Comments from kencmcintyre

Here is the theater’s website:
http://www.libertyvandalia.com/

Here is a larger version of one of the PAB thumbnails posted by Jack Ferryin 2006. The photo is from the Irvin Glazer collection:
http://tinyurl.com/2xlyha

No thanks. It snowed in Seattle on Christmas day, and that was enough to hold me for another twenty years or so. Bleh.

This theater was part of the Kallet Theaters chain in the early 1960s.

Trouble in River City:
http://tinyurl.com/2n74gv

One of the posters on the Chino Theater page stated that the Woods was used as an army surplus store in the seventies and was razed in the 1990s.

I was poking around there today. Whatever kind of retail being planned is proceeding rapidly. Today some automatic doors were installed in the entrance. I could see the auditorium, and it looks like it’s been completely stripped.

I went with my parents to see “Animal House” in 1978, when I was sixteen. They had a good time, I didn’t. I was cringing at some of the scenes knowing my mother was sitting next to me.

Here is a photo from the 1960s. The theater was being used for zoology lectures given by a local professor:
http://tinyurl.com/2oybyc

Raymond, this photo is supposed to be from 1956. The film “Wichita” was released in the US in 1955. The marquee says “King’s Theatre”, so I’m wondering if this is the same as the Ying King. There would be a discrepancy in the dates:
http://tinyurl.com/28tbyx

I saw some parade photos from last year going down the 100 block of E. Main towards the 200 block, but the photographer was on the even side of the street, so all the photos showed odd street numbers.

This page has a photo, circa mid 40s:
http://tinyurl.com/2wnkx6

226 E. Main is currently a law office.