How bittersweet & nostalgic…What a BEAUTIFUL theater it was! Growing up in the 50’s & early 60’s on 59th & Pulaski, I have many great memories of the double bill movies especially on school night evenings and sneaking into the balcony which was almost always closed and evading the downstairs usher(yes, there were ushers on patrol then)and sitting in the very last row(vertigo!)with the World & Screen at my feet!..from Annette & Frankie Beach movies to “The Time Machine”,“The Birds”,“Gypsy”-Rosalind Russell/Natalie Wood,“Fall Of The House Of Usher”-Vincent Price etc..etc..and of course Gertie’s Ice Cream Shoppe on the corner with the great booths…:0(….those were the days my friends…(The Marquette Theater was great too, but not nearly as special as this movie “palace” known as the “COLONY”)
How bittersweet & nostalgic…What a BEAUTIFUL theater it was! Growing up in the 50’s & early 60’s on 59th & Pulaski, I have many great memories of the double bill movies especially on school night evenings and sneaking into the balcony which was almost always closed and evading the downstairs usher(yes, there were ushers on patrol then)and sitting in the very last row(vertigo!)with the World & Screen at my feet!..from Annette & Frankie Beach movies to “The Time Machine”,“The Birds”,“Gypsy”-Rosalind Russell/Natalie Wood,“Fall Of The House Of Usher”-Vincent Price etc..etc..and of course Gertie’s Ice Cream Shoppe on the corner with the great booths…:0(….those were the days my friends…(The Marquette Theater was great too, but not nearly as special as this movie “palace” known as the “COLONY”)