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  • <p>1971 re-release of “Lady and the Tramp”, via Scott Cisco.</p>
  • <p>Phorgraphed in 1985 by Tim O'Neill courtesy DavidZornig.</p>
  • <p>March 1974 photo credit Chicago’s Extinct Businesses Facebook page.</p>
  • <p>Woodfield 4 photographed in January 1987.  Courtesy crane699</p>
  • <p>Barrington Square box-office.   1984.  Chicago Tribune.</p>
  • <p>February, 1984. From L., Manager Paul Kalas, Matt Statsny, Robin Witlum, Debbie Hamlin, Rich Garner, Dave Iwanski.</p>
  • <p>Undated photo courtesy of Tim Booth.</p>
  • <p>As Miller Theatre, 1954 photo credit Don Peasley Photo Collection.
              Courtesy McHenry County Historical Society.</p>
  • <p>November 14th, 1991</p>
  • <p>November 11th, 1982</p>
  • <p>Grand Theatre 164-168 Murray Street, Perth, WA closes & becomes a Pizza Showtime Theatre Restaurant.</p>
            
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  • <p>A kind of odd promo for the Walter Lantz cartune “Cow Cow Boogie” features a live calf outside the Palace Theater.</p>
  • <p>1942 ad for the Boise playing “Down in San Diego” and using Walter Lantz' Woody Woodpecker to draw eyeballs.</p>
  • <p>Opened May 18, 1991 with some free preview movies.</p>
  • <p>June 30, 1989 shot of the AMC Hampden 8</p>
  • <p>As the Paramount, photo credit Bill Gabel.</p>
  • <p>Opened on February 18th, 1959</p>
  • <p>May 28, 1947 shot of the Major Theatre projection booth at launch in Dallas.</p>
  • <p>1958 photo credit Classic Hollywood/Los Angeles/SFV Facebook page.
              Has Warners and Wiltern signage.</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>On July 7, 2021, The President Arrived In Crystal Lake. Here’s A Shot Of The Raue Welcoming the President To Crystal Lake.</p>
  • <p>Plymouth Theatre marquee on the right, beneath and beyond the LIQUOR sign.
              Donald Sutherland and Elliott Gould in “M<em>A</em>S*H”.
              September 1970 photo courtesy Sheboygan County Historical Research Center.</p>
  • <p>February 10, 1978</p>