Fox-Bay Cinema Grill

Some additional notes: The odd name is the result of being on the border between two suburbs: Fox Point and Whitefish Bay. The reference to the VARSITY in the previous comment can be verified by going to th issue of Sept. 1938 of the “Architectural Record” pages 51-54., and the “Theatre Catalog” mentioned can be seen at the Archive of the THEATRE HISTORICAL SOCIETY in Elmhurst, Ill. (www.historictheatres.org). The CRYSTAL mentioned can be seen in a photo in “Milwaukee Movie Palaces” a 1986 book by Larry Widen. The future of the Fox-Bay is the more in doubt because it is in a swank neighborhood and in a classy limestone building with curved glass block corners with eight stores, and offices on the second floor above them, so it is quite possible for the local real estate investor who owns the building to convert it to other uses, such as the foretold Barnes & Noble book store which was interested in the space, so let’s hope as a multiplex it will prove profitable. The architects were Ebling, Plunkett & Keymar of Milwaukee.

The Fox Bay Cinema Grill has their own web site: http://foxbaycinemagrill.com/contact.htm

Thanks, Tim R., for providing these links which I had not seen. If you would like to be placed on my local list of those to receive occasional bulletins regarding local theatres developments, merely click on my name in blue below to be taken to my Profile page, and there click on CONTACT INFO and send me an E-mail with the word “theatre” somewhere in the Subject line.

Here is a 2008 photo.

The entry for architect Albert F. Keymar in the 1956 edition of the AIA’s American Architects Directory lists the Fox-Bay Theatre as one of his works, with the design date of 1949.