Cosmo Theatre
7938 S. Halsted Street,
Chicago,
IL
60620
7938 S. Halsted Street,
Chicago,
IL
60620
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The Cosmopolitan Theatre opened around 1913 in the North Englewood neighborhood on South Halsted Street between 79th and 80th Streets, originally for the Ascher Brothers circuit. It was later operated as part of the Cooney Brothers, and still later, the Warner Brothers and Stanley-Warner chains.
The Cosmo, as it was known in its later years, operated and least into the 50s. Today, a supermarket sits on the site of the Cosmo.
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Bryan Krefft
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A Kimball theater organ was installed in the Cosompolitan Theater in 1914.
From the Chicago Tribune, June 2, 1945:
“THEATER’S PAY PHONE STOLEN
John Camplan, owner of the Cosmo theatre,
7938 S. Halsted st., told police yesterday that
burglars entered the theater thru an open
stage door Wednesday and took a pay tele-
phone from a booth.”
The phone number in 1953 was RAdcliff 3-9452, but since their phone was stolen I wouldn’t recommend trying to call.
Not listed in 1955.
PUBLIC telephone.
The Aschers sold in April 1923, according to the Tribune:
THEATER, STORES SOLD BY ASCHER; PRICE, $328,000
According to the revenue stamps on the deed, Nathan Ascher, president of the Cosmopolitan Securities company, was paid $328,000, subject to an incumbrance of $90,000, for the Cosmopolitan theater, store and office building.
Here is a 1982 photo:
http://tinyurl.com/d8f6x3
Here is a January 1915 ad from the Suburbanite Economist:
http://tinyurl.com/pkdp6n
Here is a March 1915 ad from the same source:
http://tinyurl.com/n8v884