Here is an item from Boxoffice magazine, September 1946:
LOS ANGELES-Simultaneous with the new season’s product announcement by Universal-International, the Fox West Coast has perfected details of its realignment of first-run houses here so as to furnish an established local showcase outlet for the output of the newly formed production company.
Effective about September 20, U-I films will be booked on a first-run, day-date basis at the Guild, United Artists, Ritz, Iris and Studio City theaters. The latter two houses heretofore have been subsequent-run outlets and are being redecorated and refurbished to become members of the first-string lineup.
At about the same time, a fourth showcase, the Loyola, will be added to the Chinese, State and Uptown, with the four houses to book 20th Century Fox product.
PHILADELPHIA-Sam Cummins announced that his new house, the Pix, will be ready to open some time in November. It will seat 499, and will operate as a first-run house. Cummins said the cost of the project, started two years ago, has tripled, and will now cost from $250,000 to $300,000 when it is completed.
The house will contain the latest in modern equipment, with the cooling system as the highlight. Several new wrinkles have been worked into structure of the one-floor building. Architects are Roth and Fleisher.
PHILADELPHIA-Assistant manager Richard Liberton of the Rex Theater was accosted by an armed assailant as he was taking the night’s receipts to the bank. The man approached Liberton from the rear, stuck a gun in his neck and demanded the money. When Liberton refused, the gunman struck him with the weapon and fled with about $100.
Another armed bandit held up the box office of the Crescent Theater. He opened the door of the cashier’s booth and waved a gun at 16-year-old Eleanor Difato, who, terrified, handed over $300, the contents of the cash drawer.
Here is an item from Boxoffice magazine in November 1970:
The owner of the Selvil Theater in Sellersville, Herman Haines of Philadelphia, hopes to sell the showhouse to someone who would like to break into the exhibition business. The Selvil was damaged by fire last February. The nearest theaters are four miles away in Quakertown and Souderton.
Plans have been completed for the erection of an elaborate theater marquee at the United Artists. This new improvement is to be installed by Friday when Ronald Colman’s new picture, “The Unholy Garden” is scheduled to open.
The new canopy sign will strike a new note in this type of architecture, it is said, being all in one color and being lighted by a combination of neon tubular and flasher incandescents.
Eddie Cantor’s latest comedy, “Palmy Days”, which started its third week at the United Artists yesterday, will have its final showings Thursday.
This is part of an LA Times article dated 7/20/30:
Known in its heyday as a “cradle for actors', the old Morosco Theater, more recently the President, will become a motion-picture playhouse in the next thirty days. The theater, built eighteen years ago for Oliver Morosco, has been leased to Fox West Coast Theaters to become Los Angeles' first newsreel theater. In the next few days, workmen will enter the old building for purposes of refurbishing the interior, perhaps to tear out the old fashioned boxes and to install sound-picture projection equipment.
Under the Fox West Coast regime, it will show only newsreels. Programs will run around fifty minutes and will change as fast as new shots of important international, national and local events arrive. It will bear the title “Newsreel Theater”.
This short film used to precede the features at the Denville in the early 1950s. The theater can be seen in the last fifteen seconds or so, if you want to fast forward through the rest of it: http://tinyurl.com/aks6co
CHICAGO-Irving Cooper’s Mayfair, 300-seat house on the southwest side, and Schoenstadt’s Pix on the south side have both been closed for the remainder of the summer.
SPRING VALLEY, ILL.-The Valley, closed for renovation, is slated to reopen around August 15. Approximately $10,000 is being spent for interior and exterior improvements. George Denby is manager.
SAN LEANDRO, CALIF.-The Golden State circuit opened its new 1,100 seat Del Mar Theater here August 1 as the 96th house to become part of the chain. Glenn Caldwell is the manager.
Here are two February 2009 photos:
http://tinyurl.com/ag5ufo
http://tinyurl.com/b55o3k
Here is a February 2009 photo:
http://tinyurl.com/bkcmle
Here is a February 2009 photo:
http://tinyurl.com/cs88ok
Here is the Roxie sizzling in the February heat of Los Angeles:
http://tinyurl.com/cjblpc
That sounds interesting. I have to work on Saturday, or I would be there. Take some good photos for me.
Here is a 2/1/09 article from the Arizona Star:
http://tinyurl.com/dgo285
Here is an item from Boxoffice magazine, September 1946:
LOS ANGELES-Simultaneous with the new season’s product announcement by Universal-International, the Fox West Coast has perfected details of its realignment of first-run houses here so as to furnish an established local showcase outlet for the output of the newly formed production company.
