I have been looking through issues of the Kittanning Simpson Leader-Times on www.newspaperachive.com and the last ad I have been able to find for the Columbia Theater is for the week of March 24, 1965, when the theater was showing a double bill of “Baby, the Rain Must Fall” and “Send Me No Flowers.”
Not sure if this link works as it’s from Newspaper Archives.com. The article is from the Kittanning Simpson-Leader edition of April 24, 1975 (page 10)about the Liberty Theater. A wonderful article about John D. Nagy, who owned and operated it, and his lifelong love of movies and career in the theater industry.
Browsing through the movie ads in the Indiana Evening Gazette for 1959, the only theater listed for Homer City is called the Homer Theater (not the Empire), so it must have been called that at one time. I would guess that Homer City was too small to have two theaters, so they must be one and the same. The Indiana area in those days also had 2 drive-ins, the Super 422 and the Palace Gardens.
1972-1975 Films at Loew’s Grand – Atlanta (Dates are the opening week’s Wednesday)(Research from microfilms of The Atlanta Constitution).
12/22/71 Soul Soldier
01/12/72 Hot Pants Holiday
01/19/72 My Old Man’s Place
01/26/72 J. W. Coop
02/09/72 Cry Uncle
02/23/72 Mark of the Devil
03/22/72 The Love Cult
03/29/72 The Ten Commandments
04/19/72 Georgia, Georgia
05/03/72 Buck and the Preacher
05/31/72 The Legend of “Black” Charley
07/19/72 Night of the Lepus
08/02/72 Blacula
08/30/72 Melinda
10/18/72 The Swinging Stewardesses
11/01/72 The Dirtiest Girl I Ever Met
11/08/72 Trouble Man
12/20/72 Black Gunn
01/24/73 Slaughter/Blacula
01/31/73 Last House on the Left
02/21/73 Shaft/Shaft’s Big Score
02/28/73 Wattstax
04/18/73 The Mack
05/30/73 Charley One-Eye
06/13/73 The Soul of “Black” Charley
06/27/73 Scream, Blacula, Scream
08/01/73 Cleopatra Jones
09/26/73 Kung Fu—The Invisible Fist/Duel of the Iron Fist
10/10/73 The Spook Who Sat by the Door
11/07/73 Coffy/The Mack
12/05/73 The Karate Killer
12/19/73 Hell Up in Harlem
01/23/74 Bamboo Gods and Iron Men
02/06/74 Black Belt Jones
03/13/74 The Dragon’s Vengeance
03/20/74 Street Gangs of Hong Kong
03/27/74 Deranged
04/03/74 Three Tough Guys
04/24/74 Thomasine and Bushrod
05/15/74 Mark of the Devil, Part II
05/29/74 Africa Uncensored
06/12/74 The Take
06/19/74 The Mandarin Magician
06/26/74 The Exorcist
07/24/74 The Education of Sonny Carson
08/14/74 Black Samson
09/11/74 Sting of the Dragon Masters/Attack of the Kung Fu Girls
09/25/74 Lady Sings the Blues/Education of Sonny Carson
10/02/74 Zatoichi—The Blind Swordsman
10/16/74 The House on Skull Mountain
11/06/74 The Street Fighter
11/20/74 The Black Dragon
12/11/74 The Chinese Mechanic/The Mandarin Magician
12/18/74 Boss Nigger
01/22/75 Serpico/Death Wish
01/29/75 The Devil’s Nightmare/In the Devil’s Garden
02/12/75 Bogard
02/26/75 The Beast Must Die/Seizure
03/05/75 Report to the Commissioner
03/19/75 Force Four
04/09/75 Enter the Dragon/Red Sun
04/16/75 Nigger Lover
04/30/75 The Candy Tangerine Man
05/21/75 Pop Goes the Weasel
06/04/75 Bug
06/11/75 Lepke
06/25/75 Bruce Lee and I
07/02/75 Superdude
07/23/75 Get Nigger Rich on # 666
07/30/75 Ali, the Man…Ali, the Fighter
08/13/75 Cooley High
10/15/75 Let’s Do It Again
12/24/75 Aaron Loves Angela
(My research stops at the end of 1975 – if anyone can cover the remaining films, it would be nice. A few of these “Blaxploitation” titles were a little offensive, using a word I wouldn’t use, but I copied them as they were.)
1967-1971 Films at Loew’s Grand – Atlanta (Dates are the opening week’s Wednesday)(Research from microfilms of The Atlanta Constitution).
12/21/66 The Bible
05/24/67 The Way West
06/14/67 Gunn
06/28/67 Barefoot in the Park
08/02/67 Up the Down Staircase
08/30/67 The Bobo
09/13/67 Darling/Dear John
09/27/67 Ski on the Wild Side
10/04/67 Gone With the Wind
07/10/68 Doctor Dolittle
09/18/68 Helga
10/16/68 Duffy
11/06/68 Star!
02/05/69 The Lion in Winter
06/25/69 The Wild Bunch
07/23/69 The April Fools
08/20/69 Ben-Hur
09/17/69 Chastity
10/01/69 The Oblong Box
10/15/69 Change of Mind
10/29/69 Two Gentlemen Sharing
11/12/69 Sweden, Heaven, and Hell
11/19/69 Angel, Angel…Down We Go
12/03/69 The Comic
12/10/69 True Grit/El Dorado
12/17/69 Hello, Dolly!
04/22/70 The Liberation of L. B. Jones
05/20/70 A Man Called Horse
06/17/70 The Grasshopper
07/08/70 Beyond the Valley of the Dolls
08/12/70 Chisum
09/02/70 Count Yorga, Vampire
09/16/70 The Man from C.O.T.T.O.N. (Purlie Victorious)
09/23/70 King
09/30/70 I Am Curious (Yellow)
10/07/70 Mondo Cane I/Mondo Cane II
10/14/70 Threesome
11/04/70 a.k.a. Cassius Clay
11/11/70 Trog/Taste the Blood of Dracula
11/18/70 WUSA
12/23/70 There Was a Crooked Man…
01/13/71 The Great White Hope
02/10/71 Doctors' Wives
03/10/71 A Man Called Sledge
03/24/71 The Great White Hope
04/07/71 Brother John
04/28/71 Lawrence of Arabia
05/12/71 Watermelon Man/The Liberation of L. B. Jones
05/19/71 Daddy, Darling
05/26/71 The Abominable Dr. Phibes
06/09/71 Cat O' Nine Tails
06/23/71 Big Jake
07/22/71 The Seven Minutes
08/04/71 The Omega Man
09/08/71 Riot/Up Tight
09/15/71 The Red Tent
09/22/71 Let’s Scare Jessica to Death
09/29/71 Black Jesus
10/06/71 The Great White Hope/100 Rifles
10/13/71 High Yellow
10/27/71 Planet of the Apes/Beneath the Planet of Apes
11/03/71 Skin Game
11/24/71 Man in the Wilderness
12/22/71 Soul Soldier
1963-1966 Films at Loew’s Grand – Atlanta (Dates are the opening week’s Wednesday)(Research from microfilms of The Atlanta Constitution).
12/26/62 Billy Rose’s Jumbo
01/23/63 Who’s Got the Action?
02/06/63 The Password is Courage
02/13/63 Diamond Head
03/06/63 Days of Wine and Roses
03/27/63 The Courtship of Eddie’s Father
04/10/63 The Birds
05/08/63 The Ugly American
05/15/63 Come Fly With Me
05/29/63 Hud
06/19/63 Flipper
07/03/63 PT 109
07/17/63 Donovan’s Reef
07/31/63 A Gathering of Eagles
08/14/63 Captain Sindbad
08/28/63 The Haunting
09/11/63 Wall of Noise
09/18/63 Show Boat/The Great Caruso
09/25/63 The VIPs
11/06/63 Twilight of Honor
11/20/63 The Wheeler Dealers
12/11/63 Common Law Wife
12/18/63 Rose Marie/Julius Caesar
12/25/63 The Prize
01/22/64 Children of the Damned
02/05/64 Any Number Can Win
02/12/64 Love with the Proper Stranger
03/11/64 Mail Order Bride
03/18/64 Shock Treatment
03/25/64 The Molesters
04/08/64 Don’t Give Up the Ship/Rock-A-Bye Baby
04/15/64 Night Must Fall
04/29/64 Tamahine
05/13/64 The Thin Red Line
05/27/64 Lady in a Cage
06/10/64 Viva Las Vegas
07/08/64 Robin and the Seven Hoods
08/05/64 The New Interns
08/19/64 A House is Not a Home
09/02/64 Of Human Bondage
09/30/64 The Visit
10/14/64 Fate is the Hunter
10/28/64 The Young Lovers
11/11/64 The Outrage
12/02/64 Guns at Batasi
12/09/64 Four Days in November
12/16/64 Gold for the Caesars
12/23/64 Kiss Me, Stupid
01/20/65 Quick, Before It Melts
01/27/65 Get Yourself a College Girl
02/10/65 36 Hours
03/03/65 Signpost to Murder
03/10/65 Psycho
03/31/65 John Goldfarb, Please Come Home
04/14/65 Girl Happy
05/05/65 Masquerade
05/12/65 Young Cassidy
05/19/65 Dr. No/From Russia, With Love
06/23/65 The Yellow Rolls-Royce
07/28/65 Clarence, the Cross-Eyed Lion
08/04/65 Operation Crossbow
08/25/65 Help!
09/15/65 Billie
09/22/65 Never on Sunday/Topkapi
09/29/65 Paris Secret
10/06/65 The Reward
10/13/65 The Hallelujah Trail
11/03/65 The Nanny
11/17/65 King Rat
12/01/65 Master of Horror/Master of Terror
12/08/65 Grand Hotel/Dinner at 8
12/22/65 Do Not Disturb
01/12/66 Tom Jones/Irma La Douce
01/26/66 The Heroes of Telemark
02/09/66 Lord Love a Duck
02/23/66 A Patch of Blue
03/30/66 Doctor Zhivago
12/21/66 The Bible
1960-1962 Films at Loew’s Grand – Atlanta (Dates are the opening week’s Wednesday)(Research from microfilms of The Atlanta Constitution).
