Liberty Theatre
420 Saint Charles Avenue,
New Orleans,
LA
70130
420 Saint Charles Avenue,
New Orleans,
LA
70130
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Should have an AKA Rko Liberty. RKO took over operations of the Liberty in the-1940’s. I would think that it should be listeed as the RKO Liberty with an AKA Liberty since RKO Liberty was the name until it closed in 1955.
The theater next door and to the right in that photo must be the St Charles Theater. This theater should have an aka name of RKO Liberty.
Actually, there’s another picture of the Liberty on the same site that you cited earlier;
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where, if one looks to the right, a set of framed exhibition photos for the film showing at the theater next door and what appears to be a neon letter ’S' on top of what is undoubtedly a marquee can be seen. Considering also the streetcar tracks in front of the theaters, I don’t think there’s any doubt about the location being St. Charles Street circa 1950.
Thanks. I also think that the photo of the RKO LIberty Theater is the same theater listed here. Saenger Amusements gives the location of the Liberty theater as Saint Charles Avenue, located to the left of the St Charles Theater.
The Mike Rivest website lists only one Liberty Theater in New Orleans, locating it at 420 St. Charles and further indicates that the operator was RKO from 1950-55. “Tarzan and the Leopard Woman” was re-released by RKO in 1950 (originally released in 1946).
CinemaTour, though, puts this theater on Canal Street (no number indicated). The picture matches, but I doubt that it was on Canal.
Was this theater also known as the RKO LIberty? This is a photo of an RKO Liberty Theater in New Orleans. No address is given so I don’t know if its this theater.
A Moller theater organ was installed in the Liberty Theater in 1922.
Here is a 1935 photo:
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The 1945 Film Daily Yearbook shows the Liberty seating 1250.
Library of Congress website has a photo and lists the location as Saint Charles Street.