Showcase Cincinnati Mills 10

Apparently, some of you do not share my concern about the importance of credibility with websites that rely on user-submitted content. But, then, what do you know about credibility, Chuck? An alarming number of your posts are riddled with factual errors and misspellings…and you don’t seem to care…and, unfortunately, neither do the site’s owners. Whenever someone points out an error to you, you tend to either not respond or you come up with some lame explanation for why you think you’re being mistreated and end up ignoring the real issue of the accuracy of the information.

It is inevitable that some folks think I’m a jerk for offering corrections. Let’s face it…some people just cannot handle being corrected, regardless of how any corrections are conveyed. Others, though, don’t seem to have a problem with me because they understand that I care about accuracy and they appreciate that I actively participate in the exchange of information even when it entails engaging in an argument or debate.

Michael: Mike Rogers posted his original inquiry about a Showcase Cinema in Cincinnati on the Cincinnati Albee Theater page some days ago. It is hardly the first time that someone has posted an inquiry about a particular theater on another theater’s entry page if they are in the same area and the one being inquired about does not appear to have a page of its own.

This is is essentially what Mike posted on the Albee page: (I have combined two comments and done a bit of editing:

“…Do you know anything about SHOWCASE CINEMAS in Cincinnati? I know it was a modern theatre, but I can’t find this fourplex anywhere on CT…All I know it was located near the Tri-County Shopping Center near I-275. So this fourplex could be [now] be10 screens [i] just don’t know. It was a major theatre complex when it opened in the 70's…. It was called in 1974 SHOWCASE CINEMAS 1.2.3.4.”

I hardly find it “nonsensical” that I should question whether this Cincinnati Mills theater might be the theater Mike had in mind since a) it is in Cincinnati, and b) it is off of I-275 (which I knew from experince). As it turned out, he was thinking of the theater in Springdale, not actually in Cincinnati proper. I was simply trying to raise a point in the interest of accuracy.

Michael, no one on CT admires your probing research and detailed articles more than I, and I too wish that the some site rules were more rigorously observed. However, I think your comments are occasionally unnecessarily abrasive and hurtful.

CWalczak…I never said your comment was “nonsensical,” only that it didn’t make sense (to me). Meaning: I was surprised you were not able to “connect the dots” or “put two and two together” in regard to recognizing the theater Rogers was recalling could not possibly be the one you thought it was.

Now having read the Albee page I can see why you thought what you did. It seems you guys came to an unknowingly faulty conclusion based on some erroneous and misleading details mentioned in that discussion. It’s too bad I hadn’t seen the Albee page sooner and chimed in because then the discussion on this page might not have spun out of control.

I do think many of you are too sensitive about being corrected. It’s as if everyone is expected to unconditionally accept and love all comments which defeats the purpose of an information resource.

I do not agree that I’m abrasive or hurtful (at least not in intent), but I will admit that I can be pretty impatient with some people on these message boards. I’ll work toward improving my interaction with others. (Contact me via email if you wish to discuss further.)

Thanks Michael it is amazing the stuff you and Chuck1231 on old theatres.Wish i would have saved seven years of Boxoffice Magazines.While in the business.

Correct address is 760 Cincinnati Mills Drive, Forest Park, OH 45240