Chief Theatre
4650 S. 24th Street,
Omaha,
NE
68107
4650 S. 24th Street,
Omaha,
NE
68107
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Is there any way to get a list of employees of the Chief Theater from 1948?
The Chief Theatre was owned by the Blank Family in Omaha. They also owned the Admiral & Sky View Drive In theatres which also were torn down after the Chief was torn down. They also owned the Jet-O-Space gas station right below the Sky View Drive In on 72nd & Hartman St. When I was in Jr. High at Bancroft Jr. High I was a ticket taker at the Chief & when I was in high school at South High, I was a projectionist at the Chief & Admirel theatres. When the Chief was first built, it was considered very high tech for it’s time as the projection equipment was state of the art for it’s time. Also it was a beautiful theatre with it’s wall murals in the theatre. Years ago they even used to perform weddings on the stage of the theatre. Up on the second floor where the ladies rest room was, they even had a glass enclosed room which was called the “cry room” for people with noisy or crying kids. I have a lot of great memories from those days. Alan
I saw many films their in the 60’s & early 70’s as a kid. Sinbad the Sailor, Billy’s got the Beat, Good,Bad,Ugly, Biker films, James Bond Thunderball, Equinox, Diamonds are Forever, A Man called Horse, What’s New ########,Support Your Local Sheriff,Billy Jack,. In junior high sat with girlfriends and necked. The manager could be crusty but was probally tired of chasing the kids around the place. I alway got Junior Mints and usually a Baby Ruth. I have a picture from a Omaha World Herald photo. Maybe I will post it someday. It was a great place to build memomories and I miss it greatly.
My Uncle used to manage the Chief in the 1960’s. I spend a lot of Saturdays there watching Clint Eastwood, James Bond and Frankie Avalon and horror movies there. When they shut it down he moved to the Admiral.
My cousin and my brother and I would sit near the back row and my Uncle would stop in and sit behind us. He would say the lines before the actors. Used to drive us nuts. But he was a great guy and I miss him still.
The theater was a great showplace. The screen was bigger than the mall places but it wasn’t one of the giant screens like Indian Hills or the old Fox.