If the link holds, this page of Boxoffice, June 21, 1941, shows two photos of the Lake Theatre. The facade was plain brick above the marquee. The streamlined ground floor front looks like it was done in Vitrolite or one of the other glass tiles popular around that time. The building was much narrower than the theater in the photo we’re currently seeing at the top of our page, as can also be seen by the Boxoffice photo of the Lake’s auditorium. I don’t know the location of the Lake Theatre in the photo robboehm uploaded, but it wasn’t the Lake in Canandaigua.
The bank annex Estey_Struble_Theatrical mentioned as being on the site of the Lake Theatre has the address 60-70 above its door, so the theater’s address was probably about 64. The bank’s main office next door to the south is at 72 S. Main and the Renaissance Goodie II Shoppe next door to the north is at 56 S. Main. The theater should be listed as demolished, of course.
The August 7, 1915, issue of The Moving Picture World had this item about the new theater planned at Sewickley:
“The Sewlckley Amusement Company is erecting a new $30,000 motion picture house at Sewickley, Pa., located on Beaver street. William R. Wheat, Jr., manager of the company, announces that this house will be 43x119 feet, and will have a seating capacity of 500. It is expected to be completed and ready for opening about the 1st of September. The Lyric theater, in Sewickley, is also conducted by this same company and it will continue the same after the completion of the new house. The name of the new house has not yet been decided upon.
I haven’t discovered if Mr. Wheat achieved his goal of opening the new theater around the first of September.
This item from the May 3, 1919, issue of The Moving Picture World is most likely about the Coraopolis Theatre:
“Splendid Theatre for Coraopolis.
“William R. Wheat, Jr., exhibitor of Sewickley, has purchased a site in Fifth avenue, Coraopolis, on which he will erect a photoplay house with a seating capacity of 1,000, to cost in the neighborhood of $75,000. Architects are now preparing the plans, and work on the structure will be commenced shortly. The decorations, lighting effects and ventilation system will be of the very latest types.”
An advertisement in the May 7, 1921, issue of The Moving Picture World featured a letter from William Wheat of the Coraopolis Theatre:
“Coraopolis, Pa., March 21, 1921.
“UNITED THEATRE EQUIPMENT CORP.,
“Pittsburgh, Pa. Mr. F. L. France.
“Dear Sir :
“We have had a Twin Unit Hallberg Generator installed in our theatre for some time.
“Our throw is 140 ft., and our screen is 12 x 16. We find our picture is perfect and have a beautiful light at this distance.
“We cannot speak too highly of the Hallberg Motor Generator and can recommend same to anyone desiring an outfit which will give satisfaction in every respect.
Built in the mid-1990s for original operator O'Neil Theatres of Slidell, Louisiana, the Venture Cinemas 12 was designed by the Atlanta architectural firm Richard Rauh & Associates. It was featured in an article in the January, 1995, issue of Architectural Record.
This weblog post from Hoefer Wysocki Architecture, designers of the Blue Oaks 16, has a couple of renderings of the theater, including an interesting isometric of one of the auditoriums.
This article by Andreas Fuchs in Film Journal International gives some details about the innovative design of this house, which eliminated projection booths altogether.
I don’t think this house was ever known as Rocky Mountain Cinemas. The architect’s web site refers to it as The Big Wood 4 Cinema Theater Project, and the Internet has numerous web sites that list a Rocky Mountain Resort Cinemas at 105 Cloverly Lane. This is apparently an office. I think it might be the name of the subsidiary Metropolitan Theatres formed to manage its operations in the region.
A company profile of Santa Rosa Entertainment Group says that the Roxy Stadium 14 was opened on April 29, 2000. This page at the web site of the architects, Thorp Associates, has a drawing of the theater but misspells the name as Roxio.
The June 30, 1941, issue of The Film Daily said that the New Newington Theatre would be ready to open in early August. The original owner was named Fred Quatrano. The name New Newington was in use for this house at least as late as 1945, but I haven’t found any references to an earlier Newington Theatre.
