A couple comments from a newbie, but an Aspinwall expatriate:
Ken’s photo is seen in the 1992 Aspinwall History book on page 89, with this comment: “In 1953, Scouts carried the colors past the Embassy Theater during the Memorial Day Parade” and the photo was “courtesy of Anne Meyer”.
On page 96 of same publication, is an Embassy doorknob-hanger, for a week in April of unknown year. However Mon/Tues 15-16 Apr headlined “She Wouldn’t Say Yes ” with Rosalind Russell (which came out in ‘45) and a news-short “Hitler Lives”. IMDb says this was made in Dec 45, so this hanger was likely for Apr 1946. According to the hanger, the Embassy was not open on Sunday; I didn’t remember that!
The caption for the Google search at top is incorrect. The Embassy began at the walkway between the Municipal Bldg and [later] Town and Country Portraits [which in the search occupies the front western end of the Embassy.] The front eastern end shows in the search as Lynnlot Miniatures. A pizza store occupied the 1st Street end of the once-Embassy for a while. Edblank is correct that Mulligan’s was once La Cresta; and back in 40s it was a long closed Chinese laundry, at least in 1930 run by the Yee family, according to the census.
The Embassy was a great movie house for the kids of Aspinwall. Saturday afternoon matinees were GRAND. They also included serials: every Saturday an new episode of Tarzan, the Lone Ranger, Buster Crabbe, and more!
Questions:
1. Who knows when the Embassy was built?
2. Who knows the name of the first theater built in Aspinwall, which, according to the 1967 “Diamond Jubilee Historical Book” of Aspinwall by Rachel Cook, opened in July 1910 in “the first commercial building in the Brilliant Avenue business district” which was located in “a three-story building on the western side of the street, halfway between Freeport and First Street”??? [Later Dr. Nauhaus had his dental office on the 2nd floor above what had been this first theater.]
A couple comments from a newbie, but an Aspinwall expatriate:
Ken’s photo is seen in the 1992 Aspinwall History book on page 89, with this comment: “In 1953, Scouts carried the colors past the Embassy Theater during the Memorial Day Parade” and the photo was “courtesy of Anne Meyer”.
On page 96 of same publication, is an Embassy doorknob-hanger, for a week in April of unknown year. However Mon/Tues 15-16 Apr headlined “She Wouldn’t Say Yes ” with Rosalind Russell (which came out in ‘45) and a news-short “Hitler Lives”. IMDb says this was made in Dec 45, so this hanger was likely for Apr 1946. According to the hanger, the Embassy was not open on Sunday; I didn’t remember that!
The caption for the Google search at top is incorrect. The Embassy began at the walkway between the Municipal Bldg and [later] Town and Country Portraits [which in the search occupies the front western end of the Embassy.] The front eastern end shows in the search as Lynnlot Miniatures. A pizza store occupied the 1st Street end of the once-Embassy for a while. Edblank is correct that Mulligan’s was once La Cresta; and back in 40s it was a long closed Chinese laundry, at least in 1930 run by the Yee family, according to the census.
The Embassy was a great movie house for the kids of Aspinwall. Saturday afternoon matinees were GRAND. They also included serials: every Saturday an new episode of Tarzan, the Lone Ranger, Buster Crabbe, and more!
Questions: 1. Who knows when the Embassy was built?
2. Who knows the name of the first theater built in Aspinwall, which, according to the 1967 “Diamond Jubilee Historical Book” of Aspinwall by Rachel Cook, opened in July 1910 in “the first commercial building in the Brilliant Avenue business district” which was located in “a three-story building on the western side of the street, halfway between Freeport and First Street”??? [Later Dr. Nauhaus had his dental office on the 2nd floor above what had been this first theater.]