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  • <p>AI enhanced image at nite</p>
  • <p>Apollo Astronaut Capt. Thomas Stafford waves at his friends during Southwestern State College homecoming parade at which he was honored Saturday. (AI enhanced)</p>
  • <p>1986</p>
  • <p>Taken by me, summer 2006</p>
  • <p>The Theatre screening a movie</p>
  • <p>Photo of the Plaza Theater on the last night it was open as a movie Theater.</p>
  • <p>PHOTOS SHOWS 36 BUT THIS WAS DONE FOR THE FILMING OF THE 1984 BACHELOR PARTY, WITH TOM HAWKS, I WAS MANN THEATERS C.O.O. I WAS THERE AT OPENING</p>
  • <p>June 18, 1980 photo credit Richard A. Rygh, originally published in Capital Times. Courtesy Wisconsin Historical Society. “View down street towards a large crowd gathering in a line outside the Orpheum Theatre on State Street for a free 10AM Madison premiere of The Empire Strikes Back sponsored in part by WMAD-FM. A radio station van is on the left.”</p> <p>https://www.wisconsinhistory.org/Records/Image/IM109027</p>
  • <p>Source: Motion Picture Exhibitor, 1965</p>
  • <p>1940s photo via Randall Friedrich‎.</p>
  • <p>1970s photo credit Des Plaines History Center. Des Plaines Theatre left of center.</p>
  • <p>August 9, 2025 100ths Anniversary photo credit Roger Halvorsen.</p>
  • <p>Full size 1951 photo courtesy of the Hemmings Motor News Facebook page.</p>
  • <p>Plaza Cinemas. Corner of 31st Street and 1st Ave.<br>Circa 1987.</p>
  • <p>Redoing the marquee. The McHenry must have been called the Skyline DI at one time.</p>
  • <p>1949 photo courtesy of Henry F. Beck.</p>
  • <p>December 2008</p>
  • <p>November 1987 shot of the Six Forks, during its Cineplex Odeon days.</p>
  • <p>November 8, 1963</p>
  • <p>Interior of the large auditorium, circa 1990. Photo by photographer Josh Burdick, used with permission</p>