I remember Return to Oz playing ther. Later that summer I saw Pee~Wee’s Big Adventure and My Science Project there. The next year I went there to see Big Trouble in Little China.
There’s a story in my family about my uncle, Jay Clearwaters, working there as a teenager circa the early ‘50s. Even though he was a teenager, he became assistant manager. One night, shortly after he’d gone home, armed burglars got in. The manager and his wife were tied up and beaten with a cosh and the money taken. The wife had to be hospitalized. …… My uncle could get family members in for free. My mom remembers getting to see the original Howard Hawks version of The Thing there.
I’ve seen reference to a Broadway theater in Salt Lake way back in 1914. Maybe it was a different theater with the same name? It played one of the silent Oz films.
I see mention of the New Orpheum in Glasgow in the March 5, 1915 edition of The Glasgow Courier.There are announcements for Tillie’s Punctured Romance, William Tell, and The Patchwork Girl of Oz.
On October 1, 1915 the Airdome showed Country Circus, a movie produced by the Oz Film Manufacturing Company after the three silent Oz features failed to make a profit. L. Frank Baum, author of the Oz books, wrote the story and probably oversaw the production (as he had on the Oz movies).
As others here have observed,the Acme seems to go back earlier than 1916. I see an ad for it in the Goldsboro Weekly Argus dated September 30, 1915. An address isn’t given, though.
Was it always called the Music Hall? I’m trying to find info. about a theater in Portsmouth called the Scenic, which in 1915, showed mostly movies by Paramount.
A movie called The Country Circus played there on November 5, 1915 (having just played at the Princess, also in Quincy, on October 28). The Country Circus was written by L. Frank Baum (The Wizard of Oz).
I just came across an LA Times circa Oct. 24, 1953 mentioning the Maynard Theater (2488 W. Washington Blvd.). It was showing the epic Russian fantasy Sadko.Apparently Maynard was open a little later than 1951 or had closed and reopened briefly?
Was there a Denny’s (or Denny’s-like) restaurant across the street from that theater in the mid-‘70s? I’m trying to figure out if I saw a movie there in '76.
The last movie I saw there was on 9/11/01. After watching news coverage of the Twin Towers being destroyed all day, I needed to get out. I went to the Vine to see Spielberg and Kubrick’s A.I. I walked in to see New York destroyed in the movie, too. (Since I was early the previous showing was still going.)
Here are some of the movies I saw there, starting in June of ‘75 and ending spring '98. The Land That Time Forgot with The Neptune Factor, Journey Back to Oz (rerelease), King Kong (1976 remake),The Spy Who Loved Me, Grease, Moonraker, Hero At Large, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, Return of the Jedi, Twilight Zone:The Movie with Blue Thunder, Splash, Dreamscape, Back to the Future (multiple times over nine months), Real Genius, Warning Sign,Twice in a Lifetime, Short Circuit, The Fly (1986 remake), The Boy Who Could Fly, An American Tail, The Gate, Sleeping Beauty (Cannon Movie Tales), Masters of the Universe, Pass the Ammo, They Live, Fearing and Loathing in Las Vegas
I saw Battlestar Galactica there in Sensurround (summer ‘79), Dark Crystal (opening night, 1982), Labyrinth (1986), Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986).
I remember Return to Oz playing ther. Later that summer I saw Pee~Wee’s Big Adventure and My Science Project there. The next year I went there to see Big Trouble in Little China.
Graffiti says “Please don’t die.”
August 1967 during an anti-war march (that terminated at Kezar Stadium).
There’s a story in my family about my uncle, Jay Clearwaters, working there as a teenager circa the early ‘50s. Even though he was a teenager, he became assistant manager. One night, shortly after he’d gone home, armed burglars got in. The manager and his wife were tied up and beaten with a cosh and the money taken. The wife had to be hospitalized. …… My uncle could get family members in for free. My mom remembers getting to see the original Howard Hawks version of The Thing there.
That’s how I remember it in the mid-‘70s, a big theater with a lot of reds.
King Kong was playing there on June 23, 1933.
I saw Agatha there in February of that year.
There was a Braun theater in Wahpeton circa 1915. Don’t know if it had any connection to these other theaters.
Advertised back in 1915, Evening Review, January 26.
An ad for it appeared in the Helena Independent on Oct. 23, 1914.
I’ve seen reference to a Broadway theater in Salt Lake way back in 1914. Maybe it was a different theater with the same name? It played one of the silent Oz films.
In a fall, 1914 edition of the Englewood Economist, the theater is called The Linden Photodrome. (October 19, 1914, p. 3.)
I see mention of the New Orpheum in Glasgow in the March 5, 1915 edition of The Glasgow Courier.There are announcements for Tillie’s Punctured Romance, William Tell, and The Patchwork Girl of Oz.
On October 1, 1915 the Airdome showed Country Circus, a movie produced by the Oz Film Manufacturing Company after the three silent Oz features failed to make a profit. L. Frank Baum, author of the Oz books, wrote the story and probably oversaw the production (as he had on the Oz movies).
As others here have observed,the Acme seems to go back earlier than 1916. I see an ad for it in the Goldsboro Weekly Argus dated September 30, 1915. An address isn’t given, though.
Was it always called the Music Hall? I’m trying to find info. about a theater in Portsmouth called the Scenic, which in 1915, showed mostly movies by Paramount.
A movie called The Country Circus played there on November 5, 1915 (having just played at the Princess, also in Quincy, on October 28). The Country Circus was written by L. Frank Baum (The Wizard of Oz).
I just came across an LA Times circa Oct. 24, 1953 mentioning the Maynard Theater (2488 W. Washington Blvd.). It was showing the epic Russian fantasy Sadko.Apparently Maynard was open a little later than 1951 or had closed and reopened briefly?
Was there a Denny’s (or Denny’s-like) restaurant across the street from that theater in the mid-‘70s? I’m trying to figure out if I saw a movie there in '76.
The Pufnstuf movie played there for a while in 1970.
I found a reference to this theater circa 1915 in Motion Picture World.
The last movie I saw there was on 9/11/01. After watching news coverage of the Twin Towers being destroyed all day, I needed to get out. I went to the Vine to see Spielberg and Kubrick’s A.I. I walked in to see New York destroyed in the movie, too. (Since I was early the previous showing was still going.)
I saw the James Bond movie, License to Kill, there shortly after it became the Ritz.
Here are some of the movies I saw there, starting in June of ‘75 and ending spring '98. The Land That Time Forgot with The Neptune Factor, Journey Back to Oz (rerelease), King Kong (1976 remake),The Spy Who Loved Me, Grease, Moonraker, Hero At Large, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, Return of the Jedi, Twilight Zone:The Movie with Blue Thunder, Splash, Dreamscape, Back to the Future (multiple times over nine months), Real Genius, Warning Sign,Twice in a Lifetime, Short Circuit, The Fly (1986 remake), The Boy Who Could Fly, An American Tail, The Gate, Sleeping Beauty (Cannon Movie Tales), Masters of the Universe, Pass the Ammo, They Live, Fearing and Loathing in Las Vegas
I saw Battlestar Galactica there in Sensurround (summer ‘79), Dark Crystal (opening night, 1982), Labyrinth (1986), Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986).