Midtown Theatre
270 Dauphin Street,
Mobile,
AL
36603
270 Dauphin Street,
Mobile,
AL
36603
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Opened as the Crown Theatre in 1911. Later renamed the Midtown Theatre when it started playing adult fare. The theatre is now a night club called the Crown.
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Chuck Van Bibber
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A Moller theater organ opus 1959 size 2/9 was installed in the Crown Theater in 1915.
Listed as the Crown Theater in 1955 with 500 seats.
This is a 1988 photo of the Midtown Cinema.
From the Mobile Press-Register of February 23, 1911: “The opening of the New Crown Theatre last night was a conspicuous event in the history of Mobile amusements. When the doors of the beautiful new edifice located on Dauphin between Jackson and Joachim streets, were thrown open to the public, the people of Mobile were permitted for the first time to enjoy a moving picture performance in a building especially constructed for that purpose — beautiful, sanitary and refined in appearance.”
It is obvious that by 1988, it was hardly beautiful any more and no doubt something less than sanitary and refined.
When Google’s camera car went by in 2007, the Midtown Theatre building was sporting the signage of Atlantis, a night club that was closed in 2011. I’ve been unable to discover if the building has since been reoccupied, but it might be an establishment called the Sports Bar & Grill, unless the multiple search results are a bunch of old pages from before it became the Atlantis (somebody should come up with a way of cleaning the Internet.)
The ornate facade of the building is largely unchanged from the way it looked in this 1920 photo of the Crown Theatre from the Erik Overbey collection at the University of South Alabama.