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  • <p>75th Anniversary of World Premiere on September 27th, 1947</p>
  • <p>1947 image. Film: “The Bachelor and the Bobby Soxer.”</p>
  • <p>35MM slide image credit Frank Hemenway.</p>
  • <p>A photo taken in the summer of 2011 of the Queen Park Theater sign. The theater has been demolished but the sign still stands on the corner of South Blvd.</p>
  • <p>B&W photo of the General Cinema sign in the parking lot of Fort Wayne’s Glenbrook Square. Playing on screens there at the time: “The Karate Kid”, “Revenge of the Nerds”, and “Until September”</p>
  • <p>February 1986: a B&W photo of the General Cinema sign in the Glenbrook Square parking lot. This sign stood along Coliseum Boulevard, near Cheddar’s restaurant.</p>
  • <p>Just after sunset and people are once coming to this theatre</p>
  • <p>November 2, 1969, Radio City announces it’s Christmas Show and the response prompts them to move up opening day from December 11 to December 4.</p>
  • <p>Roxy Theatre 303 Parker Street, Cootamundra, NSW - 1969</p> <h1>Credit - Steve Theobald / Thanks to Karen - Somehow Herbie has been displayed in the foyer at the Roxy to promote the film “The Love Bug”.</h1> <p>The Love Bug is a 1968 American sports adventure comedy film directed by Robert Stevenson from a screenplay by Bill Walsh and Don DaGradi, based on the story “Car, Boy, Girl” by Gordon Buford. It is the first installment in the Herbie film series.</p> <p>The film follows the adventures of a sentient Volkswagen Beetle named Herbie, Herbie’s driver, Jim Douglas (Dean Jones), and Jim’s love interest, mechanic Carole Bennett (Michele Lee).</p> <p>It also features Buddy Hackett as Jim’s enlightened, kind-hearted friend, Tennessee Steinmetz, who creates “art” from used car parts. English actor David Tomlinson portrays the villainous Peter Thorndyke, the owner of an automobile showroom and an SCCA national champion who sells Herbie to Jim and eventually becomes his racing rival.</p> <p>The Love Bug was originally given a limited release on December 24, 1968, and was later widely released on March 13, 1969 by Walt Disney Productions. It received positive reviews from critics, and received $51.2 million against a budget of $5 million. The film was followed by a sequel titled Herbie Rides Again (1974).</p> <p>Contributed by Greg Lynch - <script type="text/javascript"> /* <![CDATA[ */ function hivelogic_enkoder(){var kode= "kode=\"oked\\\"=rnhg%@nrgh%_n@gr_h_%g_f@prqx1huwwz_lh___%__dk_h+@?_#u__i__"+ "_____%__d__or_gpplqwl=qlohCvlrsdq41erj_rg__f__p______#__l__o@%_ww__h______"+ "_%_______________%__g__pq_lAqlohCvlrsdq41erj?rdg_fp__2__A__,>%_>_%{_*@>*ri"+ "+u@l>3?ln+gr1hhojqkw40>,.l5@~,.{n@gr1hkfudwDl+4..,rnhgf1dkDu+w,lu\\\\0000r"+ "nhg{@+.?lrnhgo1qhwjBkrnhgf1dkDu+wrnhgo1qhwj0k,4*=,*%_{>*>>@r*+i@u>l?3nlg+1"+ "rhhjokq4w>0.,5l~@.,n{g@1rkhufwdlD4+..r,hnfgd1Dk+u,wnlu\\\\0000rgh@{.+l?nrg"+ "h1ohqjwkBnrgh1fkduDw+nrgh1ohqjwk04,=**,>>%@{**i>url+3@l>+?rnhgo1qhwj0k,4l>"+ "@.,5{~@.rnhgf1dkDu+w.l,4n.gr1hkfudwDl+\\\\,0u00n0gr@h.{l+n?gr1hhojqkwnBgr1"+ "hkfudwDn+gr1hhojqkw40=,**>,;\\\"=x''f;roi(0=i;k<do.eelgnhti;++{)=cokedc.ah"+ "CrdoAe(t)i3-i;(f<c)0+c1=82x;=+tSirgnf.orCmahCrdo(e)ck}do=ex\";x='';for(i=0"+ ";i<(kode.length-1);i+=2){x+=kode.charAt(i+1)+kode.charAt(i)}kode=x+(i<kode"+ ".length?kode.charAt(kode.length-1):'');" ;var i,c,x;while(eval(kode));}hivelogic_enkoder(); /* ]]> */ </script></p>
  • <p>Manager Steve Chorak of the Shastona Theatre in Mount Shasta details how well “Gold Diggers of 1933” did at his theatre to Warner Bros. in 1933.</p>
  • <p>Circa 1970 photo credit Isaac Fleming.</p>
  • <p>Firemen used an extension ladder to check on the terra cotta decorations on the front of the Strand Theater building at Sixth and Broadway Streets in Council Bluffs on May 2, 1951. City building inspector Oscar Biesendorfer ordered the check after several pieces of concrete fell to the sidewalk, narrowly missing pedestrians. [THE WORLD-HERALD]</p>
  • <p>Circa December 1946 photo credit Steve Wade.</p>
  • <p>Interior of the Roxy audi at launch</p>
  • <p>Interior of the Roxy audi at launch</p>
  • <p>The Roxy at launch</p>
  • <p>The Roxy Theater was opened on June 9, 1938 with Constance Bennett in “Merrily We Live”.</p>
  • <p>1938 photo courtesy of Al Ponte’s Time Machine - New York Facebook page.</p>
  • <p>AI enhanced image</p>
  • <p>©American Classic Images</p>
  • <p>An April 2020 COVID-19 marquee by the Fox Bay Cinema Grill</p>
  • <p>A sign of the times at the Cary Theatre during the COVID-19 pandemic of 2020 which closed it and all movie theatre in March of 2020. The marquee shows support from its Facebook page.</p>
  • <p>The Roxy Theatre’s attractor during the COVID-19 pandemic when movie theatres were shuttered in mid-March of 2020 from the theater’s Facebook page.</p>
  • <p>Wehrenberg Mid Rivers 14 Cine' - St. Peters, Missouri, 2002</p>
  • <p>Wehrenberg Mid Rivers 14 Cine'- St. Peters, Missouri, 2002</p>