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Home » Theater Guide » Location » United States » Illinois » Chicago » Crystal Theater

Crystal Theater

Chicago, IL
2701 W. North Avenue
, Chicago, IL 60647 United States
(map)
Status: Closed/Demolished
Screens: Single Screen
Style: Unknown
Function: Unknown
Seats: 1860
Chain: Unknown
Architect: Henry L. Newhouse
Firm: Unknown
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This large neighborhood theater, seating nearly 1900, was built originally for the Lynch circuit in 1917. It later was operated by Balaban & Katz.

It was located in the Humboldt Park neighborhood on North Avenue between Fairfield and Washtenaw Avenues. The theater closed in the mid-60s and was razed soon after closing.
Contributed by Bryan Krefft

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The CRYSTAL'd have Saturday a.m. kiddie shows in the early '60s, for
which free passes sometimes were distributed around my grammar school (7 FACES OF DR. LAO for example). Unique was that the theatre's outside movie poster displays were NOT glass-encased (just tacked-up at all times); many budding film poster collections were begun here as a result of this. They gave up the ghost around 1965 and quick demolition without the usual conversion or darkened aftermath (which stunned me a little then).
posted by G. Feret on Dec 19, 2006 at 10:30am
A Barton theater organ was installed in the Crystal Theater in 1920. Note: Dividend manual.

posted by Lost Memory on Dec 6, 2007 at 7:06pm
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