As can be seen from this photo uploaded here by stepwest, the AVCO was mostly demolished and rebuilt for iPic. This page on the Robinson Construction Co. web site has four photos of the iPic, but the three interior shots are all of the restaurant and bar.
The rebuild was designed by the Dallas firm Hodges Architecture (formerly Hodges & Associates.) This page at Hodges' web site has a more extensive slide show that includes a couple of pictures of the Avco building before demolition.
There are three exterior photos of the Bridgeport Stadium 18 on this page of the web site of Robinson Construction Co., builders of the project for Regal Cinemas. The cinema was designed by TVA Architects (formerly Thompson Vaivoda & Associates) of Portland.
Blair Ballard Architects has decided to condense its name to BB Architects. I suppose Mr. Ballard should be commended for his modesty (a rare trait among architects, in my experience.) The Regal Barkley Village 16 is among the theater projects given its own slide show on the firm’s web site.
You’ll find more photos of the Regal 16 starting on this page at the web site of Robinson Construction Co., the firm that built the project. It gives the seating capacity as 2,935.
The Regal 16 has been renovated, and one auditorium has been converted to 4DX (rumbly tumbly smell-o-vision with weather.) I don’t know what the seating capacity is now, but it’s probably been greatly reduced by the installation of new, larger seats as seen in the photo on this web page. They apparently couldn’t be arsed to remodel all the way with stadium seating, though. Architects for the renovation were The Design Collective.
It appears that the magazines I cited in my previous comment misspelled the theater owner’s name. His capsule movie reviews in issues of Motion Picture Herald from 1946, 1947, and 1948 (there are dozens of them) are signed James C. Balkcom, Jr..
The April 10, 1947, issue of Motion Picture Daily mentioned the Gray Theatre:
“Atlanta, April 9. — Martin and Thompson theatres circuit has sold the Gray, at Gray, to J. C. Balcom and the Roxy, at Milan, to Cecil Crumby.”
Mr. Balcom might have been the manager of the Gray for Martin and Thompson prior to buying the house from them. A brief review, written by J. C. Balcom, Jr., of the Gray Theatre, Gray, Ga., was published in the “What the Picture Did For Me” section of the May 12, 1945, issue of Motion Picture Herald.
The current Google street view shows only one sign on the building, that being a “For Sale” sign posted by Stebbins Commercial Properties.
This web page indicates that the building has been bought by the Manchester Development Corporation, on behalf of the city, and it was to have been renovated as a home for the Old Sol Music Hall, with its opening planned for 2018. However, the latest news on the Old Sol web site says that the deal has fallen through.
I can’t find anything more recent telling of what is to become of the Rex’s building, but presumably the city still owns it and it is currently not in use.
This item from the June 17, 1920, issue of Engineering News-Record is the earliest item I’ve found about the Capitol Theatre:
“Wis., Manitowoc – Theatre – Until Feb. 1 by W.T. [sic] Raeuber, archt., Teitgen Bldg., constructing 2 story, 100 x 125 ft. brick, tile and steel, brick foundation, for George Bros. Co., South 8th St. Cost between $100,000 and $150,000 .”
The November 4 issue of the same journal noted that contracts had been let for the somewhat altered project:
“Wis., Manitowoc – Theatre – W. J. Raeuber, archt., Teitgen Bldg., let contract to Badger State Constr. Co., Manitowoc, building 4 story, 87 x 115 ft., concrete, brick and steel, for George Bros., 913 S. 8th St. About $125,000. Noted May 6.”
Plans were apparently altered again before completion, as in its final form the building had only three storys.
Architect William J. Raeuber was practicing in Manitowoc at least as early as 1900. In 1906 he provided the plans for a remodeling and expansion of the Ceske Slovanska Lipa Opera House (one of two opera houses Manitowoc then boasted) at 411 N. 8th Street. The Opera House also showed movies from time to time before being converted into a dance hall.
The National Chevy Association retails new and used parts for Chevrolet automobiles made from 1949-1954. They appear to do business primarily online, so the building probably houses their offices and warehousing and shipping facilities.
