Pekin Theatre

Joe Vogel on January 8, 2024 at 4:38 pm

Here is a belated response to Mark. If you want to know who uploaded a particular photo, go to the theater’s photo page, click on the thumbnail of the photo you want to know about, and when it opens look just to the right of the photo to see who uploaded it. Their name will be a link, and when you click on it it will open a page with more thumbnails of photos that user has uploaded, if any.

The photo of the Pekin’s organ was uploaded by Cinema Treasures member waldopapnyk, and the Pekin Theatre photo is one of 156 he has uploaded, many of which depict organs. I haven’t clicked on all of them to see if any others are from theaters in the Peoria area (a great many appear to be from Chicago) but will leave that to you. Happy hunting.

Mark on June 20, 2022 at 3:58 pm

Im curious to know who posted the 1970 console picture of the Hinners? Do you have any pictures of theatre organs from other Peoria area theatres?

Bud Taubert on October 15, 2018 at 3:08 pm

Program from dedication and interior view. https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=782148912117215&set=gm.955532331300812&type=3&theater

Joe Vogel on June 4, 2014 at 2:46 pm

The Pekin Theatre probably opened in late 1928. A brief announcement that the house had opened appeared in the January 6, 1929, issue of Film Daily.

heyclerok on November 13, 2007 at 8:07 pm

From the book Silent Screens, I thought this was a neat anecdote about the demolition of the Pekin Theater:

[i]“They called me up and said they had found something, a wallet at the Pekin Theater,” Robert D. king, age 56, of 7 Florentine Court, said. “I said, ‘Yeah, it’s mine. I lost it in 1959 or 1960.’”

from a report in the Pekin Daily Times (December 30, 1986) on the salvage operations at the Pekin Theater, where coins, wallets, and a class ring were found in the concrete ducts running beneath the main floor.[/i]