Reed Construction Data lists an 8-screen multiplex built at Columbus, Mississippi, in 2004 as one of several projects designed for Malco by the Memphis architectural firm Atkins Buchner Price Architects.
An article in the December 9, 2001, issue of Memphis Business Journal said that demolition would begin the next week to remove a building on the site of the proposed Malco multiplex cinema at Poplar Avenue and Mendenhall Road. The 14-screen house was tentatively to be called either the Rialto or the Paradiso.
The project was designed by the Memphis architectural firm Atkins Buchner Price Architects. Principal architect on the project, Robert S. Price, had previously been design and production manager at Mark E. Watson & Associates, the firm which had designed Malco’s Majestic Cinema and Wolfchase Cinema, both opened in 1997.
An article in the June 24, 1997, issue of the Memphis Daily News said that Malco’s new 11-screen multiplex, The Majestic, would open in August. The project was designed by the Memphis architectural firm Mark E. Watson & Associates.
An article in the June 24, 1997, issue of the Memphis Daily News said that Malco’s Wolfchase Cinema had opened on March 30. The theater was designed by the Memphis architectural firm Mark E. Watson & Associates.
I lost track of this one. The California Theatre officially reopened on January 19, 2013, and is now slated to be the home of the Pittsburg Community Theatre. The closest thing I can find to an official web site for the theater itself is its Facebook page, which has a few photos. There is some stud lighting crowning the marquee, but the attraction board does not appear to be lit from within. I can’t find any events currently scheduled.
A privately-funded organization called the Union County Development Fund has purchased the Avalon Theatre building, as well as two other buildings in Uptown, Marysville’s historic business district. It intends to renovate and reopen the theater, but plans have been stalled for quite a while. This item appeared in the local paper over a year ago, and it’s the most recent information I’ve been able to find.
Articles about the opening of the Edge Moor Theatre appeared in the Wilmington Sunday Morning Star of November 30, 1941. The new house had opened the previous Wednesday. One article reveals that the Edge Moor Theatre was designed by architect Armand de Cortieux Carroll.
The introductory line of our description for this theater is a bit misleading. The Garden Cinemas was across Isaac Street from the corner of the parking lot behind the Globe/Roxy Theatre. Saying “…by the former Globe/Roxy” makes it sound like they were in neighboring buildings, when actually the back of one is a couple of hundred feet from the front of the other.
Google Maps camera car didn’t go down Isaac Street, but if you look south on Isaac from Wall Street, I believe the Cinema Norwalk/Garden Cinemas was in the building at the end of the block, with the red and white vertical stripes.
Yes, the Polonia Theatre is listed at 405-407 Maryland from 1915 to 1921, but I don’t know if that was a different building exactly a block away, or if Wilmington simply renumbered its blocks in 1921.
Maryland Avenue (aka Delaware 4) maps properly at Google Maps. The map for our page probably needs to be reset with the correct zip code, which is 19804.
The Library of Congress has this closeup photo of the State Theatre’s marquee and tower, dated 1937.
A catalog of copyrights issued in 1935 has an entry for a copyright issued to architect Victor A. Rigaumont for “…additions to State Theatre at Manchester, N. H., for M. A. Shea and associates.” It is dated April 12, 1935. There’s no indication as to the nature or extent of the additions.
This piece about the Empire Theatre (linked earlier by lostmemory) says that “New York architect, Claufflin, designed the new house.” Maine Memory is the only web site that makes any reference to a theater architect named Claufflin, and I don’t find him mentioned in any periodicals of the time.
I suppose that they must be referring to Fuller Claflin, the somewhat peripatetic theater architect who was practicing in New York City at the time the Empire was built. He had previously worked in San Francisco (1890-1895), and would open an office in Detroit in 1909.
The 1915 Manchester City Directory lists the Modern Theatre as 58 Amory Street. I don’t know if that is an error, or if the Modern Theatre actually moved across the street, or if Manchester flipped its odd and even numbers to the opposites sides of the streets.
