There’s a story in my family about my uncle, Jay Clearwaters, working there as a teenager circa the early ‘50s. Even though he was a teenager, he became assistant manager. One night, shortly after he’d gone home, armed burglars got in. The manager and his wife were tied up and beaten with a cosh and the money taken. The wife had to be hospitalized. …… My uncle could get family members in for free. My mom remembers getting to see the original Howard Hawks version of The Thing there.
I’ve seen reference to a Broadway theater in Salt Lake way back in 1914. Maybe it was a different theater with the same name? It played one of the silent Oz films.
I see mention of the New Orpheum in Glasgow in the March 5, 1915 edition of The Glasgow Courier.There are announcements for Tillie’s Punctured Romance, William Tell, and The Patchwork Girl of Oz.
On October 1, 1915 the Airdome showed Country Circus, a movie produced by the Oz Film Manufacturing Company after the three silent Oz features failed to make a profit. L. Frank Baum, author of the Oz books, wrote the story and probably oversaw the production (as he had on the Oz movies).
As others here have observed,the Acme seems to go back earlier than 1916. I see an ad for it in the Goldsboro Weekly Argus dated September 30, 1915. An address isn’t given, though.
Was it always called the Music Hall? I’m trying to find info. about a theater in Portsmouth called the Scenic, which in 1915, showed mostly movies by Paramount.
A movie called The Country Circus played there on November 5, 1915 (having just played at the Princess, also in Quincy, on October 28). The Country Circus was written by L. Frank Baum (The Wizard of Oz).
I just came across an LA Times circa Oct. 24, 1953 mentioning the Maynard Theater (2488 W. Washington Blvd.). It was showing the epic Russian fantasy Sadko.Apparently Maynard was open a little later than 1951 or had closed and reopened briefly?
Was there a Denny’s (or Denny’s-like) restaurant across the street from that theater in the mid-‘70s? I’m trying to figure out if I saw a movie there in '76.
The last movie I saw there was on 9/11/01. After watching news coverage of the Twin Towers being destroyed all day, I needed to get out. I went to the Vine to see Spielberg and Kubrick’s A.I. I walked in to see New York destroyed in the movie, too. (Since I was early the previous showing was still going.)
Here are some of the movies I saw there, starting in June of ‘75 and ending spring '98. The Land That Time Forgot with The Neptune Factor, Journey Back to Oz (rerelease), King Kong (1976 remake),The Spy Who Loved Me, Grease, Moonraker, Hero At Large, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, Return of the Jedi, Twilight Zone:The Movie with Blue Thunder, Splash, Dreamscape, Back to the Future (multiple times over nine months), Real Genius, Warning Sign,Twice in a Lifetime, Short Circuit, The Fly (1986 remake), The Boy Who Could Fly, An American Tail, The Gate, Sleeping Beauty (Cannon Movie Tales), Masters of the Universe, Pass the Ammo, They Live, Fearing and Loathing in Las Vegas
I saw Battlestar Galactica there in Sensurround (summer ‘79), Dark Crystal (opening night, 1982), Labyrinth (1986), Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986).
At the time the theater closed I made this list of movies I saw there over the years.(I only included movies I saw in the big theater.)
1970s
The Wizard of Oz (rerelease in ‘71-'73),
Fantasia (rerelease),
The Golden Voyage of Sinbad,
Paper Moon,
Young Frankenstein,
Silent Movie,
Close Encounters of the Third Kind,
California Suite
1980s
9 to 5 (with trailer for Outland),
Time Bandits,
Blade Runner,
Poltergeist,
Blue Thunder,
Twilight Zone: The Movie (and trailer for Never Say Never Again),
Krull,
Top Secret,
2010: Odyssey 2,
Ladyhawke,
Return to Oz,
The Black Cauldron,
The Color Purple,
Santa Claus: The Movie,
Poltergeist 2: The Other Side,
Song of the South (1986 rerelease),
Golden Child,
Platoon,
Superman IV: The Quest for Peace,
Space Balls,
Ishtar,
Creepshow II,
Nothing in Common (Tom Hanks/Jackie Gleason),
The Unbearable Lightness of Being,
Blind Date,
Three Men and a Baby,
Good Morning Vietnam,
A New Life (Alan Alda/Ann-Margaret),
Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
High Spirits (I only peaked in on this one),
*Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
1990s
Dick Tracy/Roller Coaster Rabbit (Roger Rabbit featurette),
Reversal of Fortune,
Terminator 2,
The Rocketeer,
Bugsy,
Nightmare Before Christmas,
Independence Day,
Star Wars Episode One: The Phantom Menace
2000s
Star Wars Episode Two: Attack of the Clones,
Star Trek X: Nemesis,
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers,
Star Wars Episode Three: Revenge of the Sith
There’s a story in my family about my uncle, Jay Clearwaters, working there as a teenager circa the early ‘50s. Even though he was a teenager, he became assistant manager. One night, shortly after he’d gone home, armed burglars got in. The manager and his wife were tied up and beaten with a cosh and the money taken. The wife had to be hospitalized. …… My uncle could get family members in for free. My mom remembers getting to see the original Howard Hawks version of The Thing there.