12/30/59 Solomon and Sheba
01/27/60 The Last Angry Man
02/03/60 Never So Few
02/17/60 Suddenly, Last Summer
03/16/60 Who Was that Lady?
04/06/60 Home From the Hill
04/20/60 The Unforgiven
05/04/60 Please Don’t Eat the Daisies
05/25/60 The Gallant Hours
06/08/60 The Giant of Marathon
06/15/60 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
06/22/60 Macumba Love
06/29/60 Bells are Ringing
07/20/60 Pollyanna
08/10/60 Elmer Gantry
08/31/60 The Time Machine
09/14/60 Pay or Die
09/21/60 The Angel Wore Red
09/28/60 Hell to Eternity
10/05/60 Night Fighters
10/12/60 The Magnificent Seven
10/26/60 Let No Man Write My Epitaph
11/02/60 Ruby
11/09/60 Where the Hot Wind Blows
11/16/60 Butterfield 8
12/14/60 The Facts of Life
12/28/60 Where the Boys Are
01/18/61 Village of the Damned
01/25/61 A Fever in the Blood
02/01/61 The Misfits
02/22/61 The Great Imposter
03/01/61 Go Naked in the World
03/08/61 Gone With the Wind
04/26/61 The Alamo
05/17/61 Cimarron
05/24/61 The Young Savages
06/07/61 Atlantis, the Lost Continent
06/14/61 The Last Sunset
06/28/61 Morgan the Pirate
07/05/61 Two Rode Together
07/12/61 The Naked Edge
07/26/61 Tammy Tell Me True
08/09/61 The Honeymoon Machine
08/16/61 The Thief of Bagdad
08/23/61 Ada
09/06/61 Goodbye Again
09/13/61 The Young Doctors
09/20/61 A Thunder of Drums
09/27/61 Paris Holiday
10/04/61 Claudelle Inglish
10/11/61 Bridge to the Sun
10/18/61 Back Street
11/08/61 Town Without Pity
11/22/61 Bachelor in Paradise
12/06/61 X-15
12/20/61 The Wonders of Aladdin
12/27/61 Pocketful of Miracles
01/10/62 Knights of the Round Table/Ivanhoe
01/17/62 The Happy Thieves
01/24/62 Colossus of Rhodes
01/31/62 One, Two, Three
02/14/62 The 4 Horsemen of the Apocalypse
02/28/62 Sergeants 3
03/21/62 Sweet Bird of Youth
04/11/62 The Outsider
04/18/62 Follow That Dream
05/02/62 The Horizontal Lieutenant
05/09/62 Judgement at Nuremberg
05/23/62 All Fall Down
05/30/62 Ride the High Country
06/06/62 Lonely are the Brave
06/13/62 The Road to Hong Kong
06/27/62 The Tartars
07/04/62 Boys' Night Out
07/18/62 Lolita
08/08/62 Birdman of Alcatraz
08/29/62 The Spiral Road
09/05/62 Two Weeks in Another Town
09/12/62 7 Brides for 7 Brothers/Father of the Bride
09/19/62 Damon and Pythias
09/26/62 No Man is an Island
10/03/62 I Thank a Fool
10/10/62 A Very Private Affair
10/17/62 The Chapman Report
11/07/62 The Sky Above, The Mud Below
11/14/62 Period of Adjustment
12/05/62 Gay Purr-ee
12/12/62 Escape from East Berlin
12/19/62 The Scarface Mob
12/26/62 Billy Rose’s Jumbo
The building housing the Victor Theater and a shoe store was purchased by Lawrence Savings and Trust in mid-July 1962 to be razed for an expansion to the bank, parking lot and drive-thru window. The theater appears to have closed the weekend on July 14-15, 1962 with the final booking of “Hunchback of Notre Dame”, “The Big Circus”, and “The Plunderers”.
The Penn Theater’s last week was April 24-30, 1968. The final film to play there was “In the Heat of the Night,” in its return to theaters after winning the Academy Award for Best Picture of 1967.
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In its reincarnation as the Cinema, its grand opening was Friday, November 22, 1968. The opening feature was the New Castle premiere of 2001: A Space Odyssey.
This Google street view and map are wrong – they both show a portion of Brownsville Road in South Park (Allegheny County)south of Pittsburgh. Brownsville, PA is in Fayette County.
The Ritz was twinned in 1971. It closed the week of May 19-26, 1971 for the renovations, and the two smaller theaters opened separately. The Ritz I opened on July 14, 1971 with “Love Story” and the Ritz II on August 7, 1971 with “Ryan’s Daughter.”
Although it probably was still standing and was used for special events, the Lyric Theater doesn’t show any films advertised for the rest of 1967 past “Warning Shot” the week of February 22, 1967.
Other area theaters were the Rex in Curwensville, the Sheckel in Houtzdale, the Super 322 Drive-In between Clearfield and Philipsburg, and of course, the Rowland in Philipsburg, PA.
Movies that played at the Delman Theater in Houston, TX from 01/01/73 to 12/31/75. Research is from old microfilms of The Houston Post and The Houston Chronicle. The Dates given are the Wednesday of the opening week.
01/01/73 1776
03/14/73 Billy Jack
03/28/73 Lost Horizon
06/06/73 Paper Moon
10/31/73 The Way We Were
12/19/73 Papillon
03/13/74 The Last Detail
05/01/74 Badlands
07/10/74 For Pete’s Sake
09/11/74 Harrad Summer
10/09/74 The Gambler
11/20/74 The Klansman
12/18/74 The Phantom of the Paradise
01/22/75 Malizia
02/12/75 The Stepford Wives
04/09/75 Harry and Tonto
04/23/75 Hearts and Minds
05/14/75 The Savage is Loose
05/21/75 Mandingo
09/17/75 The Man in the Glass Booth
10/08/75 Hard Times
11/12/75 Mahogany
12/17/75 The Story of O
(I may have only scribbled down first-run films for this last batch, omitting second runs, etc., because I don’t think “Mandingo” stayed at the Delman for 4 months! But these are all my notes.)
Movies that played at the Delman Theater in Houston, TX from 01/01/67 to 12/31/72. Research is from old microfilms of The Houston Post and The Houston Chronicle. The Dates given are the Wednesday of the opening week.
01/01/67 Gambit
02/15/67 Georgy Girl
05/03/67 Blow-Up
06/28/67 Woman Times Seven
08/09/67 The Jokers
09/13/67 Our Man Flint/In Like Flint
09/27/67 Accident
10/04/67 Becket
10/18/67 The Birds, the Bees, and the Italians
11/15/67 The Sound of Music (pop prices)
12/13/67 Privilege
12/20/67 Valley of the Dolls
04/10/68 Closely Watched Trains
05/01/68 Elvira Madigan
07/17/68 How Sweet It Is!
09/04/68 The Secret Life of an American Wife
10/16/68 The Split
11/06/68 Penelope
11/13/68 Benjamin
11/27/68 Barefoot in the Park/The Odd Couple
12/18/68 Romeo and Juliet
03/26/69 The Love Bug
06/25/69 Goodbye, Columbus
09/24/69 Easy Rider
12/17/69 (Closed for refurbishing – purchased by Loew’s – renamed Loew’s Delman)
12/24/69 The Secret of Santa Vittoria
01/28/70 Gaily, Gaily
02/25/70 Z
04/22/70 The Kremlin Letter
04/29/70 Women in Love
05/27/70 Fellini’s Satyricon
06/24/70 The Landlord
07/15/70 The Strawberry Statement
08/12/70 They Call Me Mister Tibbs
09/02/70 The Revolutionary
09/16/70 The Angel Levine
09/23/70 Threesome
10/21/70 The Baby Maker
11/18/70 The Twelve Chairs
12/23/70 The Owl and the Pussycat
05/26/71 Lawrence of Arabia
06/16/71 Billy Jack
08/18/71 The Anderson Tapes
09/29/71 Drive, He Said
10/13/71 See No Evil
11/03/71 The French Connection
12/22/71 $ (Dollars)
02/16/72 The Last Picture Show
07/26/72 Butterflies are Free
10/25/72 The Deadly Trap
11/08/72 Dirty Little Billy
12/20/72 1776
Movies that played at the Delman Theater in Houston, TX from 01/01/63 to 12/31/66. Research is from old microfilms of The Houston Post and The Houston Chronicle. The Dates given are the Wednesday of the opening week.
