The theater didn’t close in 1950. I grew up less than a block from it. The last title I can recall seeing there was The Beast From Hollow Mountain, which shows it was released in 1956. Given my vivid recollections of this movie and my age at the time, 8 yrs. old, I continued seeing movies there until I was at least 10 or 11 when they turned it into the skating rink. The theater and later skating rink was owned by the Fischer family. Both as a theater and later as a skating rink, the Fischer’s pretty much knew everyone in the neighborhood by name, though they didn’t live there.
The theater didn’t close in 1950. I grew up less than a block from it. The last title I can recall seeing there was The Beast From Hollow Mountain, which shows it was released in 1956. Given my vivid recollections of this movie and my age at the time, 8 yrs. old, I continued seeing movies there until I was at least 10 or 11 when they turned it into the skating rink. The theater and later skating rink was owned by the Fischer family. Both as a theater and later as a skating rink, the Fischer’s pretty much knew everyone in the neighborhood by name, though they didn’t live there.