Per the Star Valley Ford Theater website the Wray was built in 1935, is currently a live music & private screening venue, and has now has 280 seats.
Phone number appears to have been updated as well.
(Address on the website is for the rental office, not the theatre.)
It seems that the Roxy Theatre was a huge corner building, but the Ridge Avenue Theatre was in the middle of a block like the 1951 photo.
So maybe there was another theatre near Dupont Street?
1968 photo added via Kevin Patrick.
His copy read: Meadville’s Airway Drive-in opened in 1946, and lasted into the 1980s closing due to waning ticket sales.
Just posting this because it has the former Wilson Avenue Theater in an artist’s rendering of the proposed building next door.
But the project seems to be borrowing the theater’s address.
Update: Photo courtesy of Chicago Transit Authority.
January 2006 demolition photo added via Chris Carson.
Thank you for the additional info. I couldn’t find anything that wasn’t in the pay sites of old newspaper archives.
1938 photo in downtown Circleville added, promoting the Grand Theatre’s showing of “Birth Of A Baby”.
Two demolition photos added credit Rita Garcia Sindelar.
Facebook page for The Media Theatre.
https://www.facebook.com/mediatheatre/?hc_ref=ARQYA1HMFkNO1pBBHx2jaq3k-Qms8HUUANm9UOqOwuDsFU5crefzWIav6F4vQjwN9wU
Per the Star Valley Ford Theater website the Wray was built in 1935, is currently a live music & private screening venue, and has now has 280 seats. Phone number appears to have been updated as well. (Address on the website is for the rental office, not the theatre.)
https://fordtheaterafton.com/
1961 photo also added via Mase Mason.
It seems that the Roxy Theatre was a huge corner building, but the Ridge Avenue Theatre was in the middle of a block like the 1951 photo. So maybe there was another theatre near Dupont Street?
1959 photo added courtesy of the BrandonToday Facebook page.
1989 image added via Rick Watts.
1972 photo added via Robert Juzefski.
Here is a link to the news story.
http://fox5sandiego.com/2018/01/09/old-landmark-movie-theater-sign-topples-in-national-city/
1951 photo of Ridge Avenue from Dupont Street added via Raymond Storey. Ridge Avenue Theatre marquee is visible down the street.
1951 Fourth Of July Parade photo added credit Marin History Museum.
1946 photo added courtesy of James J. Chun.
1938 photo added via Edward C. Ungerman.
Plaza Del Lago recently sold for $48 million.
https://chicago.curbed.com/2018/¼/16850310/spanish-style-1920s-shopping-mall-sells-48-million
Current article with new marquee photo.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/skokie/news/ct-skr-old-orchard-movie-theaters-tl-1228-20180104-story.html
Current article about restoration of the sign.
http://www.advertiser-tribune.com/news/local-news/2018/01/bringing-back-the-lights/
2017 photos added credit Kevin Patrick.
1968 photo added via Kevin Patrick. His copy read: Meadville’s Airway Drive-in opened in 1946, and lasted into the 1980s closing due to waning ticket sales.
1940 image added via Tiffany Carroll Hilyer.
Just posting this because it has the former Wilson Avenue Theater in an artist’s rendering of the proposed building next door. But the project seems to be borrowing the theater’s address.
https://chicago.curbed.com/2018/1/5/16846120/uptown-development-news-tod-construction
Circa 1977 photo added courtesy of Kenn Mastrodonato.
Ken Roe, did I originally have this posted to the wrong theatre? Thanks for correcting it.