I spent my younger years in the Chatham area, lived at 8316 Rhodes av from 1938 to 1953 and spent many hours with my family and friends at this fine theater. The Rhodes had a great soda fountain in the same building one door to the west and was located across 79th street from the famous Riley’s Trick Shop on Rhodes Av a few doors south of 79th Street. My friends and I would get tickets to Saturday afternoon matinees at Dixon School, buy our pop corn and candy and watch the Andy Hardy serials, Tom Mix etc etc. What a great place.
Does anyone know exactly who’s prints were in the lobby and possibly what happened to them when the building was demolished?
I spent my younger years in the Chatham area, lived at 8316 Rhodes av from 1938 to 1953 and spent many hours with my family and friends at this fine theater. The Rhodes had a great soda fountain in the same building one door to the west and was located across 79th street from the famous Riley’s Trick Shop on Rhodes Av a few doors south of 79th Street. My friends and I would get tickets to Saturday afternoon matinees at Dixon School, buy our pop corn and candy and watch the Andy Hardy serials, Tom Mix etc etc. What a great place.
Does anyone know exactly who’s prints were in the lobby and possibly what happened to them when the building was demolished?
Bill Pierce