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wolfgirl500 commented about Grand Opera House on Mar 12, 2015 at 9:11 pm

By May 14, 1950 the Esquire was ordered closed and the building was condemned as a fire hazard. There is a photo of the demolition in the photo page of the Esquire Theater.

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wolfgirl500 commented about Mr. and Mrs.Edward Powers who saved the Warner Theater from the wrecking ball. on Mar 12, 2015 at 7:09 pm

Mr. and Mrs. Edward Powers who saved the Warner Theater from the wrecking ball.

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wolfgirl500 commented about Powers Auditorium on Mar 12, 2015 at 6:30 pm

What is sad is the fact that the Warners also were the last owners of the Dome Theatre yet there is nothing remaining of that theatre in the way of its projection equipment. The Dome showed The Jazz Singer on first run, and it would be great if DeYor/Powers would have a film festival featuring Warner’s greatest movies. I wish that some Angels could come forward with the funds to sponsor a Warner’s Film Festival.

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wolfgirl500 commented about Cascade Picture Palace on Mar 12, 2015 at 5:53 pm

I went to the web site www.warnerfilmcenter.org and it has absolutely nothing to do with the Cascade Picture Palace or even movies.

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wolfgirl500 commented about Cascade Picture Palace on Mar 12, 2015 at 12:37 pm

If you will go yo the Youngstown page, you will find that there were movie theaters here as early as 1906, and as was stated earlier, the Warner brothers were involved in at least the first two to show movies, one of which was the Grand Opera House hardly a store front movie. they were also involved financially in at least three other downtown theaters before building the Warner Theater. Now I do not wish to come off as a snob, or throw cold water on the people of New Castle, but facts are facts … the Warner family was from Youngstown … the family owned businesses in Youngstown … and the brothers were deeply involved in Youngstown’s theater live long before they opened their little theater in New Castle.

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wolfgirl500 commented about The Moorish Lobby on Mar 12, 2015 at 11:25 am

The Spanish Room off the Grand Lobby.

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wolfgirl500 commented about Lobby on Mar 12, 2015 at 11:21 am

Grand Lobby

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wolfgirl500 commented about Stage on Mar 12, 2015 at 11:21 am

Powers Auditorium

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wolfgirl500 commented about View from stage on Mar 12, 2015 at 11:20 am

Powers Auditorium

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wolfgirl500 commented about Ford Family Recital Hall 1 on Mar 12, 2015 at 11:20 am

Ford Recital Hall

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wolfgirl500 commented about Ford Family Recital Hall on Mar 12, 2015 at 11:19 am

Ford Recital Hall

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wolfgirl500 commented about Outdoor Auto Theatre on Mar 11, 2015 at 10:44 pm

If it was just outside the Youngstown City Limits on Route 62 that would have either placed it in Hubbard city, or Hubbard Township, in Trumbull County.

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wolfgirl500 commented about Outdoor Auto Theatre on Mar 11, 2015 at 10:26 pm

To be very honest, I didn’t even know about it until I stumbled over it while looking for another theater.

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wolfgirl500 commented about Powers Auditorium on Mar 11, 2015 at 2:26 pm

Powers has gathered together memorabilia from its Warner Theater days including one of the first projectors, ushers uniforms and other material that will go on display in the Grand Lobby for a week, and then turned over to the Mahoning Valley Historical Society for preservation, and the event will be open to the public free of charge during regular business hours. (SEE AD IN THE PHOTO SECTION FOR THIS THEATER.)

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wolfgirl500 commented about Main Lounge on Mar 11, 2015 at 2:04 pm

Lady’s Lounge

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wolfgirl500 commented about Men's Lounge on Mar 11, 2015 at 2:03 pm

Men’s Lounge

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wolfgirl500 commented about Powers Auditorium on Mar 11, 2015 at 2:00 pm

Youngstown Symphony Orchestra

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wolfgirl500 commented about Powers Auditorium on Mar 11, 2015 at 1:58 pm

Looking out from center stage.

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wolfgirl500 commented about Powers Auditorium on Mar 11, 2015 at 1:57 pm

This stairway leads to the upper balcony.

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wolfgirl500 commented about Wilson Theatre on Mar 11, 2015 at 12:46 am

Joe: I just came across a Vindicator display ad that did use “Wilson Avenue Theatre”, but in other ads it uses other varient names. It’s the same theater regardless of the name since there were no commercial buildings across the street, and the Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps show only the one theater.

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wolfgirl500 commented about Wilson Theatre on Mar 10, 2015 at 10:33 am

Joe, the Youngstown Ice Company started out as an ice dealer, but later became a building supply company that was involved in supplying building material for many of our early buildings. Why they continued to call themself Youngstown Ice Company is anyone’s guess. In my library of historic Youngstown, I have a photo of this business but since it would be off topic here I won’t post it.

As to the Wilson ever being called the Wilson Avenue Theater, none of its newspaper ads had that name. Only the Wilsonian and Wilson Theatre applied.

Saddly, most of the local theaters did not do regular advertizing on a regular basis, and some didn’t run newspaper ads at all, so that we are left with little to go on concerning the early theaters.

I rely on our public library to get information about these early houses, and they do the best they can to help me, but with so little to go on, we’re at a real loss.

Youngstown before about 1935 had two daily newspapers, The Youngstown Vindicator and the Youngstown Telegram, but Google only digitized the Vindicator so we can’t have a second source to rely on when researching local theaters.

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wolfgirl500 commented about Theatorium on Mar 10, 2015 at 2:08 am

I just received material from the Public Library and they were not able to provide much more into than is already here.

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wolfgirl500 commented about Cameo Theater on Mar 8, 2015 at 6:29 pm

In one of their newspaper ads the theater was reported to be part of the Paramount-Publix chain of theaters.

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wolfgirl500 commented about Idora Park Theatre on Mar 8, 2015 at 6:25 pm

The theater at the Idora Park amusement park went by two different names during it’s years of operation. The first was Casino Theater and the second was the Idora Theatre. It was both a movie; vaudeville and legitamate theater. Because of all the changes that the amusement park underwent over the years, little is known about this theater other than what we learn through newspaper ads.

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wolfgirl500 commented about Alvin Theatre on Mar 7, 2015 at 1:52 pm

The Alvin Theatre was the sister theater of the Lyric. In today’s world, the new wing of DeYor Center For The Performing Arts sits there.