Thank you for the photo, and for the information. I’m glad to find out there are still people out there who have the same fond memories (and wonder) that I have for the Albee, and all the RKO theaters in Cincinnati. For anyone who was never in it, all I can say is that its interior lived up to the facade, and then some. And when a movie ran at the Albee, you knew you were seeing something special: for example, when The Great Escape premiered there, the motorcycle used in the famous “jump scene” was roped off on display in the lobby. When they showed Away All Boats, the lobby held a huge scale model of the ship in the movie, the USS Randall (renamed USS Belinda in the movie). Years later, when just back from Vietnam, I saw The Godfather there, and remember thinking it was amazing they didn’t have some dummies in the lobby arranged to look like they’d just been gunned down (heh).
I loved the place. Since then, I’ve been to the Hall Of Mirrors in Versailles – yawn – hell, I’d already been to the Albee!
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Thank you for the photo, and for the information. I’m glad to find out there are still people out there who have the same fond memories (and wonder) that I have for the Albee, and all the RKO theaters in Cincinnati. For anyone who was never in it, all I can say is that its interior lived up to the facade, and then some. And when a movie ran at the Albee, you knew you were seeing something special: for example, when The Great Escape premiered there, the motorcycle used in the famous “jump scene” was roped off on display in the lobby. When they showed Away All Boats, the lobby held a huge scale model of the ship in the movie, the USS Randall (renamed USS Belinda in the movie). Years later, when just back from Vietnam, I saw The Godfather there, and remember thinking it was amazing they didn’t have some dummies in the lobby arranged to look like they’d just been gunned down (heh).
I loved the place. Since then, I’ve been to the Hall Of Mirrors in Versailles – yawn – hell, I’d already been to the Albee!