If Branson is anywhere close to Route 66, I will take a look when I go there this summer. I am traversing the Old Road from Santa Monica to Chicago. There should be plenty of theaters, open and closed, along the way.
There was a color photo of the Capitol in today’s business section of the LA Times. The story concerned the Knight-Ridder newspaper chain, which I believe is headquartered in Aberdeen.
Here is a photo that I found purely by accident on the Denver Public Library website. The Orpheum Grand is in the middle of the photo, which was taken between 1895 and 1902: http://tinyurl.com/mcem2
I don’t think people realize the loss to a city when something like this theater is torn down, with nothing to replace it. Why do we have to look at a multi-acre parking lot for the next thirty years due to someone else’s shortsightedness? Another example is Coulter’s Department Store on Wilshire Boulevard, which was torn down in 1980 and remains a large hole in the ground as of today. Very sad.
I was watching a 1975 episode of the Rockford Files yesterday. In one scene, Rockford was driving down an unidentified street in the Valley. There was a theater with a large Pussycat marquee. I wonder if there was more than one Pussycat in the Valley in the mid 1970s.
Here are some photos:
http://tinyurl.com/rz79b
http://tinyurl.com/jqu2r
http://tinyurl.com/mxs9d
http://tinyurl.com/frk46
If Branson is anywhere close to Route 66, I will take a look when I go there this summer. I am traversing the Old Road from Santa Monica to Chicago. There should be plenty of theaters, open and closed, along the way.
Here is a webpage with some information:
http://www.discoverthedistrict.com/strollway.html
This is a very uninspiring name for a theater, kind of like going to a supermarket called the Food Trough. We are not commodities.
As of 2002, the building was occupied by H&R Block.
There was a color photo of the Capitol in today’s business section of the LA Times. The story concerned the Knight-Ridder newspaper chain, which I believe is headquartered in Aberdeen.
I saw Oliver in 1969. It must have been at the Shore. I can’t remember much about this theater, though. What was the cross-street?
And one from 1935:
http://tinyurl.com/nfbf8
Here is a photo from 1941:
http://tinyurl.com/qnxwn
Here is a photo that I found purely by accident on the Denver Public Library website. The Orpheum Grand is in the middle of the photo, which was taken between 1895 and 1902:
http://tinyurl.com/mcem2
These are the earliest photos in the collection, from 1900, 1902 and 1903:
http://tinyurl.com/gswp3
http://tinyurl.com/eeorp
http://tinyurl.com/glnyb
http://tinyurl.com/j6jaz
Here are some photos from the Denver Public Library:
http://tinyurl.com/ef6t8
http://tinyurl.com/etqap
http://tinyurl.com/jlkqz
http://tinyurl.com/khqmj
http://tinyurl.com/z3zp8
http://tinyurl.com/hnbf6
http://tinyurl.com/jy3po
http://tinyurl.com/hgyoe
http://tinyurl.com/gg7gh
Since Chuck’s link has expired, here is the expanded view of the photo above:
http://tinyurl.com/grkkl
Here are some photos from the Denver Public Library, circa 1913:
http://tinyurl.com/k58v8
http://tinyurl.com/f64on
Here is a 1985 photo:
http://tinyurl.com/fp9l2
Here is a photo from 1940:
http://tinyurl.com/gydhp
There was a premiere at this theater a few years ago:
http://www.dragonandthehawk.com/premiere.html
There is some interest in turning the theater into a community center:
http://tinyurl.com/l95lg
http://tinyurl.com/mfch6
And another article from the same source:
http://tinyurl.com/pgj48
Another photo:
http://flickr.com/photos/spoinknet/53915373/
Here is an article with some local history:
http://tinyurl.com/k6uxg
Here is some local history:
http://tinyurl.com/k6uxg
I don’t think people realize the loss to a city when something like this theater is torn down, with nothing to replace it. Why do we have to look at a multi-acre parking lot for the next thirty years due to someone else’s shortsightedness? Another example is Coulter’s Department Store on Wilshire Boulevard, which was torn down in 1980 and remains a large hole in the ground as of today. Very sad.
I was watching a 1975 episode of the Rockford Files yesterday. In one scene, Rockford was driving down an unidentified street in the Valley. There was a theater with a large Pussycat marquee. I wonder if there was more than one Pussycat in the Valley in the mid 1970s.
The consensus is that the name should be changed to the Star Theatre.