Fox Theatre
1116-1128 Main Street,
Stevens Point,
WI
54481
1116-1128 Main Street,
Stevens Point,
WI
54481
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Apparently the owners have given permission for the marquee to be used for asvertising,when I was last downtown the marquee was advertsing a dog park opening in Stevens Point
Awesome :)
I hope it all works with this project.
I no longer in the area I now live in Beloit Wis.
Here is a new article for those who haven’t seen it already except they got the closing year wrong and do not acknowledge that Jeanette Sanders is deceased
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Can anyone direct me to a group active in restoration efforts or involved somehow in the politics of it all?
thanks
I was just looking at the scan for historical registry and about the mall being uilt and having a pedestrian linking the city proposed demolition does that mean they wanted to tear down the whole theater or just the part that they did tear down? if it was full demolition then it’s no wonder why the owners were so angry and bitter
The marquee they are using now which is on sometimes is supposed to be a replica of the old one,would love to hear some of your memories of movies you saw at the fox and what the inside was like anything you wish to share
Does anyone remember if the lights on the Fox marquee (that ran along the bottom and up the side) remained constantly on or did they do a “chase” type of arrangement? Been to that theater so many times back in the 70’s, but can’t remember what that row of incandescents did, if anything.
I’m in the planning stages of creating a replica of that theater for my HO scale layout. The marquee will be the difficult part.
Anyone have any dimensions of the marquee?
Thanks for any input.
Dale K.
Thanks by the way
Have we seen everything you are donating on this site? if not could you kindly provide a link to your submissions?
I just donated all of research on the Fox Theater and other other local theater to the University Archives.
It will eventually be open to the general public. (They are refilling it into folders so it could take awhile.)
This is the Archives web site:
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Very interesting Ed,where did you find tbat?
I just came across this website, and I’m happy to see that so many people are interested in reopening the Fox Theater and the progress that has been made. Fixing up the marquee is a big deal because nothing had been done to the theater in all the time I lived there since the time it was closed. Although I don’t live in WI anymore and the last time I visited Stevens Point was in 2002, I grew up there and went to the Fox Theater up until I was about 10 years old.
I think I saw Annie and maybe some Tom & Jerry cartoons there. I remember that the balcony was always closed and that there were bats that swooped down at us every so often. And it was really cold. I didn’t know at the time that it had to do with a dispute with the city, until now. While I lived in Stevens Point, I had always heard the rumor that the owner refused to do anything with the theater once it got closed but I never knew why until now. I didn’t like the mall when it first got built and even while I lived there, but since it did get built, there’s no reason why the owner shouldn’t try and do something with the theater and improve the downtown for the greater good of the community.
If the owner did pass way, I think the way to find out who’s the current owner is by looking the information up at the assessor’s office or the register of deeds for Portage County. That info usually is public information.
Added more to flickr account.
anything new pics,listing,etc? Ed,anything on your end?
I checked that obit….I’m pretty sure she would be the owner of the Fox like you mentioned, since Jeanette Andrae Sanders is how the obit read, and Andrae was the name of the man who built the Fox in 1894.
Probably goes to her children. Maybe now we will start to see things happen with the place. Who knows…. BTW, the marquee is on again, it’s been awhile since I’ve seen it lit.
I read in one of last weeks Stevens Point Journals that Jeanette Sanders passed away on October 10th…isn’t she the one who owns the Fox? I wonder what becomes of the theater now.
On January 10, 1965 there was a boom threat was phoned in during a movie at the Fox. The building was evacuated; it turned out to be a hoax. (Stevens Point Daily Journal January 12, 1956 page 4)
Just added some new photos;
http://www.flickr.com/photos/edwilke/
just checking up on the site anything new? Pics,old movie listings,anything?
very interesting! Keep up the good work Ed :)
Here is a list of movies played at the Fox Theater, July 1, 1984 to December 31, 1984.
WSPT and Graham-Lane Music held a mid-summer late night movies. They were Friday and Saturday at 11:30. (They will be marked as WSPT/Graham-Lane.)
WSPT and Rogers Fox Theater held a late night theater. They were usually on Friday and Saturday. (They will be marked as WSPT/Fox.)
There were holiday movie matinees the last week of November to December 23rd. They were on Saturday (11:00 am and 1:30 pm) and Sunday (1:30 pm).
Gremlins
July 1st-5th
Ghostbusters
July 6th-August 16th
WSPT/Graham-Lane
Animal House
July 6th and 7th
WSPT/Graham-Lane
Young Frankenstein
July 13th and 14th
WSPT/Graham-Lane
Strange Brew
July 20th, 21st, and 31st
WSPT/Graham-Lane
Trading Places
July 28th
WSPT/Graham-Lane
Night Shift
August 3rd and 4th
WSPT/Graham-Lane
MASH
August 10th and 11th
Sheena
August 17th-30th
(August 24th-30th early movie before Red Dawn)
Red Dawn
August 24th-30th
Adult double feature
Purely Physical
Undercovers
August 31st-September 6th
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
September 7th-13th
The Philadelphia Experiment
September 14th-20th
Double Future
Hollywood Hot Tubs
Ninja 3
September 21st-27th
Children’s matinee
The Smurfs and The Magic Flute
September 22nd and 23rd
Romancing The Stone
September 28th-October 11th
Adult movie
Bodies in Heat
October 12th-18th
Thief Of Hearts
October 19th-November 1st
WSPT/Fox
The Exorcist
October 26th, 27th, and 31st
Double Future
Bachelor Party
Revenge Of The Nerds
November 2nd-8th
WSPT/Fox
Three Stooges Festival
November 2nd, 3rd, and 4th
Gremlins
November 9th-15th
WSPT/Fox
Streets Of Fire
November 9th and 10th
Phar Lap
November 16th-20th
A Nightmare On Elm Street
November 21st-29th
Holiday movie matinees
Annie
November 23rd, 24th, and 25th
A Christmas Story
November 30th-December 6th
Holiday movie matinees
The Champ
December 1st and 2nd
2010
December 7th-31st
(December 28th-31st played before Falling in Love)
Holiday movie matinees
Tom & Jerry Cartoon Festival
December 8th and 9th
Holiday movie matinees
The Black Stallion Returns
December 15th and 16th
Holiday movie matinees
Clash Of The Titans
December 22nd and 23rd
Falling In Love
December 28th-31st
(2010 played before Falling In Love)
I just met my new next door neighbor who grew up in the stevens point area who saw Gremlins at the Fox Theater and she also was saying that she remembered that there were bats flying around in the fox theater and one swooped right over her sisters head! I thought it was cool that she got to see the fox theater and I also thought it was very interesting to know that the Fox had bats flying around she also mentioned when she had gone there the balcony had been closed because it was structrally unstable,she also remembered the theater decorated in white and gold
“Resurrecting the downtown would start with the Fox….”
That it would, that it would! Probably about 98% of Stevens Point residents would also agree…
The last time I saw any activity around the place was shortly after New Years, when I saw some moving vans parked out front moving projection and sound equipment into the place. The lights under the canopy are usually on at night, but it’s been several months since I’ve seen the marquee lit up (but it’s still super to have a working marquee finally!)