Stadium Theater
226 S. Ninth Street,
Mt. Vernon,
IL
62864
226 S. Ninth Street,
Mt. Vernon,
IL
62864
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The address for the Stadium Theatre is 226 South Ninth Street, Mt. Vernon, Il.
The building apparently has been bought by Randy Farrar, who also bought the bookstore and pool hall next door. He’s renovating the pool hall for an upscale pool hall.
The Film Daily Yearbook, 1950 gives a seating capacity of 775.
This seems like a cool late deco/streamline design. The church is called the Antioch International Assembly. Mount Vernon seemed to have a big surge following the construction of its large deco/streamline courthouse. The town also has a cool railroad depot I didn’t get a chance to look closely at as well as what appeared to be an older courthouse. Photos of the Stadium are at http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/ctid3206/
Some theaters are listed on here as being in Mt. Vernon and others are in Mount Vernon. Couldn’t they all be listed the same way. Either Mt. Vernon or Mount Vernon. As it is now, you have to search twice to find all of these theaters.
The year given for this photo is 1999.
Here are photos from 1983 and 1985:
http://tinyurl.com/pgy976
http://tinyurl.com/oj989r
http://tinyurl.com/pos4uh
This is the building in 2009.