It has undoubtedly been reseated with larger seats and more leg room (…“the most comfortable and easy viewing seats in town” according to the earlier comment by baileysporck.)
Olde Sedona Bar & Grill is at 1405 AZ Hy 89. 1420 is now the location of a Whole Foods Market, and it looks like fairly new construction. I’m pretty sure that the Flicker Shack’s building has been demolished.
The original Normandie Theatre was said to be a replica of the theater on the French liner of the same name. The Internet has a number of photos of the theater on the liner, but the only photo I’ve found of the 53rd Street house itself is an interior shot of the back quarter of the auditorium on this web page. It’s a small scan, with limited area enlarging possible by hovering your cursor over it.
The description says that the Strand/Paramount was built next door to the Dixie, but we have the Paramount listed at 1312 26th, which would be a block away and on the opposite side of the street from 1407 26th.
Along with several depressing photos of the Palace in decay, this web page has a color photo of a corridor (probably in the mezzanine) when the splendid Spanish Baroque decor was still intact. But parts of the building must be in danger of imminent collapse.
Looking at the building from 8th Street in Google street view, the advanced decay of the brick wall of the auditorium is all too visible. There are even some shrubs and what appear to be at least two small trees growing from the tops of the walls. That is the very last stage of decay before a wall just crumbles. The time when the Palace can still be saved is very short, if it has not in fact already run out. I don’t know how long ago Google’s street views were taken.
The report on theater construction in 1975 that was published in the May 3, 1976, issue of Boxoffice listed the 1,544-seat Saratoga Six opened at San Jose by American Multi Cinema.
The report on theater construction in 1975 that was published in the May 3, 1976, issue of Boxoffice listed a house at Los Banos called Cinema I & II, opened by Tom Graff. I wonder if that could have been this theater?
I also wonder of the Tom Graff mentioned was the attorney who was a long-time environmental activist in the central valley and state director of the Environmental Defense Fund. He might have built the theater as an investment.
The report on theater construction in 1975 that was published in Boxoffice of May 3, 1976, listed a 200-seat house in Stuttgart called the Cinema which had been opened by a Dr. John Miller. Could that have been the origin of this theater?
The report on new theater construction in 1975 that was published in the May 3, 1976, issue of Boxoffice listed a house (mistakenly listed in Little Rock) called the Other Center Twin, opened with 500 seats by an outfit called Theatre Presentations. I think it might have been the origin of this multiplex.
If this house was in the Breckenridge Village shopping center, then it was probably the quad that UA opened in 1975. That project was listed in the 1975 new theater construction report that was published in Boxoffice of May 3, 1976. The report didn’t say if it was entirely new construction or a remodeling/expansion of an earlier house, but UA was building a lot of new quads in the mid-1970s.
The report on new theaters built in 1975 that ran in the May 3, 1976, issue of Boxoffice listed The Plaza, a 700-seat triplex at Yuma opened by Great Western Theatres.
The May 20, 1975, issue of The Yuma Daily Sun said that a benefit premier would be held Thursday night (May 22) with a showing of The Four Musketeers. The Friday night grand opening would feature The Great Waldo Pepper in one of the larger auditoriums and The Godfather Part II in the other. The small, 120-seat auditorium would open with A Woman Under the Influence.
Judging from street view, it looks like the building had an addition at one point, on the W. 15th Place side, so the two additional screens that brought the total to five were probably in that. I don’t know what the final seat count was.
Looking at the opening day schedule, it strikes me that one of the four auditoriums simply might not have been ready for use yet. Back in single-screen days if there was a construction or equipment-related delay, the theater’s opening would have to be postponed, but with this quad the grand opening could have been done on schedule with three screens while the workers finished up whatever had to be done in the fourth auditorium.
Commemorating this vanished theater, the Sedona Public Library now presents a free film series called Flicker Shack Movie Mondays, screened in the library’s Si Birch Community Room.