01/01/63 In Search of the Castaways
02/06/63 Son of Flubber
04/10/63 The Miracle of the White Stallions
05/22/63 Sundays and Cybele
05/29/63 The Wrong Arm of the Law
06/12/63 Savage Sam/Yellowstone Cubs
07/17/63 Summer Magic
09/04/63 The Mouse on the Moon
09/18/63 Of Love and Desire/Marilyn
09/25/63 Oklahoma/The King and I
10/02/63 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
10/30/63 Fantasia
11/20/63 The Incredible Journey
12/25/63 The Sword in the Stone
02/05/64 Lilies of the Field
02/19/64 The Misadventures of Merlin Jones
03/25/64 A Tiger Walks
05/06/64 South Pacific
05/27/64 The Bridge on the River Kwai
06/17/64 The Three Lives of Thomasina
07/08/64 The Moon-Spinners
08/26/64 Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow
10/07/64 Looking for Love/Kill or Cure
10/14/64 The Incredible Journey/20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
10/21/64 Mary Poppins
02/24/65 Those Calloways
03/31/65 World Without Sun
04/07/65 Seance on a Wet Afternoon/Dr. Strangelove
04/28/65 Girl with Green Eyes/That Man from Rio
05/05/65 Lawrence of Arabia
05/12/65 Harlow (Electronovision)
05/19/65 The Hustler
06/09/65 Marriage, Italian Style/Two Women
06/16/65 Tom Jones
06/23/65 Von Ryan’s Express
09/01/65 Casanova ‘70
09/29/65 Laurel & Hardy’s Laughing 20s
10/06/65 The Secret of My Success
10/27/65 Shenandoah/Charade
11/03/65 Carousel/Flower Drum Song
11/10/65 The Collector/Bambole
11/17/65 The Sword in the Stone/The Incredible Mr. Limpet
12/01/65 The Railroad Man
12/08/65 The Longest Day
12/22/65 The 10th Victim
01/26/66 Darling/Love with the Proper Stranger
02/02/66 Darling
03/09/66 An Evening with Batman and Robin
03/23/66 The Leather Boys
04/06/66 The Trouble with Angels
05/25/66 Born Free/The Golden Horseshoe Revue
06/29/66 The Guns of Navarone/Born Free
07/20/66 Dear John
09/14/66 The Sleeping Car Murder
09/28/66 Morgan
10/19/66 Gigi
11/09/66 The Wrong Box
12/21/66 Gambit
Movies that played at the Delman Theater in Houston, TX from 01/01/60 to 12/31/62. Research is from old microfilms of The Houston Post and The Houston Chronicle. The Dates given are the Wednesday of the opening week.
01/01/60 John Paul Jones
01/13/60 A Star is Born
01/20/60 Edge of Eternity/Yesterday’s Enemy
01/27/60 It Happened in Rome/Too Many Crooks
02/10/60 A Touch of Larceny
02/24/60 The Diary of Anne Frank
03/09/60 Operation Petticoat
05/11/60 Wild Strawberries
05/25/60 The Lovers
06/22/60 Around the World in 80 Days
07/20/60 Company of Hearts
08/03/60 The Greatest Show on Earth
08/17/60 Sons and Lovers
09/07/60 The Day they Robbed the Bank of England/Platinum High School
09/14/60 The Magician
10/05/60 The Jungle Cat
11/02/60 The 400 Blows
11/09/60 The Captain’s Table
12/21/60 Spartacus
03/15/61 The Virgin Spring
04/05/61 The Entertainer
05/24/61 Tunes of Glory
06/21/61 The League of Gentlemen
06/28/61 Never Take Candy from a Stranger/Beyond All Limits
07/05/61 Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
07/19/61 A Raisin in the Sun
08/02/61 A Cold Wind in August
08/16/61 The Truth
09/20/61 Secrets of Women
09/27/61 Picnic/The Caine Mutiny
10/04/61 Hiroshima, My Love
10/11/61 Pure Hell at St. Trinian’s
10/18/61 Season of Passion
10/25/61 The Mark
11/15/61 The Man Who Wagged His Tail
11/22/61 Two-Way Stretch
12/06/61 Rocco and His Brothers
12/13/61 Never on Sunday/Room at the Top
12/20/61 Mysterious Island
12/27/61 The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone
01/17/62 Call Me Genius
01/24/62 The Devil’s Eye
02/07/62 Leda
02/14/62 The Happy Thieves
02/21/62 Pinocchio
04/04/62 Splendor in the Grass/Fanny
04/11/62 Moon Pilot
05/16/62 Through a Glass Darkly
05/30/62 Pollyanna
06/06/62 Big Red
07/11/62 Oklahoma
08/01/62 Jack, the Giant Killer
08/08/62 Harold Lloyd’s World of Comedy/La Belle Americaine
08/22/62 Never Let Go/It Happened in Broad Daylight
08/29/62 A Taste of Honey
09/19/62 Wild Strawberries/Lesson in Love
09/26/62 Secrets of Women/The Virgin Spring
10/03/62 Waltz of the Toreadors/Damn Yankees
10/10/62 Almost Angels/Lady and the Tramp
11/14/62 Phaedra
12/05/62 Operation Snatch/Behind the Great Wall
12/12/62 The Magnificent Seven/The Pajama Game
12/19/62 In Search of the Castaways
Movies that played at the Tower Theater in Houston, TX from 01/01/70 to 12/31/75. Research is from old microfilms of The Houston Post and The Houston Chronicle. The dates listed are the Wednesday of the opening week.
01/01/70 Goodbye, Mr. Chips
02/25/70 A Nice Girl Like Me
03/04/70 Putney Swope
03/18/70 Airport
08/26/70 Putney Swope
09/02/70 Move
10/14/70 Performance
10/28/70 The Sidelong Glances of a Pigeon Kicker
11/11/70 WUSA
12/23/70 Little Fauss and Big Halsey
02/03/71 No Blade of Grass
02/24/71 Gimme Shelter
03/31/71 The Priest’s Wife
04/14/71 Making It
04/28/71 Waterloo
05/19/71 Dr. Strangelove
05/26/71 Villain
06/09/71 Windsplitter
06/30/71 Carnal Knowledge
10/30/71 The Devils
11/24/71 Dagmar’s Hot Pants, Inc.
12/08/71 Born to Win
12/15/71 Fiddler on the Roof
12/13/72 Man of La Mancha
03/14/73 The Sound of Music
06/27/73 The Friends of Eddie Coyle
07/18/73 Images
08/01/73 The Hireling
08/08/73 Romeo and Juliet
09/05/73 Get to Know Your Rabbit
09/12/73 Harold and Maude
09/26/73 Red Sky at Morning (That Same Summer)
10/03/73 The Naked Ape
10/17/73 The Sterile Cuckoo/Tell Me You Love Me, Junie Moon
10/24/73 Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex/Bananas
10/31/73 Arnold
11/07/73 The New Land
12/19/73 The Seven-Ups
02/13/74 I Am a Dancer
02/20/74 Chariots of the Gods
03/06/74 The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe
03/20/74 Zardoz
04/24/74 Tis Pity, She’s a Whore
05/15/74 Fiddler on the Roof
05/22/74 The Super Cops
06/12/74 Andy Warhol’s L'Amour
06/19/74 The Conversation
07/24/74 Carnal Knowledge
09/11/74 Journey Through the Past
09/25/74 Escape to Nowhere
10/09/74 Love and Anarchy
10/16/74 Christina
10/23/74 Shanks
10/30/74 The Family
11/13/74 Earthquake
06/25/75 The French Connection II
08/27/75 A Touch of Class
09/03/75 Freebie and the Bean
09/10/75 A Clockwork Orange/Deliverance
09/17/75 2001: A Space Odyssey
09/24/75 Doctor Zhivago
10/08/75 Singin' in the Rain
10/15/75 Gone With the Wind
11/12/75 Psychic Killer
11/26/75 Lisztomania
12/17/75 The Greatest Story Ever Told
12/24/75 The Hindenburg
Movies that played at the Tower Theater in Houston, TX from 01/01/64 to 12/31/69. Research is from old microfilms of The Houston Post and The Houston Chronicle. The dates listed are the Wednesday of the opening week.
12/18/63 The Cardinal
02/19/64 Charade
03/18/64 The Ceremony
03/15/64 No, My Darling Daughter
04/01/64 Notorious/Spellbound
04/08/64 The Fall of the Roman Empire
06/24/64 The Long Ships
07/08/64 The Pink Panther
09/23/64 Behold a Pale Horse
10/07/64 Mediterranean Holiday
10/14/64 The Third Secret
10/21/64 Four Days in November
10/28/64 That Man from Rio
11/04/64 The Conjugal Bed
11/11/64 My Fair Lady
09/01/65 Lord Jim
10/13/64 The Great Race
02/16/66 The Agony and the Ecstasy
04/20/66 Juliet of the Spirits
05/11/66 Lord Love a Duck
05/25/66 Stop the World, I Want to Get Off
06/08/66 Ten Little Indians
06/29/66 Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
10/05/66 The Idol
10/26/66 The Bible
04/12/67 The Taming of the Shrew
07/19/67 A Guide for the Married Man
10/18/67 Two Weeks in September
10/25/67 Gone With the Wind
09/25/68 I’ll Never Forget What’s-‘Is-Name
10/02/68 Hot Millions
10/30/68 Finian’s Rainbow
02/05/69 The Shoes of the Fisherman
04/02/69 The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
04/16/69 Mayerling
04/23/69 The Illustrated Man
05/14/69 Before Winter Comes
05/21/69 A Flea in Her Ear
05/28/69 Hard Contract
06/25/69 The Great Bank Robbery
07/23/69 The Gay Deceivers
08/27/69 Can Hieronymus Merkin Ever Forget Mercy Humppe?
10/01/69 Justine
10/15/69 Camille 2000
11/05/69 Take the Money and Run
12/17/69 Goodbye, Mr. Chips
Movies that played at the Tower Theater in Houston, TX from 01/01/60 to 12/31/63. Research is from old microfilms of The Houston Post and The Houston Chronicle. The dates listed are the Wednesday of the opening week.
