Ohio Theatre
29 East State Street,
Columbus,
OH
43215
29 East State Street,
Columbus,
OH
43215
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The former gift shop is now Capa’s ticket office.
10TV video about the history of the Ohio with lots of photos. View link
Keith: Nice to know that your great grandfather helped paint this cinema treasure in Columbus Ohio prior to its opening! What a painting legacy he left us all.
My great grandfather John Delfino helped paint the theater before it opened.
Thanks for the new photos retroguy.
1930s postcard
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It’s the Underground Parking Garage. The annex is on the east side of the Statehouse…the picture is of the west side.
Is the excavation to build the State House Annex?
early 60’s photo
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Very Nice.
To all: The link in 19JUL09 posting to the theatre organist page is indeed no longer any good. Tried it again just today (WED05MAY10, 6:05PCST) Oh well …
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Click here for a photograph of Loew’s United Artists Theatre taken in 1931 by George Mann of the comedy dance team, Barto & Mann.
Dear Jack Ober
If you’re referring to the link I posted above for the Dennis James recordings, I just tried it and it works perfectly. I also went over to my neighbor, who uses a completely different ISP, and it worked perfectly from there as well.
DanW
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To All: I apologize for all the typing errors. I had a stroke last year and my typing still isn’t what it used to be. If you cut-and-paste the link below, it should take you to the Dennis James page of “The Puget Sound Pipeline” where pictures can be found of the two LPs I have.
http://www.pstos.org/organists/wa/djames.htm
“Puttin' On the Ritz"
Side 1
1. Puttin' on the Ritz
2. The Japanese Sandman
3. Do, Do, Do
4. I Got Rythm
5. Warsaw Concerto
6. The Great Esacpe March
Side 2
1. Victory at Sea Suite
2. Duke Ellington Medley: Sophisticated Lady; Don’t Get Around Much Any More; Mood Indigo
3. La Danza
Dennis and Heidi performed every piece on the above LP at that concert at the old Fox in San Diego so many years ago.
Dennis James At the RTOS Wurlitzer: Theatre Organ Selections
Side 1
1. If My Friends Could See Me Now
2. Butterflies in the Rain
3. Colonel Bogey March
4. Raining in My Heart
5. Danse Macabre
Side 2
1. Maple Leaf Rag
2. Glenn Miller Medley: Moonlight Serenade; Pennsylvania 6-5000; Serenade in Blue; Chattanooga Choo-Choo
3. American Patrol
4. George Gerswhin Medley: Someone to Watch Over Me; Fascinatin' Rythm; I’ll Build a Stairway to Paradise
Again, Dennis performed all of these numbers on that wonderful Robert Morton 4/32 at the San Diego Fox (to me, it will always be the Fox regardless of the name change to Copley Symphony Hall). I’ve seen this LP on E-Bay, but have never, ever seen “Puttin' On the Ritz” anywhere at all.
(continuing with the above; I hit the wrong key) It is titled “Dennis James at the RTOS Wulitzer: Theatre Organ Selections”. I have also recorded it into a lossless wave file. Again, no date as to when it was recorded.
I have an LP recorded by Dennis and Heidi James titlted “Puttin' on the Ritz”. Dennis is at this very organ and Heidi is on piano. I bought it after a concert they performed at the old Fox Theatre in San Diego (now Copley Symphony Hall) back in the early or mid ‘70s. I have no idea when it was actually recorded but Dennis announced that it was a very limited pressing and that when what was in the lobby then was sold, there would be no more. I made sure to have him autograph the one I bought. On the back it says: Dennis James Productions, c/o The Ohio Theatre, Capitol Square, Columbus, Ohio 43215. As I say, there is no date. I just recorde3d it into a lossles wave file yesterday along with another that I also puchased at one of his San Diego concerts (this one some time around 1972 or 1973).
1982 photo of the Ohio Theatre.
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Another 1982 photo of the Ohio Theatre.
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1982 photo of the Marquee & Entrance of the Ohio Theatre.
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1982 photo of the Box Office of the Ohio Theatre.
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Another 1982 photo of the Ohio Theatre.
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Another 1982 photo showing the Stained glass in the corner of the marquee of the Ohio Theatre.
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1956 photo of the Loew’s Ohio Theatre.
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1967 photo of the Loew’s Ohio Theatre.
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Here is a February 1969 article from the Columbus Evening Dispatch:
A group of Central Ohioans interested in saving the Loew’s Ohio Theater, 43 E. State St, from destruction have organized the Committee for a Columbus Cultural Arts Center. More than 100 theater fans met Saturday to tour the theater and decided to form an organization to raise funds to lease or purchase the building. The building is in the process of being sold to 55 E. State St. Corp.
Corporation officials say the theater will be razed. State officials have been looking at the location, across the street from the Statehouse, for a state office building.
Committee spokesman Mrs. Howard A. Bloom said that her group will ask the public to write the mayor, the Columbus City Council and Governor Rhodes for a 90 day stay in destruction of the theater. No destruction date has been made public, and the sale of the building has not been completed. The committee has proposed that the theater be used as a performing arts center.
Mrs. Bloom said that architects told the group the theater is structurally sound and “there would be little difficulty” in using the present theater as a base and building an office building on top of it. An entrance to the office section would be on the ground level.
Here is a photograph I took of the Ohio’s organist prior to a 2005 screening of “Rebel Without a Cause”: View link
Patsy, Many of the architectural details of our Cincinnati, Ohio E.F.Albee Th. (1927-1976)were purchased and moved to Columbus when the Albee Th. was demolished in 1977. The front brass lobby doors and even an interior drinking fountain reside at the glorious Ohio Th.
Here is the Ohio Theater at night.
This theatre looks to have an original and very nicely restored ticket kios!