This item mentioning the Globe appeared in the July 15, 1937, issue of The Film Daily:
“New Haven — Edwin S. Raffile, who managed the now-closed Globe Theater, a downtown first run, for 20 years, has been retained as superintendent of the Meadow Street film building by the new owners, Lomas & Nettleton.”
The Globe had closed sometime earlier that year, as it was mentioned in the January 2 issue of the same publication as having lately installed a new generator and arc lamps in the booth.
The Bijou Theatre was operating at 27 E. Market Street by 1909, but sometime later moved to 35 W. Market. The Corning Evening Leader of October 4, 1920, said that the Bijou would close for two weeks after that night’s show and then, after renovations, would reopen as the Regent Theatre. The Regent was still in operation at least as late as 1927, but closed sometime after that and remained dark until reopening as the Palace.
The diary of Frances Hubbard Flaherty, wife of documentary film maker Robert Flaherty, and later a screenwriter herself, mentions a visit to the Globe Theatre in New Haven on January 30, 1916.
The Globe is mentioned in the May 2, 1925, issue of The Moving Picture World:
“Edward Raffile, popular manager of the Globe Theatre in New Haven, has turned it into a first-run house. Ye scribe always recalls the Globe with pleasure as the house having an excellent organ and organist.”
The imminent opening of the Lenox Theatre was noted in The Moving Picture World of May 2, 1925, though the theater’s name was misspelled:
“Hartford’s newest photoplay theatre has been named the Lennox and will be opened early in May. It is understood that Jack Sanson, now manager of the Lyric Theatre, Hartford, will take charge of the new house. The theatre seats 900.”
In 1926, the May 2 issue of The Moving Picture World reported the rebuilding of the long-closed Premier Theatre:
“The Premier Theatre in Fall River, Mass., rebuilt by William J. Dunn at a cost of $100,000, opened recently. It had been closed for over six years. There are approximately 1,000 seats. The policy will be first-run photoplays.”
Michael Shea would take over operation of the Century Theatre in Buffalo on December 22, according to the December 14, 1928, issue of the Corning Evening Leader.
Buffalo architects Edwin P. Bacon and William C. Lurkey established their partnership in 1922.
The May 2, 1925, issue of The Moving Picture World said that the contract for the construction of the Kenmore Theatre had been let:
“A contract has been let to the Rowland Corporation of Kenmore, N. Y., for the erection of a theatre and business building in Delaware avenue between Chapel and Landers roads. Work will begin immediately and the house is expected to open in the fall. It will seat 1800. There will also be a public hall seating 900, bowling alleys and sixteen stores. The cost will be $300,000. The stock in the building corporation is being taken mostly by Kenmore people, the plan being to make it a community theatre.”
In 1936, the Kenmore Theatre became part of the Shea circuit, as was noted in the September 3 issue of The Film Daily:
“The Kenmore Theater, sole film
house in Kenmore, 20,000 population suburb just north of Buffalo, was taken over this week for operation by Buffalo Theaters, the Shea organization. Negotiations for the lease covered several months. Mitchell Fitzer of Syracuse has held it for more than five years, with Ephraim Bettigole as resident manager. Carl Rindcen, now at Shea’s Kensington, will assume management of the Kenmore on Saturday. Bettigole is expected to join the Fitzer organization in Syracuse.”
The only photo of the Kenmore Theatre I’ve been able to find is on this page of the Ken-Ton Bee web site, where it is partly seen in the background, obscured by a parade float.
The opening of the Mid City Theatre was mentioned in the May 2, 1925, issue of The Moving Picture World :
“Paul Rutishauser opened his Mid-City Theatre on West Madison street, Chicago, last month. Many film folk turned out to congratulate him upon his fine little 300-seat house.”
The May 2, 1925, issue of The Moving Picture World had this announcement: “The New Vista Theatre of Max Weiss at Rio Vista, Cal., is nearing completion.”
There’s a very small photo of the building when the theater was still in operation on this web page. The page says that the first Vista Theatre, which this house replaced, was located in the 100 block of Main Street and was in operation by 1923.
