Blvd off Division with my parents, two sisters, and a brother. At five years of age my Mom took me around the corner to see my first movie (Von Ryan’s Express) and it also the first time I recall going somewhere at night. I was fascinated by the flashing marquee towering over Division since I had never been on Division after the sun had set. Later that year we moved to our first home on Laramie Avenue off Washington and several years later to Race Street off Austin/Mayfield. In the summer of 1970 after returning from my first European vacation, my mother informed me that the Rockne was now showing porn — the end of an era but not my very early childhood memory.
I remember seeing the Eurythmics, Duran Duran, Haircut 100, Simply Red, Dave Edmunds, and Grace Jones whom I got to dance with when I was in the audience. I’m probably leaving someone out too. The best time in the late ‘70s.
Correction: I wasn’t at the Parkway in the late ‘80s. I think it was closed or remodeled for an eyewear store. It was the early '80s that featured a new double feature daily usually with a theme or genre.
The last film I saw at the Patio was The Poseidon Adventure. I took the bus from Lake Street on Austin Blvd.
The Parkway was a great place to show old movies – revivals or foreign films – in the late ‘80s. I recall Diva (a French film) and Hepburn/Grant’s Bringing Up Baby. And I got to see all of Marilyn Monroe’s films there.
In the late ‘70s I saw the cult film Rock-n-Roll High School starring the Ramones. As a kid growing up on the westside it was my first time in Rogers Park.
I would take the bus from Lake Street to see some of the best Disney / G-rated films (Streisand’s What’s Up Doc?) when I was a kid.
I recall seeing a cheesy King Kong movie at the Austin in 1967 or 1968.
In 1964 I lived on Austin Blvd off Division with my parents, two sisters, and a brother. At five years of age my Mom took me around the corner to see my first movie (Von Ryan’s Express) and it also the first time I recall going somewhere at night. I was fascinated by the flashing marquee towering over Division since I had never been on Division after the sun had set. Later that year we moved to our first home on Laramie Avenue off Washington and several years later to Race Street off Austin/Mayfield. In the summer of 1970 after returning from my first European vacation, my mother informed me that the Rockne was now showing porn — the end of an era but not my very early childhood memory.