Esquire Theatre
58 East Oak Street,
Chicago,
IL
60611
58 East Oak Street,
Chicago,
IL
60611
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Originally the 1938 movie house had a single auditorium with over 1,400 seats, but the Esquire Theatre underwent a conversion to a six-plex in 1988.
Most recently operated by the AMC Entertainment chain after many years under the Loews Cineplex chain, the Esquire Theatre was closed in September 2006.
In 2011, the Esquire Theatre was gutted and its marquee removed, and will become retail space. The vertical sign and part of its facade will be retained.
Contributed by
Ross Melnick
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Broan, your above link is not accessable.
When CT changed their website format, they changed the manner in which links need to be embedded into comments.
Unfortunately I do not know what that requires. Therefore I only attach photos in the Photo Section.
Just copy and paste the address, David. I don’t always have time to mess with the HTML link formatting, but the URL address works and that’s what matters.
Here’s what I usually do with links; I BLUE copy it; then go to my e-mail; click “COMPOSE”; paste link onto page where I would normally type e-mail; send it to myself….and then click link and WALLLLA….there’s the link with photos of video clip….
Click here to see Broan’s pictures.
Some photos of what’s left of the Esquire can be seen here.
More on the conversion of the Esquire to retail space can be read here, from the June 19th Chicago Sun-Times.
Here’s a 1944 trade article celebrating the seventh anniversary of the Esquire’s existence: boxofficemagazine
More photos of the transformation of the Esquire into Del Frisco’s Double Eagle steak house can be seen here.
Judgement should not be passed until they finish. But to me it looks like this is going to be an extremely clumsy-looking building.
In “the Sound Track Book of the Theatre” published by Motiograph in the late forties there’s an article about the Esqire’s booth and projectionist Lou Malisoff. They had Motiograph K’s, RCA 1050’s and Brenkert Enarcs.