The Almo Theatre was in operation by 1925, when this item appeared in the May 2 issue of The Moving Picture World:
“A. Swan of Silverdale, Wash., has acquired the Rex, Poulsbo, and is having it remodeled. This will furnish competition to J. M. Almos' Almo Theatre.”
J. M. Almos was still operating the Almo in 1942, although this item from the January 2 issue of The Film Daily misspelled both his name and that of his theater:
“Contract Is Let For New Theater In Northwest
“Poulsbo, Wash. — J. Alamos has let contract for a new theater here to take the place of the Alamos Theater. Work will be started early this year.”
I’ve found nothing later in the trade journals indicating that Mr. Almos completed his new theater. The timing was inauspicious. The Federal government was soon to place restrictions on all construction that did not contribute to the war effort, and the only way a new theater could have been built in Poulsbo at that time is if it was already well under way when the restrictions were established, or if the local population had grown much larger as the result of the establishment or expansion of a nearby military base or war-related industry.
The January 11, 1944, issue of The Film Daily reported that T. E. (a later item says T. F.) and G. B. White (the latter mentioned in an earlier comment by Arthur) had taken over operation of the Almo Theatre from J. Almos.
In 1941, the Esquire Theatre company, operators of the Squire Theatre, were involved in an arbitration case with five major film companies and the operators of the rival Playhouse Theatre. Esquire had filed a claim that the 30-day clearance given the Playhouse was unfair. As part of their case they compared the condition of their newer theater with that of the old Playhouse which had grown a bit shabby. An article about the case in the July 19, 1941, issue of Showmen’s Trade Review included this description of the Squire:
“…approach to the theatre is made through a store on Middle Neck Road, 20 feet wide and 80 feet long, which has been subdivided into a series of vestibules and lobbies, and this terminates in an auditorium approximately 70 feet in width by 135 feet in length. The auditorium is divided into two parts, the lower level and the stadium level, the lower level containing approximately 660 seats, and the stadium containing 330 seats.
“After leaving the entrance lobbies, one approaches a large promenade which terminates in a lounge approximately 16 by 30 feet in size, off of which are anterooms, and the toilet facilities for ladies and gentlemen.
“Part of the original lot, which was 90 feet in width, has been devoted, to exit facilities and boiler room and heating and cooling apparatus. The stadium is completely fireproof in construction, as is the projection booth and the adjacent spaces in the projection booth.
“In addition to the adequate lighting facilities throughout the auditorium Acousticon units for hard of hearing have been installed on 20 chairs.”
The Goshen Theatre was opened on the evening of March 10, 1939, according to that day’s issue of the Middletown Times Herald. The house was designed by architect Thomas W. Lamb with a “…Colonial atmosphere…,” but from the description it sounded more rustic-Early American: the lobby was floored with flagstone, its walls were paneled with knotty pine, and it featured a fireplace with a Dutch screen.
The exterior sounded like it was a more orthodox Colonial Revival, though: “The brick exterior on South Church street, facing the Village Park, was painted white and a cupola surmounted the roof, to be topped later with an iron weather vane depicting a harness horse and sulky.”
An advertisement for the Goshen Theatre in the same edition of the paper boasted that its seats were farther apart than those of Radio City Music Hall. The Goshen was apparently not to be a first-run house, though. The opening feature was A Man to Remember, which had been released in October, 1938.
This item from the January 25, 1921, issue of The Moving Picture World indicates that J. A. Nordquist bought the original Main Street Theatre that year:
“Galeton Block Sold
Galeton, Pa.— Mr. and Mrs. J. Albert Nordquist have purchased the Main St. theater block from John L. White. The lease does not expire until some time next year, when the new owners will take possession.“
The 1914-1915 edition of the American Motion Picture Directory lists the Main Street Theatre in Galeton at 37 Main Street. It doesn’t specify East or West, but East Main is lined mostly with old houses while the greatest part of Galeton’s surviving business buildings are on West Main, so 37 W. Main is probably where the theater was.
