Times Theater
222 Main Street,
Savanna,
IL
61074
222 Main Street,
Savanna,
IL
61074
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The Times Theater in Savanna has been renovated nicely and always has two new releases showing. We saw The Force Awakens on the night of its national premier. At $5 per ticket, it is Carroll County’s best kept secret!
After a brief closure in August, 2012, the Times Theater has reopened under new management. See this note, posted on the Big Screen Cinema Guide site.
Here is a 1982 photo:
http://tinyurl.com/cjlvbp
In 1963, the Marchesi brothers owned the Times. August Marchesi was president and film buyer. Other Marchesi theaters in Illinois were the Amboy in Amboy and the Town in Prophetstown.
The Times Theatre was purchased in May 1979 by Dennis Bowman of Savanna, Il and operated as a single screen until November when it closed for remodeling. The Times Twin Theatre opened in December 1979 showing “Muppet Movie” and “Starting Over”. The first manager of the new operation was Konrad Radke.
The theater was renovated from a single-screen to a twin in 1979. The theater shut down in either January or February of ‘79 and reopened as a twin theater around June or July of that same year. One of the first features to play in the twin theater that summer was “The Muppet Movie”, followed a week or two later by “Apocalypse Now”, both of which my dad took me to see… since I hadn’t quite turned ten yet. Eastwood’s “Every Which Way But Loose” was one of the last movies to play on the theater’s single screen before it was shut down for the remodeling.
The Savanna Times Theater now has their own website at:
http://savannatimestheater.com
You can also see a photo of the theater at:
View link
I think the Times is a small regional chain. I seem to recall some others from my roadtrip. The lower story appears to be covered in black plywood, and the marquee looks like it was ruined during the ‘60s or '70s.