Patio Theatre
6008 West Irving Park Road,
Chicago,
IL
60634
6008 West Irving Park Road,
Chicago,
IL
60634
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Take a look at “The Cost of History” featuring the Patio Theatre. Go to the CT home page and click on “Latest movie theater videos”.
Here’s a memorial tribute to Mr. Alex Kouvalis, who I was fortunate to meet shortly after he took over the PATIO. http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=pi&GRid=104918232 Comments and tributes are welcome.
The digital projector has been in since November. Check the website.
Digital projectors are in now from what I understand.
True. Parking is free after 9pm where there is a paybox. What is insane is they have to be fed on Sunday. No wonder so many vacant storefronts on city streets. Why pay when suburbs are so easily gotten too. Sorry Rahm, this should have been overturned.
Pearselives is correct, many pay zones are free after a certain time of night.
You can’t park free anywhere in the city where there is a box on the street. No more free nights, no more free Sundays, no parking holidays.
A conversation with Patio owner Demetri Kouvalis about the digital conversion here.
I love this place. As far as the parking goes, most people do not know that you can park on Irving for free after 9 on Fridays and Saturdays. There may be other days, but I’m not exactly sure. The paybox will say if payment is required or not. We always go to the later show and never have any issue parking directly across the street. There is usually plenty of parking in the neighborhood and on Austin as well. Just make sure that you aren’t in a permit area and come expecting a little bit of a walk just in case.
I surely hope the former Norridge patrons will discover the Patio. A real deal and not sky high prices for popcorn & drinks and a beautiful screen!! The attraction board is blank today at the Norridge and the Loews Theaters sign is removed.
More here on the Patio reaching its fundraising campaign target from TimeOut Chicago.
Wouldn’t you think that would have been done during the first year of operation? At least not the bank but maybe the church, somewhere. Parking is a must in todays movie business. No parking=loss of future patrons. Portage has a deal with Sears big lot. Who wants to pay for Chicago’s high street parking fees. Outrage and insane idea…
They have tried that in the past and it didn’t work out, but then again the bank may be under new management.
Maybe the management of the Patio could work out some sort of deal with the BMO Harris Bank down the block to use their parking lot during the evening hours to help relieve the parking issue?
Didn’t know about the Norridge closing. It was opened last week. Is this for sure? If only the Patio had parking. I find it hard to believe the Loews Norridge patrons would travel down the street to a second-run house and not to a nearby multi screen house. I think the Pickwick would benefit because they show first-run and have parking aplenty!
Per this article in Hollywood Chicago, the Patio has reached its Kickstarter campaign goal and will remain in operation. Great news!
Norridge closing should be good for the Patio. Hope they can get the word out.
btkrefft, I don’t remember the Gateway having a vertical sign. The Portage of course did and quite high and I don’t know what year in came down. I was impressed by the Patio’s picture you posted. I always thought a vertical with chasing lights was the icing on the cake for a movie palace..
Bobby, I have been looking for quite some time for a photo of the Patio with the vertical sign. I remember when I was very little, in the early 70s, going to the Patio with my grandparents, for some reason I have a vague recollection of not only the marquee lit up at night, but also chaser lights on a vertical marquee. Maybe I’m thinking of another theater, but the only ones we usually went to in the neighborhood were the Portage, the Patio or, rarely, the Gateway.
Great picture of the vertical. I wonder why it was removed? Nice to see trolley buses too. No polution and cheap to operate I imagine.
Photos of the Patio’s vertical sign from 1960 and 1964
An article about the fund-raising effort to enable the acquisition of digital equipment: View link
This opened on January 29th, 1927. I uploaded the grand opening ad in the photo section for this cinema.
Rather than requesting donations, perhaps the owner of the theater should incorporate and sell shares to raise the funds to purchase digital equipment. Donations work best when there is a tax write-off from a non profit.
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1911305952/save-the-historic-patio-theater