I live in California, formerly in suburban Los Angeles but now in a backwater in the northern Sierra foothills. I can’t really claim the knowledge as mine, though, as it’s all stuff I’ve dug up on the Internet, mostly at the Internet Archive which has a large collection of old theater industry trade journals.
If the link holds, this page of Boxoffice, June 21, 1941, shows two photos of the Lake Theatre. The facade was plain brick above the marquee. The streamlined ground floor front looks like it was done in Vitrolite or one of the other glass tiles popular around that time. The building was much narrower than the theater in the photo we’re currently seeing at the top of our page, as can also be seen by the Boxoffice photo of the Lake’s auditorium. I don’t know the location of the Lake Theatre in the photo robboehm uploaded, but it wasn’t the Lake in Canandaigua.
The bank annex Estey_Struble_Theatrical mentioned as being on the site of the Lake Theatre has the address 60-70 above its door, so the theater’s address was probably about 64. The bank’s main office next door to the south is at 72 S. Main and the Renaissance Goodie II Shoppe next door to the north is at 56 S. Main. The theater should be listed as demolished, of course.
The August 7, 1915, issue of The Moving Picture World had this item about the new theater planned at Sewickley:
I haven’t discovered if Mr. Wheat achieved his goal of opening the new theater around the first of September.This item from the May 3, 1919, issue of The Moving Picture World is most likely about the Coraopolis Theatre:
An advertisement in the May 7, 1921, issue of The Moving Picture World featured a letter from William Wheat of the Coraopolis Theatre:Built in the mid-1990s for original operator O'Neil Theatres of Slidell, Louisiana, the Venture Cinemas 12 was designed by the Atlanta architectural firm Richard Rauh & Associates. It was featured in an article in the January, 1995, issue of Architectural Record.
This weblog post from Hoefer Wysocki Architecture, designers of the Blue Oaks 16, has a couple of renderings of the theater, including an interesting isometric of one of the auditoriums.
This article by Andreas Fuchs in Film Journal International gives some details about the innovative design of this house, which eliminated projection booths altogether.
I don’t think this house was ever known as Rocky Mountain Cinemas. The architect’s web site refers to it as The Big Wood 4 Cinema Theater Project, and the Internet has numerous web sites that list a Rocky Mountain Resort Cinemas at 105 Cloverly Lane. This is apparently an office. I think it might be the name of the subsidiary Metropolitan Theatres formed to manage its operations in the region.
A company profile of Santa Rosa Entertainment Group says that the Roxy Stadium 14 was opened on April 29, 2000. This page at the web site of the architects, Thorp Associates, has a drawing of the theater but misspells the name as Roxio.
Santa Rosa Entertainment Group operated the Marketplace Stadium 10.
A company profile of Santa Rosa Entertainment Group says that the chain opened the Horizon Stadium 9 Theatre on October 9, 1997.
The June 30, 1941, issue of The Film Daily said that the New Newington Theatre would be ready to open in early August. The original owner was named Fred Quatrano. The name New Newington was in use for this house at least as late as 1945, but I haven’t found any references to an earlier Newington Theatre.
This item mentioning the Globe appeared in the July 15, 1937, issue of The Film Daily:
The Globe had closed sometime earlier that year, as it was mentioned in the January 2 issue of the same publication as having lately installed a new generator and arc lamps in the booth.The March 1, 1919, issue of The Moving Picture World mentioned the Lawrence Theatre in New Haven.
The Bijou Theatre was operating at 27 E. Market Street by 1909, but sometime later moved to 35 W. Market. The Corning Evening Leader of October 4, 1920, said that the Bijou would close for two weeks after that night’s show and then, after renovations, would reopen as the Regent Theatre. The Regent was still in operation at least as late as 1927, but closed sometime after that and remained dark until reopening as the Palace.
The diary of Frances Hubbard Flaherty, wife of documentary film maker Robert Flaherty, and later a screenwriter herself, mentions a visit to the Globe Theatre in New Haven on January 30, 1916.
