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.
Below is from a Walks through History Downtown Bentonville PDF that was not shareable as a link. It was authored on October 11, 2014 By: Rachel Silva
The Station Café—
Housed a millinery, dry goods and clothing store, and a grocery in the early years.
By the 1950s, this was the Cozy Theater, which boasted an unusual neon sign
featuring a box of strawberries at the top that appeared to fall over and spill
strawberries down the side. Altered with stucco and second floor window
openings closed
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.
June 4th-June 26th, 1969.
The Rialto is behind the Rialto II in that 1978 photo, as it is in others.
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.
Image added.
Removal of the RKO Keith’s Theater sign in 1965.
Below is from a Walks through History
Downtown Bentonville PDF that was not shareable as a link.
It was authored on October 11, 2014
By: Rachel Silva
The Station Café— Housed a millinery, dry goods and clothing store, and a grocery in the early years. By the 1950s, this was the Cozy Theater, which boasted an unusual neon sign featuring a box of strawberries at the top that appeared to fall over and spill strawberries down the side. Altered with stucco and second floor window openings closed
Apparently haunted by Bob of Bob’s Shoe Store, the tenant after Cozy Theatre.
http://www.mystery411.com/Landing_thestationcafebentonville.html
December 1966 print ad.