Loew's Konover Theatre
5445 Collins Avenue,
Miami Beach,
FL
33140
5445 Collins Avenue,
Miami Beach,
FL
33140
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The Hotel Plaza opened in 1967. Miami Beach in the early 1900’s was a sandbar.
There was a Grand Theatre at this site in the early 1900s. Was the Konover just a later iteration of the Grand or was the Grand demolished? The seating capacity was roughly the same.
Grand opening ad posted. Opened with “The Man Who Would be King”.
This was originally a Hilton and later became the Playboy Plaza. Jackie Gleason purportedly helped in the design of the theater when it opened in ‘67 and subsequently Maurice Revitz and Loews plunked down close to a million for its renovation.
Marcus Loew was born on tis date in 1870. 141 years ago.
Should have thought of that when we played"BEST LITTLE WHOREHOUSE IN TEXAS" at Regency Mall,by that time that part of Augusta was noted for all the bad things.
Relinking.
TAXI DRIVER for cab drivers what a comcept.
Screening “Taxi Driver” to cab drivers is reminiscent of the time the Miami Film Festival premiered “My Beautiful Laundrette”… sponsored by Maytag. The Lonely Repairman might have been in for a surprise…