The Globe is mentioned in the May 2, 1925, issue of The Moving Picture World:
The imminent opening of the Lenox Theatre was noted in The Moving Picture World of May 2, 1925, though the theater’s name was misspelled:
In 1926, the May 2 issue of The Moving Picture World reported the rebuilding of the long-closed Premier Theatre:
Michael Shea would take over operation of the Century Theatre in Buffalo on December 22, according to the December 14, 1928, issue of the Corning Evening Leader.
Buffalo architects Edwin P. Bacon and William C. Lurkey established their partnership in 1922.
The May 2, 1925, issue of The Moving Picture World said that the contract for the construction of the Kenmore Theatre had been let:
In 1936, the Kenmore Theatre became part of the Shea circuit, as was noted in the September 3 issue of The Film Daily:The only photo of the Kenmore Theatre I’ve been able to find is on this page of the Ken-Ton Bee web site, where it is partly seen in the background, obscured by a parade float.The opening of the Mid City Theatre was mentioned in the May 2, 1925, issue of The Moving Picture World :
The May 2, 1925, issue of The Moving Picture World had this announcement: “The New Vista Theatre of Max Weiss at Rio Vista, Cal., is nearing completion.”
There’s a very small photo of the building when the theater was still in operation on this web page. The page says that the first Vista Theatre, which this house replaced, was located in the 100 block of Main Street and was in operation by 1923.
The Almo Theatre was in operation by 1925, when this item appeared in the May 2 issue of The Moving Picture World:
J. M. Almos was still operating the Almo in 1942, although this item from the January 2 issue of The Film Daily misspelled both his name and that of his theater:I’ve found nothing later in the trade journals indicating that Mr. Almos completed his new theater. The timing was inauspicious. The Federal government was soon to place restrictions on all construction that did not contribute to the war effort, and the only way a new theater could have been built in Poulsbo at that time is if it was already well under way when the restrictions were established, or if the local population had grown much larger as the result of the establishment or expansion of a nearby military base or war-related industry.The January 11, 1944, issue of The Film Daily reported that T. E. (a later item says T. F.) and G. B. White (the latter mentioned in an earlier comment by Arthur) had taken over operation of the Almo Theatre from J. Almos.
In 1941, the Esquire Theatre company, operators of the Squire Theatre, were involved in an arbitration case with five major film companies and the operators of the rival Playhouse Theatre. Esquire had filed a claim that the 30-day clearance given the Playhouse was unfair. As part of their case they compared the condition of their newer theater with that of the old Playhouse which had grown a bit shabby. An article about the case in the July 19, 1941, issue of Showmen’s Trade Review included this description of the Squire:
The Goshen Theatre was opened on the evening of March 10, 1939, according to that day’s issue of the Middletown Times Herald. The house was designed by architect Thomas W. Lamb with a “…Colonial atmosphere…,” but from the description it sounded more rustic-Early American: the lobby was floored with flagstone, its walls were paneled with knotty pine, and it featured a fireplace with a Dutch screen.
The exterior sounded like it was a more orthodox Colonial Revival, though: “The brick exterior on South Church street, facing the Village Park, was painted white and a cupola surmounted the roof, to be topped later with an iron weather vane depicting a harness horse and sulky.”
An advertisement for the Goshen Theatre in the same edition of the paper boasted that its seats were farther apart than those of Radio City Music Hall. The Goshen was apparently not to be a first-run house, though. The opening feature was A Man to Remember, which had been released in October, 1938.
This item from the January 25, 1921, issue of The Moving Picture World indicates that J. A. Nordquist bought the original Main Street Theatre that year:
The 1914-1915 edition of the American Motion Picture Directory lists the Main Street Theatre in Galeton at 37 Main Street. It doesn’t specify East or West, but East Main is lined mostly with old houses while the greatest part of Galeton’s surviving business buildings are on West Main, so 37 W. Main is probably where the theater was.I live in California, formerly in suburban Los Angeles but now in a backwater in the northern Sierra foothills. I can’t really claim the knowledge as mine, though, as it’s all stuff I’ve dug up on the Internet, mostly at the Internet Archive which has a large collection of old theater industry trade journals.