01/01/60 Porgy and Bess
02/17/60 House of Intrigue
02/24/60 Three Murderesses
03/02/60 The Third Voice
03/16/60 The Rack
03/23/60 The Moon is Blue
03/30/60 The Man with the Golden Arm
04/06/60 The Mating Time
04/13/60 Ulysses
04/20/60 Once More, With Feeling
04/27/60 Ben-Hur
10/26/60 The Alamo
03/29/61 Exodus
05/31/61 The Millionairess
06/07/61 Dentist in the Chair
06/21/61 Carry on Constable
07/12/61 La Dolce Vita
08/30/61 On the Double
09/13/61 Fanny
10/04/61 Man in the Moon
10/11/61 The Bridge
10/25/61 Double Bunk
11/01/61 The King and I
11/22/61 Blood and Roses
11/29/61 The Invasion Quartet
12/06/61 Raintree County
12/20/61 King of Kings
02/21/62 No Love for Johnnie
02/28/62 Two Women
03/07/62 The Hustler
03/14/62 Between Time and Eternity
03/21/62 Purple Noon
04/04/62 West Side Story
07/18/62 Jessica
08/01/62 Only Two Can Play
08/08/62 Mister Roberts
08/15/62 Bus Stop/The Seven Year Itch
08/22/62 That Touch of Mink
09/19/62 The Best of Enemies
09/26/62 Sayonara
10/03/62 I Like Money (Mr. Topaze)
10/10/62 El Cid
10/24/62 Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
10/31/62 Father of the Bride
11/07/62 The Longest Day
02/27/63 Mutiny on the Bounty
05/15/63 Madame
05/22/63 Crooks Anonymous
05/29/63 The Mind Benders
06/05/63 An American in Paris
06/12/63 The Pied Piper of Hamelin
06/19/63 Auntie Mame
06/26/63 Cleopatra
Movies which played at the Gaylynn Terrace from 12/18/68 to 12/31/75.
12/18/68 The Lion in Winter
07/02/69 Funny Girl
10/29/69 True Grit
11/05/69 The Graduate
11/12/69 The Royal Hunt of the Sun
12/24/69 Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice
06/24/70 Darling Lili
08/12/70 The People Next Door
09/16/70 2001: A Space Odyssey
10/21/70 Sunflower
11/11/70 Dorian Gray
12/09/70 Doctor Zhivago
12/16/70 Z
12/23/70 There’s a Girl in My Soup
02/17/71 Ryan’s Daughter
06/23/71 Plaza Suite
09/08/71 The Lion in Winter
09/15/71 The Reincarnate
09/29/71 One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
10/27/71 The African Elephant
11/03/71 Bless the Beasts and Children
11/10/71 The Anonymous Venetian
12/01/71 David Copperfield
12/08/71 Show Boat
12/22/71 Straw Dogs
03/22/71 Mary, Queen of Scots
06/28/72 Frenzy
08/16/72 Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex
11/01/72 Savage Messiah
11/08/72 How the West Was Won
11/15/72 Play It As It Lays
12/20/72 Travels With My Aunt
01/31/73 Sounder
05/16/73 The Man from Deep River
05/23/73 Love and Pain and the Whole Damn Thing
06/06/73 Manson
06/20/73 Kung Fu—The Invisible Fist
08/29/73 Harry in Your Pocket
09/26/73 Jeremy
10/17/73 In the Devil’s Garden
11/14/73 The Gospel Road
11/21/73 Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams
12/19/73 Ash Wednesday
01/30/74 The Pyx
02/13/74 Crazy Joe
02/20/74 Fantastic Planet
02/27/74 Cries and Whispers
03/20/74 A Touch of Class
03/27/74 Mean Streets
04/10/74 The Conversation
05/15/74 The Triple Echo
05/22/74 Paul and Michelle
06/26/74 SPY*S
07/24/74 Uptown Saturday Night
09/04/74 Doctor Zhivago
09/25/74 Juggernaut
10/16/74 Gone With the Wind
11/13/74 Mixed Company
11/20/74 The Taking of Pelham 1-2-3
12/18/74 Journey Back to Oz
12/25/74 Freebie and the Bean
03/26/75 Brannigan
04/16/75 Uptown Saturday Night
04/30/75 Rosebud
05/07/75 Aloha, Bobby and Rose
05/14/75 Dirty Harry/Magnum Force
05/21/75 Rancho Deluxe
05/28/75 Stavisky
06/04/75 A Boy and His Dog
06/11/75 Bug
06/25/75 The Wind and the Lion
(no notes for films until 12/17/75 – I may have inadvertantly forgot to write “T” for Terrace in some of the Gaylynn I or II listings – it’s confusing reading my old library notes taken years ago, especially when the film opened in multiple situations)
12/17/75 One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Movies that played at the Sharpstown/Gaylynn from 05/27/65 to 12/31/75. Research is from microfilms of The Houston Post and The Houston Chronicle. Dates given are the Wednesday of the opening week.
05/26/65 Mirage
06/09/65 The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders
(renamed Gaylynn week of 6/16/65)
06/23/65 Cinderella
06/30/65 Harlow
08/04/65 In Harm’s Way
08/18/65 The Greatest Story Ever Told
09/29/65 Cat Ballou
11/10/65 What’s New, Pussycat?
11/17/65 Von Ryan’s Express
11/24/65 Old Yeller
12/08/65 Lord Jim
12/22/65 My Fair Lady (pop prices)
02/02/66 Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines (pop prices)
03/30/66 Othello
04/06/66 Viva, Maria!
05/04/66 The King and I
05/25/66 The Ten Commandments
06/29/66 Khartoum
08/24/66 The Blue Max
11/16/66 Is Paris Burning?
01/25/67 The Sand Pebbles
07/12/67 El Dorado
08/23/67 Barefoot in the Park
10/11/67 The Happiest Millionaire
01/24/68 Custer of the West
02/28/68 Smashing Time
03/13/68 Half a Sixpence
04/10/68 The Scalphunters
05/29/68 The Graduate
07/17/68 Around the World in 80 Days
08/28/68 The Producers
09/25/68 Bandolero
10/02/68 Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner
10/09/68 Doctor Faustus
10/16/68 The Fox
10/23/68 Funny Girl
(Second theater added – named Gaylynn Terrace – see following comment)
07/02/69 Krakatoa, East of Java
08/13/69 The Sound of Music
09/17/69 Cleopatra
10/01/69 Gone With the Wind
10/08/69 Camelot
10/22/69 Doctor Zhivago
10/29/69 Paint Your Wagon
03/11/70 Patton
10/14/70 Tora! Tora! Tora!
02/24/71 Wuthering Heights
04/07/71 Valdez is Coming
04/28/71 The Mephisto Waltz
05/26/71 When Eight Bells Toll
06/09/71 A Gunfight
06/25/71 Big Jake
08/04/71 Shootout
08/11/71 Fortune and Men’s Eyes
08/25/71 Walkabout
09/15/71 Death in Venice
10/06/71 The Touch
10/27/71 The Organization
11/10/71 The Greatest Story Ever Told
11/17/71 Joe Hill
12/08/71 San Francisco
12/15/71 Tora! Tora! Tora!
12/22/71 The Gang That Couldn’t Shoot Straight
01/19/72 Cactus in the Snow
02/09/72 J. W. Coop
02/23/72 Sunday, Bloody Sunday
03/08/72 Nicholas and Alexandra
06/28/72 The Last of the Red Hot Lovers
08/02/72 Slaughterhouse-Five
11/01/72 Skyjacked/Kansas City Bomber
11/08/72 Thoroughly Modern Millie
11/29/72 Song of Norway
12/20/72 Brother of the Wind
01/17/73 Gone With the Wind
01/24/73 The Mechanic
02/07/73 Across 110th Street
02/21/73 Avanti
03/07/73 Brian’s Song
03/14/73 Lolly Madonna XXX
03/21/73 The Long Goodbye
04/04/73 The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
04/18/73 Brother Sun, Sister Moon
06/13/73 Trader Horn
06/20/73 Scarecrow
06/27/73 Live and Let Die
08/01/73 Santee
08/15/73 State of Siege
09/12/73 So Sad About Gloria
09/19/73 Heavy Traffic
10/17/73 Nicholas and Alexandra
10/31/73 Electric Glide in Blue
11/14/73 Cops and Robbers
11/21/73 Tales That Witness Madness
11/28/73 Pulp
12/19/73 Sleeper
01/30/74 The Serpent (Night Flight to Moscow)
02/13/74 Under Milkwood
02/20/74 Quadroon
03/06/74 Fiddler on the Roof
03/13/74 Lovin' Molly
04/10/74 The Spikes Gang
05/08/74 Billy Two Hats
05/15/74 Sleeper/Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex
05/22/74 Thunderbolt and Lightfoot
07/17/74 Mr. Majestyk
08/14/74 Bank Shot
08/21/74 2001: A Space Odyssey
10/16/74 Harry and Tonto
(Theater twinned or second theater added – now named Gaylynn I and Gaylynn II – not sure which auditorium from here as films would switch around)
12/18/74 The Man With the Golden Gun
01/01/75 The Night Porter
02/12/75 Lenny
02/19/75 The Strongest Man in the World
03/19/75 The Prisoner of Second Avenue
05/21/75 Shark’s Treasure
06/04/75 The Land That Time Forgot
06/11/75 The Return of the Pink Panther
06/18/75 Race With the Devil
07/02/75 The Wilby Conspiracy
07/09/75 Framed
07/16/75 White Line Fever
07/23/75 Tidal Wave
07/30/75 Take a Hard Ride
08/06/75 The Devil’s Rain
08/13/75 The Towering Inferno
09/03/75 Smile
09/10/75 Funny Girl
09/24/75 Undercovers Hero
10/08/75 Hard Times
10/15/75 Let’s Do it Again
11/05/75 Blue Water, White Death
11/12/75 The Ultimate Warrior
11/19/75 The Night Caller
11/19/75 Seven Alone
12/03/75 Welcome to My Nightmare
12/10/75 Double Agent ‘73
12/17/75 Superbug
12/17/75 Hard Heads
12/24/75 Mysteries from Beyond Earth
12/24/75 Dog Day Afternoon
I have been looking through issues of the Kittanning Simpson Leader-Times on www.newspaperachive.com and the last ad I have been able to find for the Columbia Theater is for the week of March 24, 1965, when the theater was showing a double bill of “Baby, the Rain Must Fall” and “Send Me No Flowers.”
http://newspaperarchive.com/kittanning-simpson-leader-times/1975-04-24/page-10?tag=liberty+theatre&rtserp=tags/?pep=liberty-theatre&pr=30&psb=dateasc&pc=15031&psi=77&pci=7&ndt=by&py=1975&pey=1975
Not sure if this link works as it’s from Newspaper Archives.com. The article is from the Kittanning Simpson-Leader edition of April 24, 1975 (page 10)about the Liberty Theater. A wonderful article about John D. Nagy, who owned and operated it, and his lifelong love of movies and career in the theater industry.
