The Pitt was a great theater until they started dividing and sub-dividing it. You can’t blame the owners as to make money you needed more than one screen by the 70s. Nevertheless, it was a great theater when it was a single screen. I can remember seeing “The Jungle Book” there among others.
The Robert E. Lee hosted some great movies in its day. I saw the Poseidon Adventure, the Towering Inferno, Star Trek the Motion Picture, and many others at this great theater. If you lived on the Lakefront and wanted to see a top line movie on the big screen….the Robert E. Lee was it. Unfortunately, as with all single screen theaters, it couldn’t keep up with the multiplex’s. But I still think of it as one of the best movie theaters I ever experienced.
I went to the Gentilly when it was the Gentilly Orleans in the 1960s and 1970s. I remember seeing “The Hot Rock” there with Robert Redford. What stood out to me as a teenager was that it had a restaurant attached where folks could by beer and then come in and watch a movie. They also would show previews not approved by the MPAA.
The Pitt was a great theater until they started dividing and sub-dividing it. You can’t blame the owners as to make money you needed more than one screen by the 70s. Nevertheless, it was a great theater when it was a single screen. I can remember seeing “The Jungle Book” there among others.
The Robert E. Lee hosted some great movies in its day. I saw the Poseidon Adventure, the Towering Inferno, Star Trek the Motion Picture, and many others at this great theater. If you lived on the Lakefront and wanted to see a top line movie on the big screen….the Robert E. Lee was it. Unfortunately, as with all single screen theaters, it couldn’t keep up with the multiplex’s. But I still think of it as one of the best movie theaters I ever experienced.
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I went to the Gentilly when it was the Gentilly Orleans in the 1960s and 1970s. I remember seeing “The Hot Rock” there with Robert Redford. What stood out to me as a teenager was that it had a restaurant attached where folks could by beer and then come in and watch a movie. They also would show previews not approved by the MPAA.
Happy memories from those days,
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