Growing up in Springfield in the 50s-60s, I always thought the Orpheum Theater was a beautiful, grand theater (even as a crazy teenager!). After graduation from high school, my parents moved to Kansas City and soon thereafter, Uncle Sam called me. Long story but I finally settled in the Chicago area but still have fond memories of going to the Orpheum with my friends – not only to watch movies but to bowl and play billards in the lower level of the theater.
If anyone reading this would have any good pictures (inside and outside) of this grand theater (especially circa 50s period), I would gladly pay a reasonable fee to get these pictures.
Don’t want to sound arrogant, but I (Roger Beltz) uploaded the pictures you are seeing on this page (Not P Shaw). I don’t know what happened to the comments that I entered at the time I uploaded this picture. The comments seen below the picture might be that of P Shaw but, as I say, I uploaded the picture and I have this picture licensed under Creative Commons as © All Rights Reserved. It seems that the upload application being used my Cinema Treasures is not working properly.
Growing up in Springfield in the 50s-60s, I always thought the Orpheum Theater was a beautiful, grand theater (even as a crazy teenager!). After graduation from high school, my parents moved to Kansas City and soon thereafter, Uncle Sam called me. Long story but I finally settled in the Chicago area but still have fond memories of going to the Orpheum with my friends – not only to watch movies but to bowl and play billards in the lower level of the theater.
If anyone reading this would have any good pictures (inside and outside) of this grand theater (especially circa 50s period), I would gladly pay a reasonable fee to get these pictures.