Browsing through the movie ads in the Indiana Evening Gazette for 1959, the only theater listed for Homer City is called the Homer Theater (not the Empire), so it must have been called that at one time. I would guess that Homer City was too small to have two theaters, so they must be one and the same. The Indiana area in those days also had 2 drive-ins, the Super 422 and the Palace Gardens.
1972-1975 Films at Loew’s Grand – Atlanta (Dates are the opening week’s Wednesday)(Research from microfilms of The Atlanta Constitution). 12/22/71 Soul Soldier 01/12/72 Hot Pants Holiday 01/19/72 My Old Man’s Place 01/26/72 J. W. Coop 02/09/72 Cry Uncle 02/23/72 Mark of the Devil 03/22/72 The Love Cult 03/29/72 The Ten Commandments 04/19/72 Georgia, Georgia 05/03/72 Buck and the Preacher 05/31/72 The Legend of “Black” Charley 07/19/72 Night of the Lepus 08/02/72 Blacula 08/30/72 Melinda 10/18/72 The Swinging Stewardesses 11/01/72 The Dirtiest Girl I Ever Met 11/08/72 Trouble Man 12/20/72 Black Gunn 01/24/73 Slaughter/Blacula 01/31/73 Last House on the Left 02/21/73 Shaft/Shaft’s Big Score 02/28/73 Wattstax 04/18/73 The Mack 05/30/73 Charley One-Eye 06/13/73 The Soul of “Black” Charley 06/27/73 Scream, Blacula, Scream 08/01/73 Cleopatra Jones 09/26/73 Kung Fu—The Invisible Fist/Duel of the Iron Fist 10/10/73 The Spook Who Sat by the Door 11/07/73 Coffy/The Mack 12/05/73 The Karate Killer 12/19/73 Hell Up in Harlem 01/23/74 Bamboo Gods and Iron Men 02/06/74 Black Belt Jones 03/13/74 The Dragon’s Vengeance 03/20/74 Street Gangs of Hong Kong 03/27/74 Deranged 04/03/74 Three Tough Guys 04/24/74 Thomasine and Bushrod 05/15/74 Mark of the Devil, Part II 05/29/74 Africa Uncensored 06/12/74 The Take 06/19/74 The Mandarin Magician 06/26/74 The Exorcist 07/24/74 The Education of Sonny Carson 08/14/74 Black Samson 09/11/74 Sting of the Dragon Masters/Attack of the Kung Fu Girls 09/25/74 Lady Sings the Blues/Education of Sonny Carson 10/02/74 Zatoichi—The Blind Swordsman 10/16/74 The House on Skull Mountain 11/06/74 The Street Fighter 11/20/74 The Black Dragon 12/11/74 The Chinese Mechanic/The Mandarin Magician 12/18/74 Boss Nigger 01/22/75 Serpico/Death Wish 01/29/75 The Devil’s Nightmare/In the Devil’s Garden 02/12/75 Bogard 02/26/75 The Beast Must Die/Seizure 03/05/75 Report to the Commissioner 03/19/75 Force Four 04/09/75 Enter the Dragon/Red Sun 04/16/75 Nigger Lover 04/30/75 The Candy Tangerine Man 05/21/75 Pop Goes the Weasel 06/04/75 Bug 06/11/75 Lepke 06/25/75 Bruce Lee and I 07/02/75 Superdude 07/23/75 Get Nigger Rich on # 666 07/30/75 Ali, the Man…Ali, the Fighter 08/13/75 Cooley High 10/15/75 Let’s Do It Again 12/24/75 Aaron Loves Angela (My research stops at the end of 1975 – if anyone can cover the remaining films, it would be nice. A few of these “Blaxploitation” titles were a little offensive, using a word I wouldn’t use, but I copied them as they were.)
1967-1971 Films at Loew’s Grand – Atlanta (Dates are the opening week’s Wednesday)(Research from microfilms of The Atlanta Constitution). 12/21/66 The Bible 05/24/67 The Way West 06/14/67 Gunn 06/28/67 Barefoot in the Park 08/02/67 Up the Down Staircase 08/30/67 The Bobo 09/13/67 Darling/Dear John 09/27/67 Ski on the Wild Side 10/04/67 Gone With the Wind 07/10/68 Doctor Dolittle 09/18/68 Helga 10/16/68 Duffy 11/06/68 Star! 02/05/69 The Lion in Winter 06/25/69 The Wild Bunch 07/23/69 The April Fools 08/20/69 Ben-Hur 09/17/69 Chastity 10/01/69 The Oblong Box 10/15/69 Change of Mind 10/29/69 Two Gentlemen Sharing 11/12/69 Sweden, Heaven, and Hell 11/19/69 Angel, Angel…Down We Go 12/03/69 The Comic 12/10/69 True Grit/El Dorado 12/17/69 Hello, Dolly! 04/22/70 The Liberation of L. B. Jones 05/20/70 A Man Called Horse 06/17/70 The Grasshopper 07/08/70 Beyond the Valley of the Dolls 08/12/70 Chisum 09/02/70 Count Yorga, Vampire 09/16/70 The Man from C.O.T.T.O.N. (Purlie Victorious) 09/23/70 King 09/30/70 I Am Curious (Yellow) 10/07/70 Mondo Cane I/Mondo Cane II 10/14/70 Threesome 11/04/70 a.k.a. Cassius Clay 11/11/70 Trog/Taste the Blood of Dracula 11/18/70 WUSA 12/23/70 There Was a Crooked Man… 01/13/71 The Great White Hope 02/10/71 Doctors' Wives 03/10/71 A Man Called Sledge 03/24/71 The Great White Hope 04/07/71 Brother John 04/28/71 Lawrence of Arabia 05/12/71 Watermelon Man/The Liberation of L. B. Jones 05/19/71 Daddy, Darling 05/26/71 The Abominable Dr. Phibes 06/09/71 Cat O' Nine Tails 06/23/71 Big Jake 07/22/71 The Seven Minutes 08/04/71 The Omega Man 09/08/71 Riot/Up Tight 09/15/71 The Red Tent 09/22/71 Let’s Scare Jessica to Death 09/29/71 Black Jesus 10/06/71 The Great White Hope/100 Rifles 10/13/71 High Yellow 10/27/71 Planet of the Apes/Beneath the Planet of Apes 11/03/71 Skin Game 11/24/71 Man in the Wilderness 12/22/71 Soul Soldier
1963-1966 Films at Loew’s Grand – Atlanta (Dates are the opening week’s Wednesday)(Research from microfilms of The Atlanta Constitution). 12/26/62 Billy Rose’s Jumbo 01/23/63 Who’s Got the Action? 02/06/63 The Password is Courage 02/13/63 Diamond Head 03/06/63 Days of Wine and Roses 03/27/63 The Courtship of Eddie’s Father 04/10/63 The Birds 05/08/63 The Ugly American 05/15/63 Come Fly With Me 05/29/63 Hud 06/19/63 Flipper 07/03/63 PT 109 07/17/63 Donovan’s Reef 07/31/63 A Gathering of Eagles 08/14/63 Captain Sindbad 08/28/63 The Haunting 09/11/63 Wall of Noise 09/18/63 Show Boat/The Great Caruso 09/25/63 The VIPs 11/06/63 Twilight of Honor 11/20/63 The Wheeler Dealers 12/11/63 Common Law Wife 12/18/63 Rose Marie/Julius Caesar 12/25/63 The Prize 01/22/64 Children of the Damned 02/05/64 Any Number Can Win 02/12/64 Love with the Proper Stranger 03/11/64 Mail Order Bride 03/18/64 Shock Treatment 03/25/64 The Molesters 04/08/64 Don’t Give Up the Ship/Rock-A-Bye Baby 04/15/64 Night Must Fall 04/29/64 Tamahine 05/13/64 The Thin Red Line 05/27/64 Lady in a Cage 06/10/64 Viva Las Vegas 07/08/64 Robin and the Seven Hoods 08/05/64 The New Interns 08/19/64 A House is Not a Home 09/02/64 Of Human Bondage 09/30/64 The Visit 10/14/64 Fate is the Hunter 10/28/64 The Young Lovers 11/11/64 The Outrage 12/02/64 Guns at Batasi 12/09/64 Four Days in November 12/16/64 Gold for the Caesars 12/23/64 Kiss Me, Stupid 01/20/65 Quick, Before It Melts 01/27/65 Get Yourself a College Girl 02/10/65 36 Hours 03/03/65 Signpost to Murder 03/10/65 Psycho 03/31/65 John Goldfarb, Please Come Home 04/14/65 Girl Happy 05/05/65 Masquerade 05/12/65 Young Cassidy 05/19/65 Dr. No/From Russia, With Love 06/23/65 The Yellow Rolls-Royce 07/28/65 Clarence, the Cross-Eyed Lion 08/04/65 Operation Crossbow 08/25/65 Help! 09/15/65 Billie 09/22/65 Never on Sunday/Topkapi 09/29/65 Paris Secret 10/06/65 The Reward 10/13/65 The Hallelujah Trail 11/03/65 The Nanny 11/17/65 King Rat 12/01/65 Master of Horror/Master of Terror 12/08/65 Grand Hotel/Dinner at 8 12/22/65 Do Not Disturb 01/12/66 Tom Jones/Irma La Douce 01/26/66 The Heroes of Telemark 02/09/66 Lord Love a Duck 02/23/66 A Patch of Blue 03/30/66 Doctor Zhivago 12/21/66 The Bible
