They found the statue of the miner that used to be in front of the theater, stolen recently. He was in a scrap yard, cut in half and waiting to be melted down. He will be restored to his old spot, it appears.
It’s odd that I can’t figure out what happened to this theater, unless it had some other name later on. It seems like kind of an imposing structure just to fade away.
Here is a photo from the Mansfield Collection at the University of Montana. The date is given as 1949, which may or may not be correct. The first version of “The Ten Commandments” was released in 1923, while the second was released in 1956. The car in the photo looks more like mid fifties than late forties, so my hunch is that the photo is circa 1956: http://tinyurl.com/2wgxpg
There are some photos of the theater towards the bottom of this page. An internet search shows Paramount Furniture at this address, but I can’t confirm that the furniture store has replaced the army-navy store: http://tinyurl.com/2h4tw7
They found the statue of the miner that used to be in front of the theater, stolen recently. He was in a scrap yard, cut in half and waiting to be melted down. He will be restored to his old spot, it appears.
It’s close to the beach, and Ventnor is a nice town (or used to be, when I was living in that area), but I think 2 mil is a stretch.
Current name is West Wind Las Vegas 5 Drive-In. See the last photo posted on 2/17/08.
Also down to five screens.
There are some 2007 photos of the concession area on this site:
http://tinyurl.com/2575v9
Here’s an interesting article from the NY Times dated 11/14/07:
http://tinyurl.com/38chul
Here is the theater’s website:
http://www.carolinatheater-hickory.com/
This article about the current use of the theater is dated February 13, 2008:
http://tinyurl.com/ysvmkl
Here is an article about the church dated 12/23/07 from the Statesville Record & Landmark:
http://tinyurl.com/2emtl3
There are some photos on drive-ins.com:
http://www.drive-ins.com/theater/catnimi
It’s odd that I can’t figure out what happened to this theater, unless it had some other name later on. It seems like kind of an imposing structure just to fade away.
Here is a photo from the Mansfield Collection at the University of Montana. The date is given as 1949, which may or may not be correct. The first version of “The Ten Commandments” was released in 1923, while the second was released in 1956. The car in the photo looks more like mid fifties than late forties, so my hunch is that the photo is circa 1956:
http://tinyurl.com/2wgxpg
I think the street is Solano, not Soland.
Here is another site that discusses the event held on 2/15/08:
http://www.cstheatre.org/paramount.shtml
Here is a postcard, circa 1910, from the Missouri State Library:
http://tinyurl.com/2t846a
Here is a 1912 postcard from the Missouri State Library, showing the theater on the right:
http://tinyurl.com/3bpzp9
Here are some photos from February 2008:
http://tinyurl.com/36r8xf
http://tinyurl.com/34zfkv
http://tinyurl.com/3yfbzb
http://tinyurl.com/2skyfp
http://tinyurl.com/3d9lfu
http://tinyurl.com/2vc8t9
http://tinyurl.com/2mopqo
http://tinyurl.com/32ob3g
http://tinyurl.com/2rb4on
http://tinyurl.com/38cbfa
http://tinyurl.com/2qeypn
http://tinyurl.com/32ddxs
There are some photos of the theater towards the bottom of this page. An internet search shows Paramount Furniture at this address, but I can’t confirm that the furniture store has replaced the army-navy store:
http://tinyurl.com/2h4tw7
Here is a blog about the opening dated 10/29/07:
http://tinyurl.com/227lk7
Someone is selling programs from the Embassy on eBay:
http://tinyurl.com/24zbuq
Here is another LOC photo, no date given:
http://tinyurl.com/2mrqwe
Here is a larger version of the LOC photo at the top of the page:
http://tinyurl.com/2kz4gv
Here is a 1942 photo from the Library of Congress:
http://tinyurl.com/yq23gb
OK, thanks.
Here is a 1959 photo from the University of Montana archives:
http://tinyurl.com/23qdb4