Vogue Theater
8459 Vine Street,
Cincinnati,
OH
45216
8459 Vine Street,
Cincinnati,
OH
45216
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The Vogue Theater was located next to the Vogue Cafe, which was established in 1925. Patrons who visited remember it had no balcony, but seemed to think that it had a curtained stage with an admission charge of 10 and 15 cents in the early Fifties. It closed sometime around 1968 and was torn down afterward.
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Oops slight date correction here, The Vogue theater was built in 1940 with the architect builder listed as Albert Harris. Opening ad for the Vogue was Oct. 12,1940 and the closing was Nov. 28,1967. Closing ad read ,“Thanks for 27 years of loyal patronage…Mrs. Chase.” I don’t know if Mrs. Chase was the owner or the manager of the Vogue. Theater site has long been a parking lot. Last film shown was entitled “The Slender Thread”‘ starring Sidney Poitier and Anne Bancroft. The Vogue sometimes held an evening billed as “Book Night”’ whatever that was.
The Vogue Cafe opened as Pinky’s in 1925.
A new brain cell is born….,“BOOK NIGHT”,appears to be a promotion to attract more cinema customers ,we think this is how it worked,each participating theater listed in their newspaper ad (the numbered free encyclopedia) they were giving away and on which days of the week that would happen. After several weeks of free giveaways the theaters began to charge a small fee to complete your full 26 volumes a-z which then could grace your home library. These encyclopedias were simple versions not Funk&Wagnall tomes! Seems to me that’s how my mother bought a set at our local New England IGA for 25 cents a week for 26 weeks. These promotions dated back to the originals like ,“Dish Nite”,and ,“Country Store Nite”, just a new wrinkle on the cinema block to attract patrons cash. I think there was also ,“Bank Nite”, where small amounts of cash were offered.
You guys are a wealth of information.I have heard of the Vogue but did not know all that stuff. That is in the Hartwell area of town.
Joe Allen; The late Vogue Th. was on Wyoming’s town line and Vine Street. Mrs. Chase was the owners wife and manager too. Chase’s, plus another partner couple owned a theater in the Dayton area as well.
albert harris was the grandfather of a best friend of mine growing up in wyoming. i didnt know, though, that he was the owner of the theater until after he had it torn down – otherwise i might have called him a few choice names.
miss chase was the manager who gave away prizes every saturday matinee, and one if you said it was your birthday too. when we were young teenagers, she did not allow you to put your arm around your girlfriend, and she called my parents more than once for other serious infractions.
my friend salvaged a framed picture of the vogue circa 1940 – the marquee shows “boom town” with clark gable playing. could have been much later, because they showed stuff long after it first appeared. “the slender thread” was the last film shown – i was there that night. not long after we all played in the rubble.
mrs chase was not the owners wife, btw. albert harris was the owner, and i knew his wife a little. definitely not ms chase. she did however have a sister who helped her behind the popcorn counter, taking tickets, etc. years after it closed i looked her up in the phone book and tried to call ms chase (we called her “miss” i think) but didnt connect.
My father was booking agent for the Vogue theater when it closed. He told me that the supermarket behind the theater wanted the theater to expand their parking. Mrs. Chase said to my father that she got tired of them asking and named what she thought was a ridiculous price, and they met it her so she sold it. I never heard the name Harris related to the Vogue.