“DEEP THROAT” actually went from the the Trans-Lux 85 to the 86th Street East. It did not show at the UA East 85th Street unless it was years later when it was making the rounds with “THE DEVIL IN MISS JONES” as a second feature.
G. Burwell, I remember those little soda cups from the Wometco Vending machines at the Miami Theatre Downtown in the sixties. Sometimes the cup would flip upside down as it dropped and the soda (RC Cola?) would simply spill into the drain. Sometimes there was some ice first, most of which promptly bounced out of the cup as well when it dropped.
miamiguy, since the Rex closed only a year before the Florida opened, you are most likely correct that this was most likely a modern conversion of the Rex.
The Rex operated from 1931 to 1947 and the Florida from 1948 to 1974.
Here is a 1948 photo, the year it became the Florida.
The Gables opened in 1936 and closed in 1981. A previous Coral Gables theatre also operated on Ponce De Leon Boulevard, possibly on the site of the Coral.
Article on the Byron/Carlyle opening, 1968.
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Opening day ads for the Mayfair, 1932:
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Newspaper blurb on the Wometco Twin construction:
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Articles on the Sunny Isles opening:
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Article on Biscayne Plaza opening in 1926.
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A photo of the Dixie Drive-In can be found here:
http://www.pbase.com/donboyd/image/81425318
“DEEP THROAT” actually went from the the Trans-Lux 85 to the 86th Street East. It did not show at the UA East 85th Street unless it was years later when it was making the rounds with “THE DEVIL IN MISS JONES” as a second feature.
G. Burwell, I remember those little soda cups from the Wometco Vending machines at the Miami Theatre Downtown in the sixties. Sometimes the cup would flip upside down as it dropped and the soda (RC Cola?) would simply spill into the drain. Sometimes there was some ice first, most of which promptly bounced out of the cup as well when it dropped.
The Tivoli opened in 1927 and closed in 1988.
miamiguy, since the Rex closed only a year before the Florida opened, you are most likely correct that this was most likely a modern conversion of the Rex.
The Rex operated from 1931 to 1947 and the Florida from 1948 to 1974.
Here is a 1948 photo, the year it became the Florida.
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It may have been the last one this large but hardly the last single screen even in Manhattan.
Quite true, mp775.
Once the Sunshine on Houston re-opened it made this theatre even less viable for the newbys.
The Boulevard operated from 1940-1970 at which time it became the Pussycat.
The Kitty Kat appeared in 1973 and became known as the Pussycat-2 in 1975.
Here is how I see it:
Rosetta 1926-1971
2nd Avenue Art – 1972-73
King Art – 1973
Rex Art -1974-1984
What makes you think it would do well with 38 Screens already on the same block?
Broadway is hurting badly during this recession and several theatres are dark.
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That’s about right. There was only one GABLES but also one MIRACLE.
The Community opened in 1923 and closed in 1940. It was apparently Miami Beach’s first full time movie theatre.
The Plaza Art reportedly had front doors taken from the Paramount in New York after it closed. It closed as a movie theatre in 1976.
The intro should be altered as follows:
“The Capitol name came back briefly at the Harlem Theatre in the early seventies for a brief unsuccessful test as a blaxploitation house.”
The Biscayne Plaza closed in 1951. It was renamed Plaza when Wometco took it over in 1935.
The Tower opened in 1926 and recently hosted screenings for the Miami Film Festival.
The Coral opened in 1941 and closed in 1982. A previous Coral Gables Theatre may have operated on the same site from 1927 to 1936.
That former one was a Famous Players/Lasky 1500 seat house.
The Gables opened in 1936 and closed in 1981. A previous Coral Gables theatre also operated on Ponce De Leon Boulevard, possibly on the site of the Coral.
The Parkway open in 1938 and closed in 1982.