Comments from kencmcintyre

Here are some February 2002 photos:
http://tinyurl.com/64up4z

Filming at the Mayan today:
http://tinyurl.com/6mxdew

Here’s a whopper. I’ve never been to Memphis, but it looks amazingly like San Francisco:
http://tinyurl.com/5k5wy8

Here is a color version of the 1971 photo I posted on 11/4/07, along with a 1955 photo. Both are from Life Magazine:
http://tinyurl.com/5w92ym
http://tinyurl.com/6j7dxq

There is a very nice version of the LOC photo in a new book called “Historic Photos of Los Angeles”.

Here is a photo taken yesterday:
http://tinyurl.com/5ogox2

OK, the billboard is on the Cameo next door. Same issue, though.

Here is a December 2008 photo:
http://tinyurl.com/5fcc8j

When I saw Earthquake in Sensurround in 1974, in Ventnor NJ, the seats shook but it wasn’t anything earth-shaking, no pun intended.

The Princess was razed in July 1941, according to the Chicago Tribune.

Chicago Loses Another Theater

July 16-From Chicago comes word that any day now wreckers will start razing the Princess Theatre, on South Clark Street.

Here is the original story from four days earlier, before the hapless Mr. Otto confessed:

Bandit Takes Theater Cash

Victim for the second time in 14 months of a daring daylight robbery, Norris W. Otto, theater manager, was beaten on the head with an iron pipe and robbed of $1200 in receipts as he was leaving for the bank today.

Since the robbery of $500 last year, the office door has been kept locked. Today Otto counted the money, placed it in a sack and left the office. He had descended the stairs a short distance when he was struck from behind. He was knocked unconscious and did not recover until a half-hour later, when he dragged himself to the office. The pipe with which he was struck was found on the stairway by E.H. Schultz, a theater confectionary operator. Otto could not give police a description of the bandit.

The cost of restoration was up to 750K by March 2006:
http://tinyurl.com/57wqzf

More photos here:
http://tinyurl.com/5c5jux