Photos favorited by 50sSNIPES

  • <p>May 2013</p>
  • <p>1950’s “Free Coke” card with “Sprite Boy” image.</p>
  • <p>Recent photo of building still standing. We rented out the building for the Eleventh Hour Haunted House in 2001-2002 and had to relocate in order for the building to be torn down for the college but it never happened.</p>
  • <p>From the July 2, 1947 issue of The Pantagraph of Bloomington. Not my copyright, of course, and possibly in the public domain.</p>
  • <p>Opening scene from “Suddenly!” (1954).</p>
  • <p>July 23rd, 1948</p>
  • <p>Nov 26,1954 grand opening ad.</p>
  • <p>Aug 15,1947 Grand Opening Night</p>
  • <p>The Hook Theatre launched May 9, 1947 with “Song of the South.”</p>
  • <p>March 31st, 1971 grand opening ad as Cinema III</p>
  • <p>Stardust Drive-In in the background.</p>
  • <p>June 2nd, 1949</p>
  • <p>May 3rd, 1949 grand opening ad</p>
  • <p>D.O. “Boyd” and Imogene Milligan built The Poly. It opened on May 24, 1951 with “Ma and Pa Kettle on the Farm” supported by a a cartoon and newsreel on a thirty-year lease.</p>
  • <p>GENERAL CINEMA WESTGATE CINEMA l & ll, 2/1984. later made both were spit to four theaters. the theater is now gone other have been built by others.</p>
  • <p>Taken late 1993.</p>
  • <p>Credit goes to Cinematour</p>
  • <p>GENERAL CINEMA CORP. OPEN THIS UNITE</p>
  • <p>The old jumbo MEADOWS A, D & O are visible. Bagel Nosh replaced Horn & Hardart and was in turn replaced by the Future Diner wher Bill Clinton once campaigned.</p>
  • <p>Likely 1983 photo credit Brian Biekofsky.</p>