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Garfield Theatre
2844 W. Madison Street,
Chicago,
IL
60612
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Located in the Garfield Park neighborhood, near the intersection of Madison Street and California Avenue, the 700-seat Garfield Theatre opened in 1909, and may have been a vaudeville house in its early years prior to switching over to movies. Seating was later reduced to 450.
The Garfield Theatre closed by about 1950, due to both competetion from television as well as the beginning of the decline of the Garfield Park neighborhood. The theatre has since been torn down and the site is now a parking lot.
A smaller theatre of the same name, located at Halsted Street and 55th Street, near Garfield Boulevard in the New City neighborhood, was long ago closed and demolished.
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judging by that fine 1964 B&W photo the GARFIELD remained for other purposes since the marquee advertises some show and it looks closed but not necessarily vacated much less abandoned
The July 15, 1911, issue of The Moving Picture World ran an article called “Chicago Picture Shows” which featured brief reviews of a number of the city’s movie theaters. This is the paragraph about the Garfield Theatre:
The “Chicago Letter” in the September 16 issue of MPW also mentioned the Garfield Theatre: By the end of 1913, the Garfield Theatre was one of three houses being operated by Charles J. Schaefer. The January 24, 1914, issue of MPW noted that he had just opened the Keystone Theatre (renamed the Mode Theatre in 1935) on Sheridan Road. He also operated the Lyceum Theatre (probably the one on Cottage Grove, though the article didn’t say.)April 1968 press photo added.