Comments from kencmcintyre

This 10/7/07 article presumably refers to the Mandan as the other theater on Main Street is still open:
http://tinyurl.com/2ag5g8

The portholes remind me of the Vern Theater on Olympic in Los Angeles.

I don’t remember what my source was when I added the theater. I can’t tell you if it was N. or S.

There is a photo of a building at 311 N. Polk on this site. I don’t know if it’s the former Capitol:
http://www.sealing.com/locations/

Wal-Mart and urban sprawl in Salida, circa 1994:
http://tinyurl.com/26v6hr

Here is a photo:
http://tinyurl.com/3b8k2d

This is from the NY Times, dated 2/22/85:

‘Heimat’ Clocks 16 Hours

This year’s New Directors/New Films series will test the mettle of potential audiences by offering Edgar Reitz’s ‘'Heimat,’‘ a German film that spans 63 years in the life of a fictional German village. ’‘Heimat’‘ is 16 hours long – yes, 16 hours. It will be shown in four four-hour segments in the Museum of Modern Art’s Titus 1 Theater over two successive weekends, beginning April 6-7; it will also be shown twice, in two eight-hour segments, in the smaller Titus 2 auditorium on the same dates. The New Directors series begins on March 29 and runs through April 14.

A Staten Island Premiere

Staten Island, not often a site for movie premieres, will be host to the opening engagement of Sandy Tung’s ‘'Marriage’‘ today since Mr. Tung is a native son. In addition to the Amboy Twin on Staten Island, the film opens at the Embassy 72d Street theater in Manhattan today.

Mr. Tung made his largely autobiographical film about a marital breakup on Staten Island, and shot much of it in his own apartment. The film had a budget of $125,000, and was pretty much financed by the director himself. He has already visited the Amboy Twin to provide it with handbills about his film, and he concedes he’s a little worried. ‘'The film isn’t high-concept,’‘ he says. ’‘It doesn’t have a lot of sex and violence, it doesn’t have big stars and it has what you could call a grown-up theme. I think people in the suburbs might be interested in it, since that’s where the characters are from. But I go the movies in the suburbs all the time, and the average audience can’t be older than 18.’'

Here is a 1965 ad:
http://tinyurl.com/ywfy8w

This ad is dated 1/29/31:
http://tinyurl.com/2awy93

This 1/24/31 ad in the LA Times preceded the formal opening of the theater:
http://tinyurl.com/2zggqb

Ignore the incorrect caption at the top. I thought this USC archives photo was interesting if you note the “Homer Laughlin building” sign next to the MD. There was also a Homer Laughlin building and theater in Long Beach.
http://tinyurl.com/23bt48

The theater is nice. The Grove itself is kind of artificial for me. I prefer a real city street as opposed to a manufactured one. Fortunately the Farmer’s Market was not obliterated and co-exists, more or less, with the complex.