I don’t think this is the Childress theater, but I would be curious to know the identity of this place. The photo is circa 1960s. It seems like I’ve seen that marquee before, but I don’t know where. http://tinyurl.com/c6z4lo
Here is a part of a 1/14/73 article in the Chicago News Journal:
In 1913 when most neighborhood movie houses were simply converted stores with folding chairs to accommodate patrons and the price of admission was five cents, the newly opened 800-seat Tiffin theater on North avenue just east of Karlov, was regarded as one of the finest outlying movie theaters in the entire city.
This week, beginning Friday, Jan. 19, the Tiffin theater is celebrating its 60th anniversary and is turning the clock back many, many years by offering moviegoers a rare bargain, an admission price of just 60 cents for a double feature. Two excellent films, “Butterflies are Free” and “The Burglar,” will be shown during the anniversary week beginning Friday and continuing through Thursday, Jan. 25.
Partners in the building of the Tiffin theater 60 years ago were William J. Clark, realtor and attorney; George Kappus, a Northwest Side druggist and Vincent T. Lynch, who served as manager of the theater. Right from the start business boomed and moviegoers flocked by the hundreds to the “showplace of the Northwest Side.” It was soon apparent that the building was too small to adequately serve the growing numbers of movie fans, so owners Clark, Kappus and Lynch made plans for a bigger theater. They acquired property at the corner of North Karlov, just west of the original theater building. Taking their cue from the grandiose movie palaces then being constructed in the Loop, the partners built the present Tiffin theater with seating for more than 2,200 patrons.
Looking back over the years, owner Jack Clark, son of William J., one of the original partners in the enterprise, said. “The Tiffin, since the day it opened in 1913 has continued to operate through wars, the big depression, recessions, inflation, the advent of radio and television and lastly, x-rated movies and has survived it all. The reason the Tiffin survived when many others went down the drain has been our policy of offering the best in family movie entertainment at the lowest possible prices. Also, we never gave in to the current fad of showing pornographic, x-rated movies. Our patrons feel they can come to the Tiffin and not be offended by the movies on our screen.â€
Here is part of a 1958 conspiracy complaint by Paradise:
Paradise Theatre Building Corporation brought action against Fox West Coast Theatres Corporation, Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation and Loew’s, Incorporated, and also against Paramount, Warner’s and Universal, against none of which the jury returned a verdict. The complaint was based upon an alleged conspiracy resulting in the uniform refusal of all defendants to license motion pictures to Paradise on Los Angeles first run. The conspiracy among all defendants was alleged to have resulted also in a coordinated refusal to license a seven-day run in Inglewood and Westchester, and that Paradise was injured thereby. A trial was held where there was a voluminous record.
The jury returned a verdict against defendants Fox West Coast Theatres Corporation, Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation and Loew’s, Incorporated, in the sum of $ 20,000.00. This appeal is from a final judgment against defendants last named for the treble damages in the amount of $ 60,000.00 and $ 10,000.00, attorney fees, and $ 1,657.69 costs.
The Paradise Theatre was located in the Westchester district. The Loyola Theatre, of Fox, was located less than a half mile away. Loyola exhibited Fox pictures on the Los Angeles first run day and date with Grauman’s Chinese, in Hollywood, Los Angeles, in the downtown area, and Wilshire and Uptown theatres, in the Wilshire district, all of which were Fox theatres. Before Paradise and La Tijera, a theatre which was also located in the Westchester district of Los Angeles, were built, Loew’s did not license a seven-day run to any theatre in the City of Los Angeles except in the faraway sections of San Pedro and Wilmington. Its practice was to offer a twenty-one-day run in the urban area. In Inglewood, a section merging into Westwood, it licensed a single seven-day run. After La Tijera and Paradise were built, Loew’s offered Paradise a twenty-one-day run without bidding. All defendants uniformly refused to license motion pictures to Paradise Los Angeles first run. Paradise demanded the right to license a nonexclusive seven-day run without bidding against other theatres in the general area. All defendants refused this demand.
Before 1949, where were four motion picture theatres in Inglewood and Westchester, including the Loyola. Within twenty months, there were constructed six additional theatres, including Paradise and La Tijera and the Fox in downtown Inglewood.
The jury found a conspiracy between Fox West Coast, Twentieth Century-Fox and Loew’s to refuse to Paradise a right to license a nonexclusive seven-day run without competitive bidding between September 18, 1950, and September 17, 1951.
Artist’s conception from a January 2009 blog:
http://tinyurl.com/dfzagd
No, you didn’t. I posted that for the Lux in New Mexico. Some crossed wires, I guess.
Looks a lot better there than when I saw it a few years ago.
