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.
No, it was actually just decorative. There are ads for Grauman’s Chinese, El Capitan and others. The theme of the mall is movies, Oscar night and so on.
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.
Here is a 2007 photo:
http://tinyurl.com/52m3st
Thanks for the update, Ed. There are some photos on this page:
http://www.drive-ins.com/gallery/catsan3
Here are some October 2008 photos:
http://tinyurl.com/46m7tl
http://tinyurl.com/3z33ka
Here are some October 2008 photos:
http://tinyurl.com/5485fk
http://tinyurl.com/464f4o
Here is an October 2008 photo:
http://tinyurl.com/4va444
No, it was actually just decorative. There are ads for Grauman’s Chinese, El Capitan and others. The theme of the mall is movies, Oscar night and so on.
I think all the ads were for Los Angeles theaters, so it is probably for the Palace/Orpheum.
I waded through the tourists and the lame celebrity impersonators today to take these photos. One tourist was overheard complaining that “I didn’t see one famous person here today”. I didn’t want to tell him that celebrities don’t generally spend their Sunday afternoons hanging out at the Chinese.
http://tinyurl.com/3vjk5b
http://tinyurl.com/4d54jc
http://tinyurl.com/3sdoqr
http://tinyurl.com/4q4mt4
http://tinyurl.com/4tbfak
http://tinyurl.com/4pdhge
I’ll throw in a few shots from the mall next door:
http://tinyurl.com/4c8gls
http://tinyurl.com/4mlbgf
http://tinyurl.com/3efodk
Here are some October 2008 photos:
http://tinyurl.com/4rb492
http://tinyurl.com/4pe725
http://tinyurl.com/4d5c3k
http://tinyurl.com/53qt4m
http://tinyurl.com/45jheu
http://tinyurl.com/43g7k7
http://tinyurl.com/4xd3hk
Here are some October 2008 photos:
http://tinyurl.com/47j9ms
http://tinyurl.com/4w4ata
http://tinyurl.com/3tum7u
http://tinyurl.com/4unr9s
http://tinyurl.com/4q2l5v
http://tinyurl.com/4x3hje
http://tinyurl.com/43qnlc
http://tinyurl.com/3mpgup
http://tinyurl.com/3jvync
How can a vegan restaurant get a B? Don’t the rats get frustrated and leave when there’s nothing to eat?
Here are some October 2008 photos:
http://tinyurl.com/4rwm4w
http://tinyurl.com/4tvdhr
http://tinyurl.com/49g6tp
Here are some October 2008 photos:
http://tinyurl.com/4pcvmr
http://tinyurl.com/4pk8dj
http://tinyurl.com/3whgf6
http://tinyurl.com/4pgkyn
This undated ad was on the restroom wall at the Hollywood & Highland complex:
http://tinyurl.com/4bdqmd
This 1921 ad was on the restroom wall at the Hollywood and Highland mall:
http://tinyurl.com/3q463f
Here is a photo taken today:
http://tinyurl.com/3tvfzp
Here are some October 2008 photos:
http://tinyurl.com/49ol7o
http://tinyurl.com/4wyfs9
http://tinyurl.com/4t5lge
http://tinyurl.com/4tgjj2
http://tinyurl.com/3rqbz4
Here are two photos taken today. No tempeh for me as the place was closed.
http://tinyurl.com/4ssj37
http://tinyurl.com/4lvkjq