ANACONDA, Oct. 12.â€" The building formerly occupied by the Fuller Drug store at 415 East Park avenue Will be remodeled Into a modern theater, it was announced today by Joseph A. English, manager of the Washoe and Bluebird theaters here and purchaser of the East Park avenue building. Second-run pictures will be shown at the theater on its completion.
Joe, I’m not making light of your typo, as I make enough of them myself, but “ruinewal” does sound like a combination of ruin and renewal, which is quite often the case.
I haven’t been inside this one. I don’t think it’s ever been part of the last remainingf seats program. I’ve been to the Orpheum and the Los Angeles, and I think one of the shows was at the Million Dollar a few years ago.
This photo had me stumped for a while. If you compare it to the one directly above, it appears that the smaller buildings were the site of the Subway Terminal building, which was completed by 1928 if the date on the preceding picture is correct. The College unfortunately would be a little further south and is out of the picture: http://tinyurl.com/2enk47
Here is a March 2006 article about the history of the Linda Lea:
http://tinyurl.com/ywovkq
Here is another photo of the Rivoli:
http://tinyurl.com/257geq
This artist is selling paintings of the theater:
http://tinyurl.com/yp7y22
415 E. Park was the address of the third theater in Anaconda. The Bluebird must have had a different Park Avenue address.
This is from the Montana Standard, 10/13/39:
SMELTER CITY TO HAVE NEW THEATER
ANACONDA, Oct. 12.â€" The building formerly occupied by the Fuller Drug store at 415 East Park avenue Will be remodeled Into a modern theater, it was announced today by Joseph A. English, manager of the Washoe and Bluebird theaters here and purchaser of the East Park avenue building. Second-run pictures will be shown at the theater on its completion.
Here is another photo of the Arena:
http://tinyurl.com/2e55yb
Good thing they didn’t run out of Os:
http://www.drive-ins.com/pictures/nctbrig03.jpg
Here are some recollections of the neighborhood from a local:
http://tinyurl.com/2cxg26
LM’s photo of 8/11/05 has moved to this location:
http://tinyurl.com/283x9g
It looks like the theater in the photo starts with an I. Then again, it could be an old ad for a theater in a different location.
The Tropic was taken over by a church from 1991 to 1993, according to the church website:
http://tinyurl.com/2dhlxh
I should have said “There was another old theater on the right side of the street, that said ‘theatre’ on the side of the building”. My mistake.
Here is an undated photo of the Fox:
http://tinyurl.com/2p5oex
There was another old theater on Main Street in the 1950s. No clue as to the identity, though. It may have been a playhouse:
http://tinyurl.com/2vhf4y
So it would be part of the “No Remaining Seats” program.
It would be good on some of those aerial photos.
Then why the church sign?
How many drive-ins did Pacific sell in the mid 1990s? I remember the one in Culver City on Sepulveda disappearing around the same time.
Was the Mayan ever used for a church? There’s a sign on the theater in this 1950 photo that says “Immanuel”:
http://jpg2.lapl.org/pics07/00013103.jpg
Protest, 1950. It looks like the zoom function has returned:
http://tinyurl.com/2dzy5v
Joe, I’m not making light of your typo, as I make enough of them myself, but “ruinewal” does sound like a combination of ruin and renewal, which is quite often the case.
I haven’t been inside this one. I don’t think it’s ever been part of the last remainingf seats program. I’ve been to the Orpheum and the Los Angeles, and I think one of the shows was at the Million Dollar a few years ago.
Read Joe’s comment of 7/12/07.
Here is a 1920 photo from the USC archive. I assume the signs are advertising the impending construction of the RKO:
http://tinyurl.com/2s6qzm
This photo had me stumped for a while. If you compare it to the one directly above, it appears that the smaller buildings were the site of the Subway Terminal building, which was completed by 1928 if the date on the preceding picture is correct. The College unfortunately would be a little further south and is out of the picture:
http://tinyurl.com/2enk47