Round Up Theater
2858-60 N. Milwaukee Avenue,
Chicago,
IL
60618
2858-60 N. Milwaukee Avenue,
Chicago,
IL
60618
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The Rose Theatre was one of several theaters in the Logan Square neighborhood, such as the Congress Theatre, the Logan Square Theatre and the Paramount Theatre (still operating today as the Logan Theatre). Most of the theaters, like the Rose Theatre, were located on Milwaukee Avenue.
The Rose Theatre opened in 1914 and could seat over 700. It appears to have closed and reopened more than once during the 1330’s. In 1936, the Rose Theatre reopened as the New Dale Theatre. In 1949, as the Round Up Theatre, its operators, the H & E Balaban chain, adopted a Westerns policy. It closed sometime during the 1950’s, and by the late-1950s, housed a furniture store.
In 2001, a restaurant operated out of the former lobby space, while the auditorium was used for storage. It was demolished in June 2009.
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Excuse me for appending my own entry above:
ABT claims this old photo dates to 1936 (?). Does that make sense given the film actually playing the ROUND-UP? And storefront advertising in the window of the old ABT store says “January Trade-In RoundUp”, a tie-in with their nextdoor neighbor also visible in the photo.
Abt is indicating that they were founded there in 1936, not that the photo is from 1936.
BWChicago: as you can see on the flyer that old photo’s printed side-by-side with the Glenview one dated 2009, and as such even if the intent is to express ABT’s age by printing 1936 over the old picture, you’ll agree most people will presume the vintage date/photo represent eachother actually.
I just walked down Milwaukee past Wolfram today, and noticed the old Round Up building in the process of being demolished. There’s nothing left but the rear entranceway and a pile of rubble…
This was much to my surprise, as the last I’d heard (last Fall) a local organization was planning to buy the place and convert it to a community theatre.
ROUND-UP (DALE) status as of yesterday – GONE.
As alluded to in the post directly above it was demolished last week.
Everybody hurry over to get your souvenier bricks, so you can mark and display next to your LUNA and PALACE Theatre bricks.
The owner should’ve posted to this site, if he had the sensitivity much less the guts, so one of us could’ve gone inside as a representative and final photographer.
another one bites the dust——-ipray this doesn’t happen to the uptown with crew and wrecking ball sneaking in the middle of the night——and when morning comes——A TRUE CLASSIC THEATER IS GONE FOREVER———
ooh – why do you even say such a thing SSB about the UPTOWN (yes I know not the right place for this). You see I drove by it yesterday expecting to see some sign of change or progress since ownership and policy question resolved a few months back. And you know what I saw? A lotta nothin'.
I’m sorry to report that I did take a number of photos inside the Dale a couple years ago, but lost them to a hard drive crash. It was in pretty poor shape but the upper lobby was fairly intact, sealed off since the 30s, the proscenium was there, and parts of the walls and ceilings in the auditorium. The worst section was the hall to the auditorium, which was down to bare brick.
Click on the photo tab. I have loaded a picture of the Round Up Theater.
In 1950 when I went to the Roundup as a kid we would go there in cowboy attire and check our capguns at the desk where they would all be hung on a pegboard with a claim check. Then we could see the movies but not be able to shoot our guns during them. Very cute. Everything else was cowboy also. A veritable boy’s fantasyland. Addio, Colonello and Addio, Roundup.