I don’t think this is the Childress theater, but I would be curious to know the identity of this place. The photo is circa 1960s. It seems like I’ve seen that marquee before, but I don’t know where.
http://tinyurl.com/c6z4lo
1924 ad on Central Pier can be seen here:
http://tinyurl.com/dxmago
Here is a 1912 photo from Duke University archives:
http://tinyurl.com/dd8lge
Here is a 1983 photo:
http://tinyurl.com/d2mr6f
Here is a 1983 photo:
http://tinyurl.com/cg9vkt
Here are photos from 1980 and 1986:
http://tinyurl.com/dkb88p
http://tinyurl.com/dmkuo8
Here is a 1986 photo:
http://tinyurl.com/cyquvh
Here is a 1983 photo:
http://tinyurl.com/d4mxnn
Here is the Macomb undergoing renovation in 1982:
http://tinyurl.com/cleptg
Here is a 1957 photo:
http://tinyurl.com/dafdq8
Here is a 1922 photo:
http://tinyurl.com/dcznkv
These photos are dated 1965, 1982 and 1983:
http://tinyurl.com/cz5suo
http://tinyurl.com/db6qn6
http://tinyurl.com/cjzfe7
http://tinyurl.com/cnm3af
This may be the image Bryan was referring to in 2005:
http://tinyurl.com/ck8jvr
Here is a 1984 photo:
http://tinyurl.com/c8rahb
Here is a 1983 photo:
http://tinyurl.com/cgwa2d
Here is a 1984 photo. The late Marilyn Chambers was headlining:
http://tinyurl.com/cpuyls
Here are photos dated 1979 and 1982:
http://tinyurl.com/d9qkmr
http://tinyurl.com/cy2pqj
Here are two 1983 photos:
http://tinyurl.com/celd5k
http://tinyurl.com/d2uj9c
Here is a part of a 1/14/73 article in the Chicago News Journal:
In 1913 when most neighborhood movie houses were simply converted stores with folding chairs to accommodate patrons and the price of admission was five cents, the newly opened 800-seat Tiffin theater on North avenue just east of Karlov, was regarded as one of the finest outlying movie theaters in the entire city.
This week, beginning Friday, Jan. 19, the Tiffin theater is celebrating its 60th anniversary and is turning the clock back many, many years by offering moviegoers a rare bargain, an admission price of just 60 cents for a double feature. Two excellent films, “Butterflies are Free” and “The Burglar,” will be shown during the anniversary week beginning Friday and continuing through Thursday, Jan. 25.
Partners in the building of the Tiffin theater 60 years ago were William J. Clark, realtor and attorney; George Kappus, a Northwest Side druggist and Vincent T. Lynch, who served as manager of the theater. Right from the start business boomed and moviegoers flocked by the hundreds to the “showplace of the Northwest Side.” It was soon apparent that the building was too small to adequately serve the growing numbers of movie fans, so owners Clark, Kappus and Lynch made plans for a bigger theater. They acquired property at the corner of North Karlov, just west of the original theater building. Taking their cue from the grandiose movie palaces then being constructed in the Loop, the partners built the present Tiffin theater with seating for more than 2,200 patrons.
Looking back over the years, owner Jack Clark, son of William J., one of the original partners in the enterprise, said. “The Tiffin, since the day it opened in 1913 has continued to operate through wars, the big depression, recessions, inflation, the advent of radio and television and lastly, x-rated movies and has survived it all. The reason the Tiffin survived when many others went down the drain has been our policy of offering the best in family movie entertainment at the lowest possible prices. Also, we never gave in to the current fad of showing pornographic, x-rated movies. Our patrons feel they can come to the Tiffin and not be offended by the movies on our screen.â€
Here is part of a 1958 conspiracy complaint by Paradise:
Paradise Theatre Building Corporation brought action against Fox West Coast Theatres Corporation, Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation and Loew’s, Incorporated, and also against Paramount, Warner’s and Universal, against none of which the jury returned a verdict. The complaint was based upon an alleged conspiracy resulting in the uniform refusal of all defendants to license motion pictures to Paradise on Los Angeles first run. The conspiracy among all defendants was alleged to have resulted also in a coordinated refusal to license a seven-day run in Inglewood and Westchester, and that Paradise was injured thereby. A trial was held where there was a voluminous record.
The jury returned a verdict against defendants Fox West Coast Theatres Corporation, Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation and Loew’s, Incorporated, in the sum of $ 20,000.00. This appeal is from a final judgment against defendants last named for the treble damages in the amount of $ 60,000.00 and $ 10,000.00, attorney fees, and $ 1,657.69 costs.
The Paradise Theatre was located in the Westchester district. The Loyola Theatre, of Fox, was located less than a half mile away. Loyola exhibited Fox pictures on the Los Angeles first run day and date with Grauman’s Chinese, in Hollywood, Los Angeles, in the downtown area, and Wilshire and Uptown theatres, in the Wilshire district, all of which were Fox theatres. Before Paradise and La Tijera, a theatre which was also located in the Westchester district of Los Angeles, were built, Loew’s did not license a seven-day run to any theatre in the City of Los Angeles except in the faraway sections of San Pedro and Wilmington. Its practice was to offer a twenty-one-day run in the urban area. In Inglewood, a section merging into Westwood, it licensed a single seven-day run. After La Tijera and Paradise were built, Loew’s offered Paradise a twenty-one-day run without bidding. All defendants uniformly refused to license motion pictures to Paradise Los Angeles first run. Paradise demanded the right to license a nonexclusive seven-day run without bidding against other theatres in the general area. All defendants refused this demand.
Before 1949, where were four motion picture theatres in Inglewood and Westchester, including the Loyola. Within twenty months, there were constructed six additional theatres, including Paradise and La Tijera and the Fox in downtown Inglewood.
The jury found a conspiracy between Fox West Coast, Twentieth Century-Fox and Loew’s to refuse to Paradise a right to license a nonexclusive seven-day run without competitive bidding between September 18, 1950, and September 17, 1951.
The Klan comes to Long Branch, August 1924:
http://tinyurl.com/ck588x
Rest in peace, Marilyn Chambers. An icon in her own way.
Here are two 1982 photos:
http://tinyurl.com/d9z67w
http://tinyurl.com/da97sz