The Granada was a huge theater with 1,000 seats. It was not a small neighborhood theater. It was first run. Cinema Treasures shows it as having 600 seats.
A smaller theater with the same Granada name was at the location at least since 1932. A major rebuilding occurred in 1940 and the theater reopened that year with a six page advertisement in the local paper. The new theater had a glassed in “cry room” with ten theater seats.
The article Tinseltoes refers to has this information and more and has it with 1,000 seats.
The Shoco location is also not correct. Galen Boyer Pontiac was in that small space. The Granada was right next door on the corner of Maple and Spring Street. The Granada Sweet Shop was an integral part of the building offering candies and popcorn to the theater patrons. After the theater was torn down, the cab company located on that corner with a pavement area to park cabs. Eventually, another building was built on that corner right next to Shoco. I dont know what a matting trick is but the theater was closed for a few days in the 50s to install a wide screen. I and my friends religiously patronized the Granada every Friday night in those 50s. Associated Theaters, Inc., owned the Granada in its heyday. That company also owned the Electric, Plaza, Maywood, and Englewood.
The Granada was a huge theater with 1,000 seats. It was not a small neighborhood theater. It was first run. Cinema Treasures shows it as having 600 seats.
A smaller theater with the same Granada name was at the location at least since 1932. A major rebuilding occurred in 1940 and the theater reopened that year with a six page advertisement in the local paper. The new theater had a glassed in “cry room” with ten theater seats.
The article Tinseltoes refers to has this information and more and has it with 1,000 seats.
The Shoco location is also not correct. Galen Boyer Pontiac was in that small space. The Granada was right next door on the corner of Maple and Spring Street. The Granada Sweet Shop was an integral part of the building offering candies and popcorn to the theater patrons. After the theater was torn down, the cab company located on that corner with a pavement area to park cabs. Eventually, another building was built on that corner right next to Shoco. I dont know what a matting trick is but the theater was closed for a few days in the 50s to install a wide screen. I and my friends religiously patronized the Granada every Friday night in those 50s. Associated Theaters, Inc., owned the Granada in its heyday. That company also owned the Electric, Plaza, Maywood, and Englewood.