I did my undergrad at Fredonia, and we lived in Porter Manor; a decent walk for a five year old boy and his father to walk up and see Star Wars on a Friday evening. My son is a writier in Hollywood now, but he still remembers that star cruise streaking overhead in the opening shots!
If my friends and I followed the streets over to the Bailey on a Saturday afternoon, it was a twenty minute walk. If we walked on the railroad tracks it was less than ten minutes.
Needless to say our parents did not approve of this timesaver, and when our dangerous shortcut was discovered, we were all grounded for a month!
Could have been, I only knew that particular theatre as the Circle Art. The Varsity was a standalone building, possibly on Grider? If it was a theatre again, it was after it was a plumbing store.
I know this is a year later than these posts, but here goes…
The Circle Art Theatre at 3170 Bailey Ave was run by a gentleman named Fred Keller. He bought/leased a theatre on Bailey about two doors from the corner of Berkshire and Bailey, and called it the Circle Art. This theatre was not the Varsity, that theatre was somewhere else in the same area. The last I saw, it had been turned into a plumbing supply house. If you turn on “street view” in Google, you can see that the building is still a theatre now called The Uptown Theatre. I will post more on Fred later. He was quite the guy!
I did my undergrad at Fredonia, and we lived in Porter Manor; a decent walk for a five year old boy and his father to walk up and see Star Wars on a Friday evening. My son is a writier in Hollywood now, but he still remembers that star cruise streaking overhead in the opening shots!
If my friends and I followed the streets over to the Bailey on a Saturday afternoon, it was a twenty minute walk. If we walked on the railroad tracks it was less than ten minutes.
Needless to say our parents did not approve of this timesaver, and when our dangerous shortcut was discovered, we were all grounded for a month!
Phone number in 1955: HU-5997
It’s closed again. The streetside billboard is gone, and it is no longer listed on the Chakeres web site.
Could have been, I only knew that particular theatre as the Circle Art. The Varsity was a standalone building, possibly on Grider? If it was a theatre again, it was after it was a plumbing store.
I know this is a year later than these posts, but here goes…
The Circle Art Theatre at 3170 Bailey Ave was run by a gentleman named Fred Keller. He bought/leased a theatre on Bailey about two doors from the corner of Berkshire and Bailey, and called it the Circle Art. This theatre was not the Varsity, that theatre was somewhere else in the same area. The last I saw, it had been turned into a plumbing supply house. If you turn on “street view” in Google, you can see that the building is still a theatre now called The Uptown Theatre. I will post more on Fred later. He was quite the guy!