Effective about September 20, U-I films will be booked on a first-run, day-date basis at the Guild, United Artists, Ritz, Iris and Studio City theaters. The latter two houses heretofore have been subsequent-run outlets and are being redecorated and refurbished to become members of the first-string lineup.
At about the same time, a fourth showcase, the Loyola, will be added to the Chinese, State and Uptown, with the four houses to book 20th Century Fox product.
Thanks.
This is from the same source in September 1946:
PHILADELPHIA-Sam Cummins announced that his new house, the Pix, will be ready to open some time in November. It will seat 499, and will operate as a first-run house. Cummins said the cost of the project, started two years ago, has tripled, and will now cost from $250,000 to $300,000 when it is completed.
The house will contain the latest in modern equipment, with the cooling system as the highlight. Several new wrinkles have been worked into structure of the one-floor building. Architects are Roth and Fleisher.
This is from Boxoffice magazine, September 1946:
PHILADELPHIA-Assistant manager Richard Liberton of the Rex Theater was accosted by an armed assailant as he was taking the night’s receipts to the bank. The man approached Liberton from the rear, stuck a gun in his neck and demanded the money. When Liberton refused, the gunman struck him with the weapon and fled with about $100.
Another armed bandit held up the box office of the Crescent Theater. He opened the door of the cashier’s booth and waved a gun at 16-year-old Eleanor Difato, who, terrified, handed over $300, the contents of the cash drawer.
Here is an item from Boxoffice magazine in November 1970:
The owner of the Selvil Theater in Sellersville, Herman Haines of Philadelphia, hopes to sell the showhouse to someone who would like to break into the exhibition business. The Selvil was damaged by fire last February. The nearest theaters are four miles away in Quakertown and Souderton.
This was in the LA Times on October 24, 1931:
Plans have been completed for the erection of an elaborate theater marquee at the United Artists. This new improvement is to be installed by Friday when Ronald Colman’s new picture, “The Unholy Garden” is scheduled to open.
The new canopy sign will strike a new note in this type of architecture, it is said, being all in one color and being lighted by a combination of neon tubular and flasher incandescents.
Eddie Cantor’s latest comedy, “Palmy Days”, which started its third week at the United Artists yesterday, will have its final showings Thursday.
This is part of an LA Times article dated 7/20/30:
Known in its heyday as a “cradle for actors', the old Morosco Theater, more recently the President, will become a motion-picture playhouse in the next thirty days. The theater, built eighteen years ago for Oliver Morosco, has been leased to Fox West Coast Theaters to become Los Angeles' first newsreel theater. In the next few days, workmen will enter the old building for purposes of refurbishing the interior, perhaps to tear out the old fashioned boxes and to install sound-picture projection equipment.
Under the Fox West Coast regime, it will show only newsreels. Programs will run around fifty minutes and will change as fast as new shots of important international, national and local events arrive. It will bear the title “Newsreel Theater”.
Adios:
http://tinyurl.com/ah23dn
Some locals suggest new names for the Garden, from an article of April 2007:
http://tinyurl.com/b62c32
Here is some recent news about the marquee:
http://www.sacbee.com/345/story/1578496.html
Here is a photo, circa 1940:
http://tinyurl.com/acc6sw
This short film used to precede the features at the Denville in the early 1950s. The theater can be seen in the last fifteen seconds or so, if you want to fast forward through the rest of it:
http://tinyurl.com/aks6co
Opening was in July 1969, according to ads in the Northwest Arkansas Times. It was a Commonwealth theater at that time.
Per drive-ins.com, the theater has been razed and replaced by a Wal-Mart. Status should be closed/demolished.
http://www.drive-ins.com/theater/art62dr
This is from Boxoffice magazine in August 1941:
CHICAGO-Irving Cooper’s Mayfair, 300-seat house on the southwest side, and Schoenstadt’s Pix on the south side have both been closed for the remainder of the summer.
This is from Boxoffice magazine in August 1941:
SPRING VALLEY, ILL.-The Valley, closed for renovation, is slated to reopen around August 15. Approximately $10,000 is being spent for interior and exterior improvements. George Denby is manager.
This is from Boxoffice magazine, 8/2/41:
SAN LEANDRO, CALIF.-The Golden State circuit opened its new 1,100 seat Del Mar Theater here August 1 as the 96th house to become part of the chain. Glenn Caldwell is the manager.
Do you mean Sansom Street? I don’t remember any Sampson in Center City.
Here is some recent renovation news:
http://tinyurl.com/dmxhwg