Do you see the Vine Street Brown Derby across the street? I actually ate there just before it burned down in the mid 80s. The place was pretty shabby by that time.
This theater doesn’t show up on the B& B site now. I’ve seen it referred to as both the Coffeyville Family Theater and the Coffeyville Cinema. There may have been a change of ownership sometime in the past three years.
I just went there for fun. Perhaps if I was exposed on a daily basis, I might have had a different opinion, but to me it was always an enjoyable time in the city.
I was looking at Ed Solero’s photo of 9/6/07, and it really brought back memories of Times Square in the 70s and 80s. Although most of the theaters showed porn and there were hookers everywhere, to me that’s what the big city was like. I preferred that to the Guliani/Disney Times Square of today. I think a city should have a little grit.
I recall from reading Thomas Hauser’s 1990 biography that Ali signed deals for restaurants, clothing lines, even a Muhammad Ali car. This might have been one of those deals.
I looked for the May 1967 article but didn’t see it in the Press-Telegram archives. I did see an October 1948 article describing how manager Harold Simpson was bound and gagged while a bandit looted the theater safe and escaped with $7,000 in cash, bonds and jewelry. The jewelry belonged to Catherine V. Tracy, 1043 Locust Avenue, wife of Eugene V. Tracy, owner of the theater.
If the 1946 photo was taken shortly before demolition, then the Grand would have been its last incarnation, and should rightly be the name under which the theater is listed.
No, actually I was basing my comment on the fact that the Cameo in Anniston had an aka of Theato. My assumption was that Jack posted his photo on the wrong page. /theaters/15587/
President of Rockwood Amusements in 1963 was W.R. Holder. The Park was part of the circuit, as it still was in 1970. Rockwood Amusements was headquartered in Nashville. The circuit operated theaters in Tennessee, Kentucky and Alabama.
Here is a June 1948 blurb from Time. We only have one theater in Shelby that would have been around in 1948, other than the drive-in, so it goes here by process of elimination.
In a Shelby, N.C. movie theater, Veteran Arbuth Bumgarner, 26, who was bombed while a patient in a Normandy hospital, suddenly went berserk, stabbed his wife and then himself with his pocketknife. The movie “drove him nuts,” he explained. It showed the bombing of a Normandy hospital.
Do you see the Vine Street Brown Derby across the street? I actually ate there just before it burned down in the mid 80s. The place was pretty shabby by that time.
So Mr. Stivers was the one that bought the hand truck.
Maybe Deuce Bigalow did them in.
There are photos from 2004 on this site:
http://tinyurl.com/3up2jm
This theater doesn’t show up on the B& B site now. I’ve seen it referred to as both the Coffeyville Family Theater and the Coffeyville Cinema. There may have been a change of ownership sometime in the past three years.
I just went there for fun. Perhaps if I was exposed on a daily basis, I might have had a different opinion, but to me it was always an enjoyable time in the city.
I was looking at Ed Solero’s photo of 9/6/07, and it really brought back memories of Times Square in the 70s and 80s. Although most of the theaters showed porn and there were hookers everywhere, to me that’s what the big city was like. I preferred that to the Guliani/Disney Times Square of today. I think a city should have a little grit.
There is a photograph of the Lyceum on this page:
http://tinyurl.com/4qzqbg
Cinematour shows an address of 1729 W. Broadway.
Here is a September 2008 article about a Girl Scout invasion:
http://tinyurl.com/4zp48e
Here is a July 2007 article about the opening of the theater:
http://tinyurl.com/5xqs73
Sorry, the LAPL captioned that for the Wilshire. Thanks for the correction.
Here is a 1948 photo from the LA Public Library:
http://jpg3.lapl.org/pics49/00074140.jpg
Protest in front of the Chinese in 1983, from the LAPL:
http://jpg1.lapl.org/00077/00077889.jpg
Here are some LAPL photos that haven’t been posted yet:
http://jpg2.lapl.org/theater1/00014416.jpg
http://jpg3.lapl.org/pics01/00020234.jpg
http://jpg2.lapl.org/theater1/00014421.jpg
http://jpg3.lapl.org/pics01/00020233.jpg
http://jpg2.lapl.org/theater1/00014417.jpg
http://jpg2.lapl.org/theater1/00014425.jpg
http://jpg2.lapl.org/theater1/00014422.jpg
http://jpg2.lapl.org/theater1/00014427.jpg
http://jpg2.lapl.org/theater1/00014428.jpg
http://jpg2.lapl.org/theater1/00014426.jpg
http://jpg2.lapl.org/theater1/00014423.jpg
http://jpg2.lapl.org/theater1/00014420.jpg
http://jpg2.lapl.org/theater1/00014429.jpg
http://jpg2.lapl.org/theater1/00014419.jpg
I wonder what the color was when it was a porn house? Not that bright green, I assume.
You’re assuming we all live in Nevada and can vote in your election.
I recall from reading Thomas Hauser’s 1990 biography that Ali signed deals for restaurants, clothing lines, even a Muhammad Ali car. This might have been one of those deals.
I looked for the May 1967 article but didn’t see it in the Press-Telegram archives. I did see an October 1948 article describing how manager Harold Simpson was bound and gagged while a bandit looted the theater safe and escaped with $7,000 in cash, bonds and jewelry. The jewelry belonged to Catherine V. Tracy, 1043 Locust Avenue, wife of Eugene V. Tracy, owner of the theater.
If the 1946 photo was taken shortly before demolition, then the Grand would have been its last incarnation, and should rightly be the name under which the theater is listed.
No, actually I was basing my comment on the fact that the Cameo in Anniston had an aka of Theato. My assumption was that Jack posted his photo on the wrong page.
/theaters/15587/
This site places the Roxy at 720 Bank Street. There are also some photos.
http://tinyurl.com/3vjpud
I think Jack was referring to the Roxy in his comment above. I don’t believe there is an aka of Theato.
President of Rockwood Amusements in 1963 was W.R. Holder. The Park was part of the circuit, as it still was in 1970. Rockwood Amusements was headquartered in Nashville. The circuit operated theaters in Tennessee, Kentucky and Alabama.
Here is a June 1948 blurb from Time. We only have one theater in Shelby that would have been around in 1948, other than the drive-in, so it goes here by process of elimination.
In a Shelby, N.C. movie theater, Veteran Arbuth Bumgarner, 26, who was bombed while a patient in a Normandy hospital, suddenly went berserk, stabbed his wife and then himself with his pocketknife. The movie “drove him nuts,” he explained. It showed the bombing of a Normandy hospital.