Garfield Theatre
2844 W. Madison Street,
Chicago,
IL
2844 W. Madison Street,
Chicago,
IL
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Located in the Garfield Park neighborhood, near the intersection of Madison Street and California Avenue, the 700-seat Garfield opened in 1909, and may have been a vaudeville house in its early years prior to switching over to movies. Seating was later reduced to 450.
The Garfield closed by about 1950, due to both competetion from television as well as the beginning of the decline of the Garfield Park neighborhood. The theater has since been torn down and the site is now a parking lot.
A smaller theater of the same name, located at Halsted and 55th Streets, near Garfield Boulevard in the New City neighborhood, was long ago closed and demolished.
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Bryan Krefft
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A Kimball theater organ size 2/9 was installed in the Garfield Theater in 1916.
judging by that fine 1964 B&W photo the GARFIELD remained for other purposes since the marquee advertises some show and it looks closed but not necessarily vacated much less abandoned