If this is the Capitol Theatre on 79th and Halsted, I used to go there as a kid during the early 60’s. My father, who worked for White Way, changed the marquees, therefore I received free tickets. The theatre was boarded up and in poor shape, but I do believe it stood thru the some of the 80’s, and I have a photo I took of it’s boarded up shape. At one time, in the 70’s, they tried to bring back live entertainment, I do believe seeing and ad to where James Brown played there. Blaban and Katz used to own the theatre. It was quite a thrill in the early 60’s to sit thru hours of Sat afternoon cartoon festivals. Also, when House on Haunted Hill played there, they brought a skeleton down from the balcony, and one Sat kids matinee they had horror film actors arrive (some who were not the real people..like Lugosi, as he was dead, but we kids did not know this).
If this is the Capitol Theatre on 79th and Halsted, I used to go there as a kid during the early 60’s. My father, who worked for White Way, changed the marquees, therefore I received free tickets. The theatre was boarded up and in poor shape, but I do believe it stood thru the some of the 80’s, and I have a photo I took of it’s boarded up shape. At one time, in the 70’s, they tried to bring back live entertainment, I do believe seeing and ad to where James Brown played there. Blaban and Katz used to own the theatre. It was quite a thrill in the early 60’s to sit thru hours of Sat afternoon cartoon festivals. Also, when House on Haunted Hill played there, they brought a skeleton down from the balcony, and one Sat kids matinee they had horror film actors arrive (some who were not the real people..like Lugosi, as he was dead, but we kids did not know this).