1960-1962 Films at Loew’s Grand – Atlanta (Dates are the opening week’s Wednesday)(Research from microfilms of The Atlanta Constitution). 12/30/59 Solomon and Sheba 01/27/60 The Last Angry Man 02/03/60 Never So Few 02/17/60 Suddenly, Last Summer 03/16/60 Who Was that Lady? 04/06/60 Home From the Hill 04/20/60 The Unforgiven 05/04/60 Please Don’t Eat the Daisies 05/25/60 The Gallant Hours 06/08/60 The Giant of Marathon 06/15/60 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 06/22/60 Macumba Love 06/29/60 Bells are Ringing 07/20/60 Pollyanna 08/10/60 Elmer Gantry 08/31/60 The Time Machine 09/14/60 Pay or Die 09/21/60 The Angel Wore Red 09/28/60 Hell to Eternity 10/05/60 Night Fighters 10/12/60 The Magnificent Seven 10/26/60 Let No Man Write My Epitaph 11/02/60 Ruby 11/09/60 Where the Hot Wind Blows 11/16/60 Butterfield 8 12/14/60 The Facts of Life 12/28/60 Where the Boys Are 01/18/61 Village of the Damned 01/25/61 A Fever in the Blood 02/01/61 The Misfits 02/22/61 The Great Imposter 03/01/61 Go Naked in the World 03/08/61 Gone With the Wind 04/26/61 The Alamo 05/17/61 Cimarron 05/24/61 The Young Savages 06/07/61 Atlantis, the Lost Continent 06/14/61 The Last Sunset 06/28/61 Morgan the Pirate 07/05/61 Two Rode Together 07/12/61 The Naked Edge 07/26/61 Tammy Tell Me True 08/09/61 The Honeymoon Machine 08/16/61 The Thief of Bagdad 08/23/61 Ada 09/06/61 Goodbye Again 09/13/61 The Young Doctors 09/20/61 A Thunder of Drums 09/27/61 Paris Holiday 10/04/61 Claudelle Inglish 10/11/61 Bridge to the Sun 10/18/61 Back Street 11/08/61 Town Without Pity 11/22/61 Bachelor in Paradise 12/06/61 X-15 12/20/61 The Wonders of Aladdin 12/27/61 Pocketful of Miracles 01/10/62 Knights of the Round Table/Ivanhoe 01/17/62 The Happy Thieves 01/24/62 Colossus of Rhodes 01/31/62 One, Two, Three 02/14/62 The 4 Horsemen of the Apocalypse 02/28/62 Sergeants 3 03/21/62 Sweet Bird of Youth 04/11/62 The Outsider 04/18/62 Follow That Dream 05/02/62 The Horizontal Lieutenant 05/09/62 Judgement at Nuremberg 05/23/62 All Fall Down 05/30/62 Ride the High Country 06/06/62 Lonely are the Brave 06/13/62 The Road to Hong Kong 06/27/62 The Tartars 07/04/62 Boys' Night Out 07/18/62 Lolita 08/08/62 Birdman of Alcatraz 08/29/62 The Spiral Road 09/05/62 Two Weeks in Another Town 09/12/62 7 Brides for 7 Brothers/Father of the Bride 09/19/62 Damon and Pythias 09/26/62 No Man is an Island 10/03/62 I Thank a Fool 10/10/62 A Very Private Affair 10/17/62 The Chapman Report 11/07/62 The Sky Above, The Mud Below 11/14/62 Period of Adjustment 12/05/62 Gay Purr-ee 12/12/62 Escape from East Berlin 12/19/62 The Scarface Mob 12/26/62 Billy Rose’s Jumbo
The building housing the Victor Theater and a shoe store was purchased by Lawrence Savings and Trust in mid-July 1962 to be razed for an expansion to the bank, parking lot and drive-thru window. The theater appears to have closed the weekend on July 14-15, 1962 with the final booking of “Hunchback of Notre Dame”, “The Big Circus”, and “The Plunderers”.
The Penn Theater’s last week was April 24-30, 1968. The final film to play there was “In the Heat of the Night,” in its return to theaters after winning the Academy Award for Best Picture of 1967.
In its reincarnation as the Cinema, its grand opening was Friday, November 22, 1968. The opening feature was the New Castle premiere of 2001: A Space Odyssey.
The last film to play at the Butler Theater was “The Yellow Rolls-Royce” during the week of July 14-20, 1965.
I think that RKO-Stanley Warner Theaters opened it, not Loew’s.
This Google street view and map are wrong – they both show a portion of Brownsville Road in South Park (Allegheny County)south of Pittsburgh. Brownsville, PA is in Fayette County.
Sorry for the typo – it’s the Sherkel, not the Sheckel Theater in Houtzdale.
The Ritz was twinned in 1971. It closed the week of May 19-26, 1971 for the renovations, and the two smaller theaters opened separately. The Ritz I opened on July 14, 1971 with “Love Story” and the Ritz II on August 7, 1971 with “Ryan’s Daughter.”
Although it probably was still standing and was used for special events, the Lyric Theater doesn’t show any films advertised for the rest of 1967 past “Warning Shot” the week of February 22, 1967.
Other area theaters were the Rex in Curwensville, the Sheckel in Houtzdale, the Super 322 Drive-In between Clearfield and Philipsburg, and of course, the Rowland in Philipsburg, PA.
Movies that played at the Delman Theater in Houston, TX from 01/01/73 to 12/31/75. Research is from old microfilms of The Houston Post and The Houston Chronicle. The Dates given are the Wednesday of the opening week. 01/01/73 1776 03/14/73 Billy Jack 03/28/73 Lost Horizon 06/06/73 Paper Moon 10/31/73 The Way We Were 12/19/73 Papillon 03/13/74 The Last Detail 05/01/74 Badlands 07/10/74 For Pete’s Sake 09/11/74 Harrad Summer 10/09/74 The Gambler 11/20/74 The Klansman 12/18/74 The Phantom of the Paradise 01/22/75 Malizia 02/12/75 The Stepford Wives 04/09/75 Harry and Tonto 04/23/75 Hearts and Minds 05/14/75 The Savage is Loose 05/21/75 Mandingo 09/17/75 The Man in the Glass Booth 10/08/75 Hard Times 11/12/75 Mahogany 12/17/75 The Story of O (I may have only scribbled down first-run films for this last batch, omitting second runs, etc., because I don’t think “Mandingo” stayed at the Delman for 4 months! But these are all my notes.)
Movies that played at the Delman Theater in Houston, TX from 01/01/67 to 12/31/72. Research is from old microfilms of The Houston Post and The Houston Chronicle. The Dates given are the Wednesday of the opening week. 01/01/67 Gambit 02/15/67 Georgy Girl 05/03/67 Blow-Up 06/28/67 Woman Times Seven 08/09/67 The Jokers 09/13/67 Our Man Flint/In Like Flint 09/27/67 Accident 10/04/67 Becket 10/18/67 The Birds, the Bees, and the Italians 11/15/67 The Sound of Music (pop prices) 12/13/67 Privilege 12/20/67 Valley of the Dolls 04/10/68 Closely Watched Trains 05/01/68 Elvira Madigan 07/17/68 How Sweet It Is! 09/04/68 The Secret Life of an American Wife 10/16/68 The Split 11/06/68 Penelope 11/13/68 Benjamin 11/27/68 Barefoot in the Park/The Odd Couple 12/18/68 Romeo and Juliet 03/26/69 The Love Bug 06/25/69 Goodbye, Columbus 09/24/69 Easy Rider
12/17/69 (Closed for refurbishing – purchased by Loew’s – renamed Loew’s Delman)
12/24/69 The Secret of Santa Vittoria 01/28/70 Gaily, Gaily 02/25/70 Z 04/22/70 The Kremlin Letter 04/29/70 Women in Love 05/27/70 Fellini’s Satyricon 06/24/70 The Landlord 07/15/70 The Strawberry Statement 08/12/70 They Call Me Mister Tibbs 09/02/70 The Revolutionary 09/16/70 The Angel Levine 09/23/70 Threesome 10/21/70 The Baby Maker 11/18/70 The Twelve Chairs 12/23/70 The Owl and the Pussycat 05/26/71 Lawrence of Arabia 06/16/71 Billy Jack 08/18/71 The Anderson Tapes 09/29/71 Drive, He Said 10/13/71 See No Evil 11/03/71 The French Connection 12/22/71 $ (Dollars) 02/16/72 The Last Picture Show 07/26/72 Butterflies are Free 10/25/72 The Deadly Trap 11/08/72 Dirty Little Billy 12/20/72 1776
Movies that played at the Delman Theater in Houston, TX from 01/01/63 to 12/31/66. Research is from old microfilms of The Houston Post and The Houston Chronicle. The Dates given are the Wednesday of the opening week. 01/01/63 In Search of the Castaways 02/06/63 Son of Flubber 04/10/63 The Miracle of the White Stallions 05/22/63 Sundays and Cybele 05/29/63 The Wrong Arm of the Law 06/12/63 Savage Sam/Yellowstone Cubs 07/17/63 Summer Magic 09/04/63 The Mouse on the Moon 09/18/63 Of Love and Desire/Marilyn 09/25/63 Oklahoma/The King and I 10/02/63 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea 10/30/63 Fantasia 11/20/63 The Incredible Journey 12/25/63 The Sword in the Stone 02/05/64 Lilies of the Field 02/19/64 The Misadventures of Merlin Jones 03/25/64 A Tiger Walks 05/06/64 South Pacific 05/27/64 The Bridge on the River Kwai 06/17/64 The Three Lives of Thomasina 07/08/64 The Moon-Spinners 08/26/64 Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow 10/07/64 Looking for Love/Kill or Cure 10/14/64 The Incredible Journey/20,000 Leagues Under the Sea 10/21/64 Mary Poppins 02/24/65 Those Calloways 03/31/65 World Without Sun 04/07/65 Seance on a Wet Afternoon/Dr. Strangelove 04/28/65 Girl with Green Eyes/That Man from Rio 05/05/65 Lawrence of Arabia 05/12/65 Harlow (Electronovision) 05/19/65 The Hustler 06/09/65 Marriage, Italian Style/Two Women 06/16/65 Tom Jones 06/23/65 Von Ryan’s Express 09/01/65 Casanova ‘70 09/29/65 Laurel & Hardy’s Laughing 20s 10/06/65 The Secret of My Success 10/27/65 Shenandoah/Charade 11/03/65 Carousel/Flower Drum Song 11/10/65 The Collector/Bambole 11/17/65 The Sword in the Stone/The Incredible Mr. Limpet 12/01/65 The Railroad Man 12/08/65 The Longest Day 12/22/65 The 10th Victim 01/26/66 Darling/Love with the Proper Stranger 02/02/66 Darling 03/09/66 An Evening with Batman and Robin 03/23/66 The Leather Boys 04/06/66 The Trouble with Angels 05/25/66 Born Free/The Golden Horseshoe Revue 06/29/66 The Guns of Navarone/Born Free 07/20/66 Dear John 09/14/66 The Sleeping Car Murder 09/28/66 Morgan 10/19/66 Gigi 11/09/66 The Wrong Box 12/21/66 Gambit
