I wrote a script based on my experiences exploring the Granada and Uptown theaters as a teenager after they closed down and also from the memories I had seeing movies as a kid in a place as grand as the Nortown:
I was Dave Prowse’s (Darth Vader) liason during a convention appearance he was doing in Chicago in 1995 and I drove him past the Nortown telling him it’s where I saw “Star Wars” for the first time and how it was such an influence on me wanting to become a filmmaker.
My grandmother used to live in the neighborhood and I remember how much fun it was for my brother and I to stay over night there and see movies at the Nortown when my dad came by to get us after work at the also demolished Bell and Howell that used to be over on McCormick. And visit the camera store to buy Super 8 movie shorts of the films we saw there, or spend time at the old hobby shop kitty corner on Western and Devon and also buy toys at Cut Rate around the corner.
So many memories, it breaks my heart how much this neighborhood has changed and how it’s wven worse that it’s lost the Nortown that was so much a part of it’s character.
I am wondering if there is an audience for a movie about old movie palaces and people involved in an adventure saving one. It would help me gauge if there is an audience for such a film since I wrote a script and would love to be able to pitch it to investors with some proof there is an audience for it… and based on the size of this community and how much nostalgia I believe there is, I think it would be well received.
I posted a tribute to the Nortown on my Myspace blog in June, I had no idea it would take them this long to pull it down…
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My blood is boiling >:–(
I think the last show I saw there was “Die Hard” after it had been split into three theaters. “Temple of Doom” before that.
Tragic.
JV
I wrote a script based on my experiences exploring the Granada and Uptown theaters as a teenager after they closed down and also from the memories I had seeing movies as a kid in a place as grand as the Nortown:
http://www.nitestar.com/palace_synopsis.html
I was Dave Prowse’s (Darth Vader) liason during a convention appearance he was doing in Chicago in 1995 and I drove him past the Nortown telling him it’s where I saw “Star Wars” for the first time and how it was such an influence on me wanting to become a filmmaker.
My grandmother used to live in the neighborhood and I remember how much fun it was for my brother and I to stay over night there and see movies at the Nortown when my dad came by to get us after work at the also demolished Bell and Howell that used to be over on McCormick. And visit the camera store to buy Super 8 movie shorts of the films we saw there, or spend time at the old hobby shop kitty corner on Western and Devon and also buy toys at Cut Rate around the corner.
So many memories, it breaks my heart how much this neighborhood has changed and how it’s wven worse that it’s lost the Nortown that was so much a part of it’s character.
Jerry Vasilatos
I am wondering if there is an audience for a movie about old movie palaces and people involved in an adventure saving one. It would help me gauge if there is an audience for such a film since I wrote a script and would love to be able to pitch it to investors with some proof there is an audience for it… and based on the size of this community and how much nostalgia I believe there is, I think it would be well received.
http://www.nitestar.com/palace_synopsis.html
Thanks guys-
Jerry Vasilatos