This site has the address right at the top of the page, but the poster they found looks like a different theater, on Randolph Street: http://tinyurl.com/2ns63l
This is from the Warsaw History organizations minutes of 11/13/07. They mean “marquees” instead of marquis, obviously, unless they’re going to have some noblemen stand around with billboards:
WARSAW CINEMA. Discussed Paul Penner’s possible purchase of the Warsaw Cinema. He intends to renovate for live performances and movies. The cinema renovations are expected to be completed by September of 08. Mr. Penner, however, has enthusiastically given permission to allow the July HWA festival to be advertised on the theater’s marquis.
Here are photos from 1961 and 1984, respectively:
http://tinyurl.com/3dae92
http://tinyurl.com/39b4ae
Here is a photo, circa late 1920s:
http://tinyurl.com/37crw2
Here is a 1950 photo:
http://tinyurl.com/2d5osb
Here is an undated photo:
http://tinyurl.com/ystd39
The mural photos were posted by Lost Memory on 8/8/05. They don’t need to be reposted.
The bottom photo is the Civic. The theater visible at the top is the Tower, also in Detroit:
http://tinyurl.com/yvhxld
Here is a 1936 photo:
http://tinyurl.com/3b3h4d
Here is a 1939 photo:
http://tinyurl.com/2z9ey7
Understood. My mistake.
Eu errei de bairro. I made a mistake with the neighborhood. Obrigado.
Thanks.
Correct.
Don, is Royce Blankenship any relation to Wallace Blankenship?
And the owner.
Charles, I was referring to the Gayety, not the Eastown. Sorry if I wasn’t clear.
Thanks to both. Status should be closed.
Isn’t there a racetrack in this town called Ruidoso Downs? I vaguely remember that name from my past days as a horseplayer.
Does anybody know if this theater ever showed films? I’ve been looking for a listing here on CT, but no luck:
http://tinyurl.com/2lqq8w
This site has the address right at the top of the page, but the poster they found looks like a different theater, on Randolph Street:
http://tinyurl.com/2ns63l
There are some photos of the old facade here:
http://tinyurl.com/2qtgxa
This was part of the Marcus Theater circuit in the early sixties.
Some additional information here:
http://tinyurl.com/3clrkw
This drive-in was part of the March Brothers circuit in the early 1960s, headquartered in Vermillion, South Dakota.
There was a March Brothers theater circuit, headquartered in Vermillion, in the 1960s. Perhaps that had something to do with the name of this theater.
This is from the Warsaw History organizations minutes of 11/13/07. They mean “marquees” instead of marquis, obviously, unless they’re going to have some noblemen stand around with billboards:
WARSAW CINEMA. Discussed Paul Penner’s possible purchase of the Warsaw Cinema. He intends to renovate for live performances and movies. The cinema renovations are expected to be completed by September of 08. Mr. Penner, however, has enthusiastically given permission to allow the July HWA festival to be advertised on the theater’s marquis.