Movies that played at the Delman Theater in Houston, TX from 01/01/60 to 12/31/62. Research is from old microfilms of The Houston Post and The Houston Chronicle. The Dates given are the Wednesday of the opening week. 01/01/60 John Paul Jones 01/13/60 A Star is Born 01/20/60 Edge of Eternity/Yesterday’s Enemy 01/27/60 It Happened in Rome/Too Many Crooks 02/10/60 A Touch of Larceny 02/24/60 The Diary of Anne Frank 03/09/60 Operation Petticoat 05/11/60 Wild Strawberries 05/25/60 The Lovers 06/22/60 Around the World in 80 Days 07/20/60 Company of Hearts 08/03/60 The Greatest Show on Earth 08/17/60 Sons and Lovers 09/07/60 The Day they Robbed the Bank of England/Platinum High School 09/14/60 The Magician 10/05/60 The Jungle Cat 11/02/60 The 400 Blows 11/09/60 The Captain’s Table 12/21/60 Spartacus 03/15/61 The Virgin Spring 04/05/61 The Entertainer 05/24/61 Tunes of Glory 06/21/61 The League of Gentlemen 06/28/61 Never Take Candy from a Stranger/Beyond All Limits 07/05/61 Saturday Night and Sunday Morning 07/19/61 A Raisin in the Sun 08/02/61 A Cold Wind in August 08/16/61 The Truth 09/20/61 Secrets of Women 09/27/61 Picnic/The Caine Mutiny 10/04/61 Hiroshima, My Love 10/11/61 Pure Hell at St. Trinian’s 10/18/61 Season of Passion 10/25/61 The Mark 11/15/61 The Man Who Wagged His Tail 11/22/61 Two-Way Stretch 12/06/61 Rocco and His Brothers 12/13/61 Never on Sunday/Room at the Top 12/20/61 Mysterious Island 12/27/61 The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone 01/17/62 Call Me Genius 01/24/62 The Devil’s Eye 02/07/62 Leda 02/14/62 The Happy Thieves 02/21/62 Pinocchio 04/04/62 Splendor in the Grass/Fanny 04/11/62 Moon Pilot 05/16/62 Through a Glass Darkly 05/30/62 Pollyanna 06/06/62 Big Red 07/11/62 Oklahoma 08/01/62 Jack, the Giant Killer 08/08/62 Harold Lloyd’s World of Comedy/La Belle Americaine 08/22/62 Never Let Go/It Happened in Broad Daylight 08/29/62 A Taste of Honey 09/19/62 Wild Strawberries/Lesson in Love 09/26/62 Secrets of Women/The Virgin Spring 10/03/62 Waltz of the Toreadors/Damn Yankees 10/10/62 Almost Angels/Lady and the Tramp 11/14/62 Phaedra 12/05/62 Operation Snatch/Behind the Great Wall 12/12/62 The Magnificent Seven/The Pajama Game 12/19/62 In Search of the Castaways
Movies that played at the Tower Theater in Houston, TX from 01/01/70 to 12/31/75. Research is from old microfilms of The Houston Post and The Houston Chronicle. The dates listed are the Wednesday of the opening week. 01/01/70 Goodbye, Mr. Chips 02/25/70 A Nice Girl Like Me 03/04/70 Putney Swope 03/18/70 Airport 08/26/70 Putney Swope 09/02/70 Move 10/14/70 Performance 10/28/70 The Sidelong Glances of a Pigeon Kicker 11/11/70 WUSA 12/23/70 Little Fauss and Big Halsey 02/03/71 No Blade of Grass 02/24/71 Gimme Shelter 03/31/71 The Priest’s Wife 04/14/71 Making It 04/28/71 Waterloo 05/19/71 Dr. Strangelove 05/26/71 Villain 06/09/71 Windsplitter 06/30/71 Carnal Knowledge 10/30/71 The Devils 11/24/71 Dagmar’s Hot Pants, Inc. 12/08/71 Born to Win 12/15/71 Fiddler on the Roof 12/13/72 Man of La Mancha 03/14/73 The Sound of Music 06/27/73 The Friends of Eddie Coyle 07/18/73 Images 08/01/73 The Hireling 08/08/73 Romeo and Juliet 09/05/73 Get to Know Your Rabbit 09/12/73 Harold and Maude 09/26/73 Red Sky at Morning (That Same Summer) 10/03/73 The Naked Ape 10/17/73 The Sterile Cuckoo/Tell Me You Love Me, Junie Moon 10/24/73 Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex/Bananas 10/31/73 Arnold 11/07/73 The New Land 12/19/73 The Seven-Ups 02/13/74 I Am a Dancer 02/20/74 Chariots of the Gods 03/06/74 The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe 03/20/74 Zardoz 04/24/74 Tis Pity, She’s a Whore 05/15/74 Fiddler on the Roof 05/22/74 The Super Cops 06/12/74 Andy Warhol’s L'Amour 06/19/74 The Conversation 07/24/74 Carnal Knowledge 09/11/74 Journey Through the Past 09/25/74 Escape to Nowhere 10/09/74 Love and Anarchy 10/16/74 Christina 10/23/74 Shanks 10/30/74 The Family 11/13/74 Earthquake 06/25/75 The French Connection II 08/27/75 A Touch of Class 09/03/75 Freebie and the Bean 09/10/75 A Clockwork Orange/Deliverance 09/17/75 2001: A Space Odyssey 09/24/75 Doctor Zhivago 10/08/75 Singin' in the Rain 10/15/75 Gone With the Wind 11/12/75 Psychic Killer 11/26/75 Lisztomania 12/17/75 The Greatest Story Ever Told 12/24/75 The Hindenburg
Movies that played at the Tower Theater in Houston, TX from 01/01/64 to 12/31/69. Research is from old microfilms of The Houston Post and The Houston Chronicle. The dates listed are the Wednesday of the opening week. 12/18/63 The Cardinal 02/19/64 Charade 03/18/64 The Ceremony 03/15/64 No, My Darling Daughter 04/01/64 Notorious/Spellbound 04/08/64 The Fall of the Roman Empire 06/24/64 The Long Ships 07/08/64 The Pink Panther 09/23/64 Behold a Pale Horse 10/07/64 Mediterranean Holiday 10/14/64 The Third Secret 10/21/64 Four Days in November 10/28/64 That Man from Rio 11/04/64 The Conjugal Bed 11/11/64 My Fair Lady 09/01/65 Lord Jim 10/13/64 The Great Race 02/16/66 The Agony and the Ecstasy 04/20/66 Juliet of the Spirits 05/11/66 Lord Love a Duck 05/25/66 Stop the World, I Want to Get Off 06/08/66 Ten Little Indians 06/29/66 Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? 10/05/66 The Idol 10/26/66 The Bible 04/12/67 The Taming of the Shrew 07/19/67 A Guide for the Married Man 10/18/67 Two Weeks in September 10/25/67 Gone With the Wind 09/25/68 I’ll Never Forget What’s-‘Is-Name 10/02/68 Hot Millions 10/30/68 Finian’s Rainbow 02/05/69 The Shoes of the Fisherman 04/02/69 The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie 04/16/69 Mayerling 04/23/69 The Illustrated Man 05/14/69 Before Winter Comes 05/21/69 A Flea in Her Ear 05/28/69 Hard Contract 06/25/69 The Great Bank Robbery 07/23/69 The Gay Deceivers 08/27/69 Can Hieronymus Merkin Ever Forget Mercy Humppe? 10/01/69 Justine 10/15/69 Camille 2000 11/05/69 Take the Money and Run 12/17/69 Goodbye, Mr. Chips