That’s how I remember it in the mid-‘70s, a big theater with a lot of reds.
King Kong was playing there on June 23, 1933.
I saw Agatha there in February of that year.
There was a Braun theater in Wahpeton circa 1915. Don’t know if it had any connection to these other theaters.
Advertised back in 1915, Evening Review, January 26.
An ad for it appeared in the Helena Independent on Oct. 23, 1914.
I’ve seen reference to a Broadway theater in Salt Lake way back in 1914. Maybe it was a different theater with the same name? It played one of the silent Oz films.
In a fall, 1914 edition of the Englewood Economist, the theater is called The Linden Photodrome. (October 19, 1914, p. 3.)
I see mention of the New Orpheum in Glasgow in the March 5, 1915 edition of The Glasgow Courier.There are announcements for Tillie’s Punctured Romance, William Tell, and The Patchwork Girl of Oz.
On October 1, 1915 the Airdome showed Country Circus, a movie produced by the Oz Film Manufacturing Company after the three silent Oz features failed to make a profit. L. Frank Baum, author of the Oz books, wrote the story and probably oversaw the production (as he had on the Oz movies).
As others here have observed,the Acme seems to go back earlier than 1916. I see an ad for it in the Goldsboro Weekly Argus dated September 30, 1915. An address isn’t given, though.
Was it always called the Music Hall? I’m trying to find info. about a theater in Portsmouth called the Scenic, which in 1915, showed mostly movies by Paramount.
A movie called The Country Circus played there on November 5, 1915 (having just played at the Princess, also in Quincy, on October 28). The Country Circus was written by L. Frank Baum (The Wizard of Oz).
I just came across an LA Times circa Oct. 24, 1953 mentioning the Maynard Theater (2488 W. Washington Blvd.). It was showing the epic Russian fantasy Sadko.Apparently Maynard was open a little later than 1951 or had closed and reopened briefly?
Was there a Denny’s (or Denny’s-like) restaurant across the street from that theater in the mid-‘70s? I’m trying to figure out if I saw a movie there in '76.
The Pufnstuf movie played there for a while in 1970.
I found a reference to this theater circa 1915 in Motion Picture World.
The last movie I saw there was on 9/11/01. After watching news coverage of the Twin Towers being destroyed all day, I needed to get out. I went to the Vine to see Spielberg and Kubrick’s A.I. I walked in to see New York destroyed in the movie, too. (Since I was early the previous showing was still going.)
I saw the James Bond movie, License to Kill, there shortly after it became the Ritz.
Here are some of the movies I saw there, starting in June of ‘75 and ending spring '98. The Land That Time Forgot with The Neptune Factor, Journey Back to Oz (rerelease), King Kong (1976 remake),The Spy Who Loved Me, Grease, Moonraker, Hero At Large, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, Return of the Jedi, Twilight Zone:The Movie with Blue Thunder, Splash, Dreamscape, Back to the Future (multiple times over nine months), Real Genius, Warning Sign,Twice in a Lifetime, Short Circuit, The Fly (1986 remake), The Boy Who Could Fly, An American Tail, The Gate, Sleeping Beauty (Cannon Movie Tales), Masters of the Universe, Pass the Ammo, They Live, Fearing and Loathing in Las Vegas
I saw Battlestar Galactica there in Sensurround (summer ‘79), Dark Crystal (opening night, 1982), Labyrinth (1986), Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986).
At the time the theater closed I made this list of movies I saw there over the years.(I only included movies I saw in the big theater.)
1970s The Wizard of Oz (rerelease in ‘71-'73), Fantasia (rerelease), The Golden Voyage of Sinbad, Paper Moon, Young Frankenstein, Silent Movie, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, California Suite
1980s 9 to 5 (with trailer for Outland), Time Bandits, Blade Runner, Poltergeist, Blue Thunder, Twilight Zone: The Movie (and trailer for Never Say Never Again), Krull, Top Secret, 2010: Odyssey 2, Ladyhawke, Return to Oz, The Black Cauldron, The Color Purple, Santa Claus: The Movie, Poltergeist 2: The Other Side, Song of the South (1986 rerelease), Golden Child, Platoon, Superman IV: The Quest for Peace, Space Balls, Ishtar, Creepshow II, Nothing in Common (Tom Hanks/Jackie Gleason), The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Blind Date, Three Men and a Baby, Good Morning Vietnam, A New Life (Alan Alda/Ann-Margaret), Who Framed Roger Rabbit? High Spirits (I only peaked in on this one), *Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
1990s Dick Tracy/Roller Coaster Rabbit (Roger Rabbit featurette), Reversal of Fortune, Terminator 2, The Rocketeer, Bugsy, Nightmare Before Christmas, Independence Day, Star Wars Episode One: The Phantom Menace
2000s Star Wars Episode Two: Attack of the Clones, Star Trek X: Nemesis, The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, Star Wars Episode Three: Revenge of the Sith