There is no listing for a Notre Dame Theatre, though Notre Dame was an apt name in this district of Manchester. In the late 19th and early 20th century, the area west of the river was the home of many French Canadians who had come to work in the Amoskeag company’s textile mills.
The vertical sign and side wall of the Modern Theatre can be seen at the left in this photo from the Library of Congress. A large poster on the theater’s wall advertises the 1937 movie Thunder in the City, starring Edward G. Robinson.
As can be seen by comparing the photo with the Google Street View of this neighborhood, the entire area has been redeveloped and the Modern Theatre building is gone, along with everything else on the block.
There’s a 1939 photo of Elm Street showing part of the State Theatre at the bottom of page 32 of Manchester Streetcars, by O. R. Cummings (Google Books preview.)
Google’s camera car went through the alleys on this block of Manchester, so street view shows the back of the building. The auditorium end of the Strand Theatre’s entrance arcade can be seen from across the parking lot where the auditorium once stood.
The Strand Theatre opened on January 24, 1881, as the Manchester Opera House. A history of the building can be seen on this web page. The building was designed by architect John T. Fanning in the Queen Anne style (unlike many Victorian architects who would call just about any old pile of ornament Queen Anne, Fanning gave the Opera Block a fairly credible reinterpretation of the original English Renaissance-Baroque style.) The theater was renamed the Strand as early as 1906.
Several sources indicate that the Strand operated as a regular movie theater until the early 1970s, then operated as an adult movie house for several years. The building suffered two fires in 1985, the second of which, on March 10, resulted in the demolition of the auditorium. The surviving portion of the building was renovated not long after the fire and now houses luxury apartments, office space, and trendy retail establishments.
The entrance to the theater was through an arcade leading from the arch seen at the center of this modern photo of the restored Opera Block (aka Harrington-Smith Block.) The name Strand is still set into the tile at the entrance.
The caption of a c. 1912 photo of the Crown Theatre on page 48 of Manchester, by Robert B. Perreault (Google Books preview), says that the Crown was renamed the Variety Theatre in 1955 and continued to operate under that name until closing in 1961.
The Lyric Theatre is listed as a moving picture theater at 51 Hanover Street in the 1920 Manchester City Directory. I don’t know if the directory got the address wrong or if the Lyric moved a few doors down the block sometime between 1920 and 1922.
The Shubert Theatre is listed at 201-209 Bleeker Street in the 1910 Utica city directory. Norman O. Keim’s Our Movie Houses gives the aka Buckley Theatre for this house in 1914, and lists it as the Colonial from 1917 to 1945. The name Buckley must have been temporary, as I’ve found the Shubert mentioned in 1916, and in 1915, when the August 7 issue of The Moving Picture World said that an organ was being installed in the house.
The “New Theaters” column of the May 17, 1928, issue of The Film Daily ran a brief announcement saying that the Queen Anne Theatre in Bogota, New Jersey, had opened.
The September 4, 2012, edition of the Shawnee Dispatch ran this fairly long article about the delay in getting the Fine Arts Theatre open. There have been conflicts over the city’s building permit requirements, and the owner of the building said that he was ready to abandon the project and sell the building for the $240,000 he had invested in it. I haven’t found anything more recent about the project, so I guess we can assume that it is still stalled.
The Yearbook did sometimes fail to update a theater’s name when it was changed, so we’ll probably have to dig up some other source to be sure when the Jason became the Victor, but the odds are that it didn’t happen until the 1950s.
I’ve found references to a stage production sponsored by the Federal Theatre Project being mounted at the Roosevelt Theatre in East Weymouth in 1938.
This page has an early photo of the Odd Fellows Building. It looks like there’s a poster case next to the Cottage Street entrance at far right.
Reed Construction Data lists an 8-screen multiplex built at Columbus, Mississippi, in 2004 as one of several projects designed for Malco by the Memphis architectural firm Atkins Buchner Price Architects.