Movies that played at the Tower Theater in Houston, TX from 01/01/60 to 12/31/63. Research is from old microfilms of The Houston Post and The Houston Chronicle. The dates listed are the Wednesday of the opening week. 01/01/60 Porgy and Bess 02/17/60 House of Intrigue 02/24/60 Three Murderesses 03/02/60 The Third Voice 03/16/60 The Rack 03/23/60 The Moon is Blue 03/30/60 The Man with the Golden Arm 04/06/60 The Mating Time 04/13/60 Ulysses 04/20/60 Once More, With Feeling 04/27/60 Ben-Hur 10/26/60 The Alamo 03/29/61 Exodus 05/31/61 The Millionairess 06/07/61 Dentist in the Chair 06/21/61 Carry on Constable 07/12/61 La Dolce Vita 08/30/61 On the Double 09/13/61 Fanny 10/04/61 Man in the Moon 10/11/61 The Bridge 10/25/61 Double Bunk 11/01/61 The King and I 11/22/61 Blood and Roses 11/29/61 The Invasion Quartet 12/06/61 Raintree County 12/20/61 King of Kings 02/21/62 No Love for Johnnie 02/28/62 Two Women 03/07/62 The Hustler 03/14/62 Between Time and Eternity 03/21/62 Purple Noon 04/04/62 West Side Story 07/18/62 Jessica 08/01/62 Only Two Can Play 08/08/62 Mister Roberts 08/15/62 Bus Stop/The Seven Year Itch 08/22/62 That Touch of Mink 09/19/62 The Best of Enemies 09/26/62 Sayonara 10/03/62 I Like Money (Mr. Topaze) 10/10/62 El Cid 10/24/62 Seven Brides for Seven Brothers 10/31/62 Father of the Bride 11/07/62 The Longest Day 02/27/63 Mutiny on the Bounty 05/15/63 Madame 05/22/63 Crooks Anonymous 05/29/63 The Mind Benders 06/05/63 An American in Paris 06/12/63 The Pied Piper of Hamelin 06/19/63 Auntie Mame 06/26/63 Cleopatra
Movies which played at the Gaylynn Terrace from 12/18/68 to 12/31/75. 12/18/68 The Lion in Winter 07/02/69 Funny Girl 10/29/69 True Grit 11/05/69 The Graduate 11/12/69 The Royal Hunt of the Sun 12/24/69 Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice 06/24/70 Darling Lili 08/12/70 The People Next Door 09/16/70 2001: A Space Odyssey 10/21/70 Sunflower 11/11/70 Dorian Gray 12/09/70 Doctor Zhivago 12/16/70 Z 12/23/70 There’s a Girl in My Soup 02/17/71 Ryan’s Daughter 06/23/71 Plaza Suite 09/08/71 The Lion in Winter 09/15/71 The Reincarnate 09/29/71 One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich 10/27/71 The African Elephant 11/03/71 Bless the Beasts and Children 11/10/71 The Anonymous Venetian 12/01/71 David Copperfield 12/08/71 Show Boat 12/22/71 Straw Dogs 03/22/71 Mary, Queen of Scots 06/28/72 Frenzy 08/16/72 Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex 11/01/72 Savage Messiah 11/08/72 How the West Was Won 11/15/72 Play It As It Lays 12/20/72 Travels With My Aunt 01/31/73 Sounder 05/16/73 The Man from Deep River 05/23/73 Love and Pain and the Whole Damn Thing 06/06/73 Manson 06/20/73 Kung Fu—The Invisible Fist 08/29/73 Harry in Your Pocket 09/26/73 Jeremy 10/17/73 In the Devil’s Garden 11/14/73 The Gospel Road 11/21/73 Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams 12/19/73 Ash Wednesday 01/30/74 The Pyx 02/13/74 Crazy Joe 02/20/74 Fantastic Planet 02/27/74 Cries and Whispers 03/20/74 A Touch of Class 03/27/74 Mean Streets 04/10/74 The Conversation 05/15/74 The Triple Echo 05/22/74 Paul and Michelle 06/26/74 SPY*S 07/24/74 Uptown Saturday Night 09/04/74 Doctor Zhivago 09/25/74 Juggernaut 10/16/74 Gone With the Wind 11/13/74 Mixed Company 11/20/74 The Taking of Pelham 1-2-3 12/18/74 Journey Back to Oz 12/25/74 Freebie and the Bean 03/26/75 Brannigan 04/16/75 Uptown Saturday Night 04/30/75 Rosebud 05/07/75 Aloha, Bobby and Rose 05/14/75 Dirty Harry/Magnum Force 05/21/75 Rancho Deluxe 05/28/75 Stavisky 06/04/75 A Boy and His Dog 06/11/75 Bug 06/25/75 The Wind and the Lion (no notes for films until 12/17/75 – I may have inadvertantly forgot to write “T” for Terrace in some of the Gaylynn I or II listings – it’s confusing reading my old library notes taken years ago, especially when the film opened in multiple situations) 12/17/75 One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Movies that played at the Sharpstown/Gaylynn from 05/27/65 to 12/31/75. Research is from microfilms of The Houston Post and The Houston Chronicle. Dates given are the Wednesday of the opening week. 05/26/65 Mirage 06/09/65 The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders (renamed Gaylynn week of 6/16/65) 06/23/65 Cinderella 06/30/65 Harlow 08/04/65 In Harm’s Way 08/18/65 The Greatest Story Ever Told 09/29/65 Cat Ballou 11/10/65 What’s New, Pussycat? 11/17/65 Von Ryan’s Express 11/24/65 Old Yeller 12/08/65 Lord Jim 12/22/65 My Fair Lady (pop prices) 02/02/66 Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines (pop prices) 03/30/66 Othello 04/06/66 Viva, Maria! 05/04/66 The King and I 05/25/66 The Ten Commandments 06/29/66 Khartoum 08/24/66 The Blue Max 11/16/66 Is Paris Burning? 01/25/67 The Sand Pebbles 07/12/67 El Dorado 08/23/67 Barefoot in the Park 10/11/67 The Happiest Millionaire 01/24/68 Custer of the West 02/28/68 Smashing Time 03/13/68 Half a Sixpence 04/10/68 The Scalphunters 05/29/68 The Graduate 07/17/68 Around the World in 80 Days 08/28/68 The Producers 09/25/68 Bandolero 10/02/68 Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner 10/09/68 Doctor Faustus 10/16/68 The Fox 10/23/68 Funny Girl
(Second theater added – named Gaylynn Terrace – see following comment)
07/02/69 Krakatoa, East of Java 08/13/69 The Sound of Music 09/17/69 Cleopatra 10/01/69 Gone With the Wind 10/08/69 Camelot 10/22/69 Doctor Zhivago 10/29/69 Paint Your Wagon 03/11/70 Patton 10/14/70 Tora! Tora! Tora! 02/24/71 Wuthering Heights 04/07/71 Valdez is Coming 04/28/71 The Mephisto Waltz 05/26/71 When Eight Bells Toll 06/09/71 A Gunfight 06/25/71 Big Jake 08/04/71 Shootout 08/11/71 Fortune and Men’s Eyes 08/25/71 Walkabout 09/15/71 Death in Venice 10/06/71 The Touch 10/27/71 The Organization 11/10/71 The Greatest Story Ever Told 11/17/71 Joe Hill 12/08/71 San Francisco 12/15/71 Tora! Tora! Tora! 12/22/71 The Gang That Couldn’t Shoot Straight 01/19/72 Cactus in the Snow 02/09/72 J. W. Coop 02/23/72 Sunday, Bloody Sunday 03/08/72 Nicholas and Alexandra 06/28/72 The Last of the Red Hot Lovers 08/02/72 Slaughterhouse-Five 11/01/72 Skyjacked/Kansas City Bomber 11/08/72 Thoroughly Modern Millie 11/29/72 Song of Norway 12/20/72 Brother of the Wind 01/17/73 Gone With the Wind 01/24/73 The Mechanic 02/07/73 Across 110th Street 02/21/73 Avanti 03/07/73 Brian’s Song 03/14/73 Lolly Madonna XXX 03/21/73 The Long Goodbye 04/04/73 The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie 04/18/73 Brother Sun, Sister Moon 06/13/73 Trader Horn 06/20/73 Scarecrow 06/27/73 Live and Let Die 08/01/73 Santee 08/15/73 State of Siege 09/12/73 So Sad About Gloria 09/19/73 Heavy Traffic 10/17/73 Nicholas and Alexandra 10/31/73 Electric Glide in Blue 11/14/73 Cops and Robbers 11/21/73 Tales That Witness Madness 11/28/73 Pulp 12/19/73 Sleeper 01/30/74 The Serpent (Night Flight to Moscow) 02/13/74 Under Milkwood 02/20/74 Quadroon 03/06/74 Fiddler on the Roof 03/13/74 Lovin' Molly 04/10/74 The Spikes Gang 05/08/74 Billy Two Hats 05/15/74 Sleeper/Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex 05/22/74 Thunderbolt and Lightfoot 07/17/74 Mr. Majestyk 08/14/74 Bank Shot 08/21/74 2001: A Space Odyssey 10/16/74 Harry and Tonto
(Theater twinned or second theater added – now named Gaylynn I and Gaylynn II – not sure which auditorium from here as films would switch around)
12/18/74 The Man With the Golden Gun 01/01/75 The Night Porter 02/12/75 Lenny 02/19/75 The Strongest Man in the World 03/19/75 The Prisoner of Second Avenue 05/21/75 Shark’s Treasure 06/04/75 The Land That Time Forgot 06/11/75 The Return of the Pink Panther 06/18/75 Race With the Devil 07/02/75 The Wilby Conspiracy 07/09/75 Framed 07/16/75 White Line Fever 07/23/75 Tidal Wave 07/30/75 Take a Hard Ride 08/06/75 The Devil’s Rain 08/13/75 The Towering Inferno 09/03/75 Smile 09/10/75 Funny Girl 09/24/75 Undercovers Hero 10/08/75 Hard Times 10/15/75 Let’s Do it Again 11/05/75 Blue Water, White Death 11/12/75 The Ultimate Warrior 11/19/75 The Night Caller 11/19/75 Seven Alone 12/03/75 Welcome to My Nightmare 12/10/75 Double Agent ‘73 12/17/75 Superbug 12/17/75 Hard Heads 12/24/75 Mysteries from Beyond Earth 12/24/75 Dog Day Afternoon
This theater must have lasted longer than 1969, as I show “Diamonds are Forever” as the Christmas film there in 1971.