Opened on August 21, 1975, the rustic style, 300-seat Flicker Shack was Sedona’s first movie theater, though by that time the town and surrounding countryside had been used as the location for more than a hundred movie productions. Boxoffice featured an illustrated article about the Flicker Shack in its issue of February 16, 1976.
As can be seen from this photo uploaded here by stepwest, the AVCO was mostly demolished and rebuilt for iPic. This page on the Robinson Construction Co. web site has four photos of the iPic, but the three interior shots are all of the restaurant and bar.
The rebuild was designed by the Dallas firm Hodges Architecture (formerly Hodges & Associates.) This page at Hodges' web site has a more extensive slide show that includes a couple of pictures of the Avco building before demolition.
Thompson Vaivoda & Associates has condensed its name to TVA Architects.
There are three exterior photos of the Bridgeport Stadium 18 on this page of the web site of Robinson Construction Co., builders of the project for Regal Cinemas. The cinema was designed by TVA Architects (formerly Thompson Vaivoda & Associates) of Portland.
Blair Ballard Architects has decided to condense its name to BB Architects. I suppose Mr. Ballard should be commended for his modesty (a rare trait among architects, in my experience.) The Regal Barkley Village 16 is among the theater projects given its own slide show on the firm’s web site.
You’ll find more photos of the Regal 16 starting on this page at the web site of Robinson Construction Co., the firm that built the project. It gives the seating capacity as 2,935.
The Regal 16 has been renovated, and one auditorium has been converted to 4DX (rumbly tumbly smell-o-vision with weather.) I don’t know what the seating capacity is now, but it’s probably been greatly reduced by the installation of new, larger seats as seen in the photo on this web page. They apparently couldn’t be arsed to remodel all the way with stadium seating, though. Architects for the renovation were The Design Collective.
It appears that the magazines I cited in my previous comment misspelled the theater owner’s name. His capsule movie reviews in issues of Motion Picture Herald from 1946, 1947, and 1948 (there are dozens of them) are signed James C. Balkcom, Jr..
The April 10, 1947, issue of Motion Picture Daily mentioned the Gray Theatre:
Mr. Balcom might have been the manager of the Gray for Martin and Thompson prior to buying the house from them. A brief review, written by J. C. Balcom, Jr., of the Gray Theatre, Gray, Ga., was published in the “What the Picture Did For Me” section of the May 12, 1945, issue of Motion Picture Herald.Boxoffice of May 10, 1947, had a brief item about the Roxy:
The current Google street view shows only one sign on the building, that being a “For Sale” sign posted by Stebbins Commercial Properties.
This web page indicates that the building has been bought by the Manchester Development Corporation, on behalf of the city, and it was to have been renovated as a home for the Old Sol Music Hall, with its opening planned for 2018. However, the latest news on the Old Sol web site says that the deal has fallen through.
I can’t find anything more recent telling of what is to become of the Rex’s building, but presumably the city still owns it and it is currently not in use.
This item from the June 17, 1920, issue of Engineering News-Record is the earliest item I’ve found about the Capitol Theatre:
The November 4 issue of the same journal noted that contracts had been let for the somewhat altered project:Plans were apparently altered again before completion, as in its final form the building had only three storys.Architect William J. Raeuber was practicing in Manitowoc at least as early as 1900. In 1906 he provided the plans for a remodeling and expansion of the Ceske Slovanska Lipa Opera House (one of two opera houses Manitowoc then boasted) at 411 N. 8th Street. The Opera House also showed movies from time to time before being converted into a dance hall.
The National Chevy Association retails new and used parts for Chevrolet automobiles made from 1949-1954. They appear to do business primarily online, so the building probably houses their offices and warehousing and shipping facilities.
It has undoubtedly been reseated with larger seats and more leg room (…“the most comfortable and easy viewing seats in town” according to the earlier comment by baileysporck.)
Olde Sedona Bar & Grill is at 1405 AZ Hy 89. 1420 is now the location of a Whole Foods Market, and it looks like fairly new construction. I’m pretty sure that the Flicker Shack’s building has been demolished.