An article in the December 9, 2001, issue of Memphis Business Journal said that demolition would begin the next week to remove a building on the site of the proposed Malco multiplex cinema at Poplar Avenue and Mendenhall Road. The 14-screen house was tentatively to be called either the Rialto or the Paradiso.
The project was designed by the Memphis architectural firm Atkins Buchner Price Architects. Principal architect on the project, Robert S. Price, had previously been design and production manager at Mark E. Watson & Associates, the firm which had designed Malco’s Majestic Cinema and Wolfchase Cinema, both opened in 1997.
An article in the June 24, 1997, issue of the Memphis Daily News said that Malco’s new 11-screen multiplex, The Majestic, would open in August. The project was designed by the Memphis architectural firm Mark E. Watson & Associates.
An article in the June 24, 1997, issue of the Memphis Daily News said that Malco’s Wolfchase Cinema had opened on March 30. The theater was designed by the Memphis architectural firm Mark E. Watson & Associates.
I lost track of this one. The California Theatre officially reopened on January 19, 2013, and is now slated to be the home of the Pittsburg Community Theatre. The closest thing I can find to an official web site for the theater itself is its Facebook page, which has a few photos. There is some stud lighting crowning the marquee, but the attraction board does not appear to be lit from within. I can’t find any events currently scheduled.
A privately-funded organization called the Union County Development Fund has purchased the Avalon Theatre building, as well as two other buildings in Uptown, Marysville’s historic business district. It intends to renovate and reopen the theater, but plans have been stalled for quite a while. This item appeared in the local paper over a year ago, and it’s the most recent information I’ve been able to find.
Articles about the opening of the Edge Moor Theatre appeared in the Wilmington Sunday Morning Star of November 30, 1941. The new house had opened the previous Wednesday. One article reveals that the Edge Moor Theatre was designed by architect Armand de Cortieux Carroll.
The introductory line of our description for this theater is a bit misleading. The Garden Cinemas was across Isaac Street from the corner of the parking lot behind the Globe/Roxy Theatre. Saying “…by the former Globe/Roxy” makes it sound like they were in neighboring buildings, when actually the back of one is a couple of hundred feet from the front of the other.
Google Maps camera car didn’t go down Isaac Street, but if you look south on Isaac from Wall Street, I believe the Cinema Norwalk/Garden Cinemas was in the building at the end of the block, with the red and white vertical stripes.
Yes, the Polonia Theatre is listed at 405-407 Maryland from 1915 to 1921, but I don’t know if that was a different building exactly a block away, or if Wilmington simply renumbered its blocks in 1921.
Maryland Avenue (aka Delaware 4) maps properly at Google Maps. The map for our page probably needs to be reset with the correct zip code, which is 19804.
The Library of Congress has this closeup photo of the State Theatre’s marquee and tower, dated 1937.
A catalog of copyrights issued in 1935 has an entry for a copyright issued to architect Victor A. Rigaumont for “…additions to State Theatre at Manchester, N. H., for M. A. Shea and associates.” It is dated April 12, 1935. There’s no indication as to the nature or extent of the additions.
This piece about the Empire Theatre (linked earlier by lostmemory) says that “New York architect, Claufflin, designed the new house.” Maine Memory is the only web site that makes any reference to a theater architect named Claufflin, and I don’t find him mentioned in any periodicals of the time.
I suppose that they must be referring to Fuller Claflin, the somewhat peripatetic theater architect who was practicing in New York City at the time the Empire was built. He had previously worked in San Francisco (1890-1895), and would open an office in Detroit in 1909.
This weblog post from MassHistory has several photos of the Buzzards Bay Theatre, including an early postcard that appears to be from the 1930s.
The 1915 Manchester City Directory lists the Modern Theatre as 58 Amory Street. I don’t know if that is an error, or if the Modern Theatre actually moved across the street, or if Manchester flipped its odd and even numbers to the opposites sides of the streets.
