Comments from DavidZornig

I added the vintage and current photos to the Photo Sections crediting Danyel Brenner. So they don’t disappear after the Go Fund Me page expires.

This link highlights a fundraising effort to purchase a digital projector, repair and reopen the Midway. The article says the Midway was built in 1916, and will be celebrating it’s 100th anniversary. So maybe the 1923 date should be changed in the Overview. Copy & paste to view.

http://www.9news.com/story/news/local/storytellers/2015/05/31/burlington-movie-theater-our-hometown-charitable-foundation/28287391/

Past realty listings show it as having been built in 1930. But it didn’t open as a theater until 1941.

Below link updates it’s future use, with a replica of it’s original marquee. Copy & paste to view.

http://www.theoaklandpress.com/general-news/20150522/a-sign-of-the-times-1941-is-back-up-in-clawson-at-former-movie-theater

1955 photo added courtesy of AmeriCar The Beautiful Facebook page.

Below website also has multiple images of The Beverly. Copy & paste to view.

https://sites.google.com/site/wilshiremoviepalaces/beverly-theatre

Circa 1940 photo added courtesy of Stephen Gennerich.

Added several photos via the Old Minneapolis Facebook page. Credited individually where possible.

1977 photo added, credit William Burleson, who worked there at the time.

1972 photo added courtesy of Mike Evangelist.

Winter `68 partial marquee photo added. Photo credit Denny Schwartz, courtesy of Gary Schwartz.

Incredible December 1928 photo as the Colony added courtesy of the Eyes Of A Generation.com Facebook page.

Hammerstein Theatre, now the Ed Sullivan Theatre in the background. Below copy/history of the Hammerstein also courtesy of the Eyes Of A Generation.com Facebook page.

Tomorrow is David Letterman’s last day in this grand theater that was built in 1927. This photo shows “Good Boy” playing at what was then The Hammerstein Theater in December of 1928. The famous song at this link was first performed here and was the first “hit” event in the theater’s history. https://youtu.be/rI275t9BNJo?t=42s

The song is “I Want To Be Loved By You.” and is sung by Helen Kane, who’s voice and style was the inspiration for the famous cartoon character Betty Boop. In 1931, bankruptcy forced the sale, and the theater was bought by Billy Rose. After a few more years of legitimate theater ventures, Rose entered a long term lease with CBS in 1936. The debut radio show from here was “The Major Bowes Amateur Hour,” and the venue was known as CBS Radio Playhouse.

In 1950, the theater was converted to television and became CBS Studio 50. The first big production from Studio 50 was “The Jackie Gleason Show” in the fall of 1950. In ‘52, Ed Sullivan’s “Toast Of The Town” show was moved from The Maxine Elliot Theater to Studio 50, and joined Gleason there. Tomorrow night, another chapter ends, and a new one will begin again soon at 1697 Broadway.

Better copy of the 1932 postcard added, courtesy of Darlene Van Horn. “Flesh” starring Wallace Beery on the marquee.

Several 1970’s photos and a vintage postcard of the Rafael as the Orpheus added.