Schindler's Theater
1005 W. Huron Street,
Chicago,
IL
60622
1005 W. Huron Street,
Chicago,
IL
60622
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a 1946 Chicago newspaper movie listing contains a listing for SCHINDLERS, and the location shown in teeny-tiny ad print is ‘Milwaukee & Huron’
Listed in 1950 at 1005 W. Huron Street with 700 seats. The two addresses aren’t that far apart. Looking at Google maps, the W. Huron Street address looks like the auditorium and the N. Milwaukee Avenue might have been the entrance.
1954 yellow pages list this theater at 690 N. Milwaukee Avenue. If you look at the Google photo for that address, you see an old building which is in the middle of some drastic renovation.
It was open at least 1908-1951, had a balcony and was converted into a garage by 1953. It also had a sizable stage.
Angelo, how do you mean “a new sparking marquee”? Was it merely neon tubing that occasionally “sparked” or an actual sparking device? If a device, please describe it for us.
As a youngester I recall going to this theater. Children under twelve before 6 p.m. was 12 cents admission. The theater was not airconditoned but somehow was comfortable even on very hot days I recall posters on the outside of the building that read Movies direct from the Loop. During the late forties the owners remodled the lobby, installed all new seats and a new sparking marquee.
Fond memories of a time past
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