There is no listing for a Notre Dame Theatre, though Notre Dame was an apt name in this district of Manchester. In the late 19th and early 20th century, the area west of the river was the home of many French Canadians who had come to work in the Amoskeag company’s textile mills.
The vertical sign and side wall of the Modern Theatre can be seen at the left in this photo from the Library of Congress. A large poster on the theater’s wall advertises the 1937 movie Thunder in the City, starring Edward G. Robinson.
As can be seen by comparing the photo with the Google Street View of this neighborhood, the entire area has been redeveloped and the Modern Theatre building is gone, along with everything else on the block.
There’s a 1939 photo of Elm Street showing part of the State Theatre at the bottom of page 32 of Manchester Streetcars, by O. R. Cummings (Google Books preview.)
Google’s camera car went through the alleys on this block of Manchester, so street view shows the back of the building. The auditorium end of the Strand Theatre’s entrance arcade can be seen from across the parking lot where the auditorium once stood.
The Strand Theatre opened on January 24, 1881, as the Manchester Opera House. A history of the building can be seen on this web page. The building was designed by architect John T. Fanning in the Queen Anne style (unlike many Victorian architects who would call just about any old pile of ornament Queen Anne, Fanning gave the Opera Block a fairly credible reinterpretation of the original English Renaissance-Baroque style.) The theater was renamed the Strand as early as 1906.
Several sources indicate that the Strand operated as a regular movie theater until the early 1970s, then operated as an adult movie house for several years. The building suffered two fires in 1985, the second of which, on March 10, resulted in the demolition of the auditorium. The surviving portion of the building was renovated not long after the fire and now houses luxury apartments, office space, and trendy retail establishments.
The entrance to the theater was through an arcade leading from the arch seen at the center of this modern photo of the restored Opera Block (aka Harrington-Smith Block.) The name Strand is still set into the tile at the entrance.
The caption of a c. 1912 photo of the Crown Theatre on page 48 of Manchester, by Robert B. Perreault (Google Books preview), says that the Crown was renamed the Variety Theatre in 1955 and continued to operate under that name until closing in 1961.
The Lyric Theatre is listed as a moving picture theater at 51 Hanover Street in the 1920 Manchester City Directory. I don’t know if the directory got the address wrong or if the Lyric moved a few doors down the block sometime between 1920 and 1922.
The Eagle Theatre is listed at 1182 Elm Street in the 1920 Manchester City Directory.
The Crown Theatre is listed at 97 Hanover Street in the 1920 Manchester City Directory.
The Modern Theatre is listed in the 1920 Manchester City Directory.
The Shubert Theatre is listed at 201-209 Bleeker Street in the 1910 Utica city directory. Norman O. Keim’s Our Movie Houses gives the aka Buckley Theatre for this house in 1914, and lists it as the Colonial from 1917 to 1945. The name Buckley must have been temporary, as I’ve found the Shubert mentioned in 1916, and in 1915, when the August 7 issue of The Moving Picture World said that an organ was being installed in the house.
The “New Theaters” column of the May 17, 1928, issue of The Film Daily ran a brief announcement saying that the Queen Anne Theatre in Bogota, New Jersey, had opened.
The September 4, 2012, edition of the Shawnee Dispatch ran this fairly long article about the delay in getting the Fine Arts Theatre open. There have been conflicts over the city’s building permit requirements, and the owner of the building said that he was ready to abandon the project and sell the building for the $240,000 he had invested in it. I haven’t found anything more recent about the project, so I guess we can assume that it is still stalled.
The Yearbook did sometimes fail to update a theater’s name when it was changed, so we’ll probably have to dig up some other source to be sure when the Jason became the Victor, but the odds are that it didn’t happen until the 1950s.
I’ve found references to a stage production sponsored by the Federal Theatre Project being mounted at the Roosevelt Theatre in East Weymouth in 1938.
This page has an early photo of the Odd Fellows Building. It looks like there’s a poster case next to the Cottage Street entrance at far right.