My parents bought a house in Brookfield in 1946, when I was one year old. The only movie I saw here was High Noon (hence my handle at this site). The website IMDB.com says High Noon was released on 30 July 1952, so presumably I saw it that summer. If it closed that year it must have been September or later, when kids would have been back in school.
I never heard it called the “Strand”, only “Brookfield Theater”, which are the words visible in the above photo and in the current image at Google street views.
My parents bought a house in Brookfield in 1947 (two story brick with basement for $12,500). I remember them taking my brother and me to see three movies here:
Snows of Kilimanjaro, Moulin Rouge, and Come Back Little Sheba. Since the films were released in Dec 1952-March 1953 I assume we saw them in the summer of 1953. The names may have stuck with me because each film title contained an unusual word.
In the 1920’s my maternal grandfather owned the building at the SE corner of Joliet Rd & Ogden Ave. It is commercial on the first floor and apartments on the second. My mother said she often saw movies here. She took our family there once around 1960 but I cannot recall what we saw.
My parents bought a house in Brookfield in 1946, when I was one year old. The only movie I saw here was High Noon (hence my handle at this site). The website IMDB.com says High Noon was released on 30 July 1952, so presumably I saw it that summer. If it closed that year it must have been September or later, when kids would have been back in school.
I never heard it called the “Strand”, only “Brookfield Theater”, which are the words visible in the above photo and in the current image at Google street views.
My parents bought a house in Brookfield in 1947 (two story brick with basement for $12,500). I remember them taking my brother and me to see three movies here: Snows of Kilimanjaro, Moulin Rouge, and Come Back Little Sheba. Since the films were released in Dec 1952-March 1953 I assume we saw them in the summer of 1953. The names may have stuck with me because each film title contained an unusual word.
In the 1920’s my maternal grandfather owned the building at the SE corner of Joliet Rd & Ogden Ave. It is commercial on the first floor and apartments on the second. My mother said she often saw movies here. She took our family there once around 1960 but I cannot recall what we saw.