Doug
I lived at 7 East 110th Pace and then about 1950 moved to 11650 Wallace St. I left in 1956 when I joined the Navy. My last time back there was 2 years ago. Roseland has gone through a war and still is!!!
John Stitnizky
I know what you mean Doug. It’s a shame people choose to live like animals and destroy everything. Roseland was a great place to grow up in the 40’s. Now I doubt if you would live long enough there to grow up!
John Stitnizky
Las Vegas
Another theater in Roseland area (West Pullman) which hs sucumbed to the terrible blight of a ghetto. I lived on 116th and Wallace for many year )1950 until joining the Navy in 1956) and attended this theater on a few occasions. It was a great little neighborhood movie house
Memories! Used to go to the Roseland on Saturday mornings as a kid in the 1940’s. 9 cents for admission, popcorn 5 cents and a soda from the machine another 5 cents (soda was 10 cents at concession stand). If I walked both ways from 110th place instead of taking the street car down Michigan Avenue I would have enough left for a candy bar also. 10 cartoons, a serial like Rocket Man which continued from week to week, and a shootem up cowboy movie which was sometimes mixed in with a science fiction movie like The Lost World.
Plus “Two Ton Bakers” double seat on right hand side, middle area of the theater.
John Stitnizky
I grew up in Roseland 2 blocks from the State and Parkway theaters. I still remember the little window next to the Parkway where a handicapped vendor would sell popcorn and peanuts. There was also a soda shop right next door. Alas, they are all gone now, along with the Roseland and Normal theaters (Normal burnt down sometime in the 70’s. The entire area has noe become a terrible ghetto.
I lived around the corner from the State Theater on 110th Place until 1950. I still remeber begging my mother for a quarter to see movies and my first daye (?) at about the age of 10 was there. Brings back many great memories of my childhood and the last time I was in Chicago in early 1992 I made a point of driving down Michigan Avenue. What has happened to this part of Chicago is a terrible shame! I have seen better looking areas in Hiroshima
Doug
I lived at 7 East 110th Pace and then about 1950 moved to 11650 Wallace St. I left in 1956 when I joined the Navy. My last time back there was 2 years ago. Roseland has gone through a war and still is!!!
John Stitnizky
I know what you mean Doug. It’s a shame people choose to live like animals and destroy everything. Roseland was a great place to grow up in the 40’s. Now I doubt if you would live long enough there to grow up!
John Stitnizky
Las Vegas
Another theater in Roseland area (West Pullman) which hs sucumbed to the terrible blight of a ghetto. I lived on 116th and Wallace for many year )1950 until joining the Navy in 1956) and attended this theater on a few occasions. It was a great little neighborhood movie house
Memories! Used to go to the Roseland on Saturday mornings as a kid in the 1940’s. 9 cents for admission, popcorn 5 cents and a soda from the machine another 5 cents (soda was 10 cents at concession stand). If I walked both ways from 110th place instead of taking the street car down Michigan Avenue I would have enough left for a candy bar also. 10 cartoons, a serial like Rocket Man which continued from week to week, and a shootem up cowboy movie which was sometimes mixed in with a science fiction movie like The Lost World.
Plus “Two Ton Bakers” double seat on right hand side, middle area of the theater.
John Stitnizky
I grew up in Roseland 2 blocks from the State and Parkway theaters. I still remember the little window next to the Parkway where a handicapped vendor would sell popcorn and peanuts. There was also a soda shop right next door. Alas, they are all gone now, along with the Roseland and Normal theaters (Normal burnt down sometime in the 70’s. The entire area has noe become a terrible ghetto.
I lived around the corner from the State Theater on 110th Place until 1950. I still remeber begging my mother for a quarter to see movies and my first daye (?) at about the age of 10 was there. Brings back many great memories of my childhood and the last time I was in Chicago in early 1992 I made a point of driving down Michigan Avenue. What has happened to this part of Chicago is a terrible shame! I have seen better looking areas in Hiroshima