Here’s an interesting suit filed as a result of the theater’s construction in 1919. Scroll down past all the legal nonsense to get to the facts: http://tinyurl.com/38tefb
This lawsuit discusses the Broadway-Strand theater in Detroit in the late twenties. I imagine this is another theater, but I don’t have any additional information to rely on: http://tinyurl.com/37ojo3
Here is an article about asbestos problems during renovation of the Auditorium in 2003. As Jim points out, this is not the original Milwaukee, which has been demolished: http://tinyurl.com/2k2zdp
This article puts the Carolina in Virginia, but that’s wrong, obviously. There are references to some other theaters in the city as well: http://tinyurl.com/245hwk
Here is a photo advertised on eBay. My apologies if it’s a duplicate, but there are too many entries to go through for this theater: http://tinyurl.com/23cels
Welcomed by the Hon. Melvin C. Hazen, president of the Board of District Commissioners, and D.W. Gabelin, president of the Chillum Heights Citizens' Association, to a thickly populated residential section of northwest Washington, heretofore without its own neighborhood motion picture house, the Warner Brothers' handsome new Kennedy Theater last night threw open its doors to the public.
Here’s an interesting suit filed as a result of the theater’s construction in 1919. Scroll down past all the legal nonsense to get to the facts:
http://tinyurl.com/38tefb
This lawsuit discusses the Broadway-Strand theater in Detroit in the late twenties. I imagine this is another theater, but I don’t have any additional information to rely on:
http://tinyurl.com/37ojo3
Here is an article about asbestos problems during renovation of the Auditorium in 2003. As Jim points out, this is not the original Milwaukee, which has been demolished:
http://tinyurl.com/2k2zdp
So every payday the employee’s envelope says “Severance Pay”? Wouldn’t that be a little unsettling?
You have to buy the rest of the article if you want to read about Alvan Levenson’s legal woes:
http://tinyurl.com/2wag9b
Status should be closed/demolished. This May 2001 article discusses the UA and the decline of theater business in general:
http://tinyurl.com/2uyyb3
Costas Poulikidis bought the Gables in 1984 with redevelopment in mind:
http://tinyurl.com/22qtmv
Here is a re-post of Bryan’s 1928 photo:
http://tinyurl.com/2beu5z
Here are photos of the demolition:
http://tinyurl.com/38jzlb
There is a 1910 photo on this site of another Majestic Theater in Dallas, but that one may not have shown films:
http://tinyurl.com/2kjkg3
Preservation alert:
http://tinyurl.com/2juoar
Scroll down for before and after photos:
http://www.cajaeir.com/portfolio/photos.html
Here is TC’s photo as his link has failed:
http://www.builtstlouis.net/opos/townetheater.html
Here are additional photos of the Avalon:
http://www.builtstlouis.net/avalon.html
Here are photos of the demolition:
http://tinyurl.com/2umeby
Here is a photo currently being advertised on eBay:
http://tinyurl.com/229hsm
This article puts the Carolina in Virginia, but that’s wrong, obviously. There are references to some other theaters in the city as well:
http://tinyurl.com/245hwk
Here is an ad on eBay for a July 1960 schedule of films at the Ruby:
http://tinyurl.com/3bywdk
Here is a photo being advertised on eBay:
http://tinyurl.com/2rpxag
Here is a photo being advertised on eBay:
http://tinyurl.com/36encm
Here is a photo being advertised on eBay:
http://tinyurl.com/3dxch3
Here is a photo being advertised on eBay:
http://tinyurl.com/2tp7ju
Here is a photo advertised on eBay. My apologies if it’s a duplicate, but there are too many entries to go through for this theater:
http://tinyurl.com/23cels
Opened 6/16/39:
Welcomed by the Hon. Melvin C. Hazen, president of the Board of District Commissioners, and D.W. Gabelin, president of the Chillum Heights Citizens' Association, to a thickly populated residential section of northwest Washington, heretofore without its own neighborhood motion picture house, the Warner Brothers' handsome new Kennedy Theater last night threw open its doors to the public.
It was pretty hard to read. I must have walked up and down Fairfax for ten years before I noticed the writing on the wall.