The original Normandie Theatre was said to be a replica of the theater on the French liner of the same name. The Internet has a number of photos of the theater on the liner, but the only photo I’ve found of the 53rd Street house itself is an interior shot of the back quarter of the auditorium on this web page. It’s a small scan, with limited area enlarging possible by hovering your cursor over it.
The description says that the Strand/Paramount was built next door to the Dixie, but we have the Paramount listed at 1312 26th, which would be a block away and on the opposite side of the street from 1407 26th.
The partners in the firm of Shaw & Woleben were engineer Hobart D. Shaw and architect Dean P. Woleben.
Along with several depressing photos of the Palace in decay, this web page has a color photo of a corridor (probably in the mezzanine) when the splendid Spanish Baroque decor was still intact. But parts of the building must be in danger of imminent collapse.
Looking at the building from 8th Street in Google street view, the advanced decay of the brick wall of the auditorium is all too visible. There are even some shrubs and what appear to be at least two small trees growing from the tops of the walls. That is the very last stage of decay before a wall just crumbles. The time when the Palace can still be saved is very short, if it has not in fact already run out. I don’t know how long ago Google’s street views were taken.
The report on theater construction in 1975 that was published in the May 3, 1976, issue of Boxoffice listed the 1,544-seat Saratoga Six opened at San Jose by American Multi Cinema.
The report on theater construction in 1975 that was published in the May 3, 1976, issue of Boxoffice listed a house at Los Banos called Cinema I & II, opened by Tom Graff. I wonder if that could have been this theater?
I also wonder of the Tom Graff mentioned was the attorney who was a long-time environmental activist in the central valley and state director of the Environmental Defense Fund. He might have built the theater as an investment.
The report on theater construction in 1975 that was published in Boxoffice of May 3, 1976, listed a 200-seat house in Stuttgart called the Cinema which had been opened by a Dr. John Miller. Could that have been the origin of this theater?
The report on new theater construction in 1975 that was published in the May 3, 1976, issue of Boxoffice listed a house (mistakenly listed in Little Rock) called the Other Center Twin, opened with 500 seats by an outfit called Theatre Presentations. I think it might have been the origin of this multiplex.
If this house was in the Breckenridge Village shopping center, then it was probably the quad that UA opened in 1975. That project was listed in the 1975 new theater construction report that was published in Boxoffice of May 3, 1976. The report didn’t say if it was entirely new construction or a remodeling/expansion of an earlier house, but UA was building a lot of new quads in the mid-1970s.
The report on new theaters built in 1975 that ran in the May 3, 1976, issue of Boxoffice listed The Plaza, a 700-seat triplex at Yuma opened by Great Western Theatres.
The May 20, 1975, issue of The Yuma Daily Sun said that a benefit premier would be held Thursday night (May 22) with a showing of The Four Musketeers. The Friday night grand opening would feature The Great Waldo Pepper in one of the larger auditoriums and The Godfather Part II in the other. The small, 120-seat auditorium would open with A Woman Under the Influence.
Judging from street view, it looks like the building had an addition at one point, on the W. 15th Place side, so the two additional screens that brought the total to five were probably in that. I don’t know what the final seat count was.
Looking at the opening day schedule, it strikes me that one of the four auditoriums simply might not have been ready for use yet. Back in single-screen days if there was a construction or equipment-related delay, the theater’s opening would have to be postponed, but with this quad the grand opening could have been done on schedule with three screens while the workers finished up whatever had to be done in the fourth auditorium.
Commemorating this vanished theater, the Sedona Public Library now presents a free film series called Flicker Shack Movie Mondays, screened in the library’s Si Birch Community Room.
Opened on August 21, 1975, the rustic style, 300-seat Flicker Shack was Sedona’s first movie theater, though by that time the town and surrounding countryside had been used as the location for more than a hundred movie productions. Boxoffice featured an illustrated article about the Flicker Shack in its issue of February 16, 1976.