Thank you, minimomoser. BTW do we know each other? How about you Wyomingkid? I tell my grandkids about the Vogue all the time, and how cool it was to have a little movie theater right in the neighborhood.
I may have missed a previous explanation, and if so I am sorry for being repetitious. Mt. Healthy was originally named Mt. Pleasant. But cholera epidemics in 1832 and 1850 changed that. While as many as 1 in 8 people in Cincinnati were dying of the disease, very few were afflicted in Mt. Pleasant. At an elevation of over 800 feet and primarily rolling hills, there was little area for water to stand. That coupled with their own abundant well water supplies, proved to make Mt. Pleasant a very healthy place to live. Persons 80 years old were common. Soon, people just started referring to the town as Mt. Healthy, and after 1884 the town adopted the name for all matters.
Okay… First of all, the Vogue Theater was not next door to the Vogue Cafe. The Vogue Cafe was, and still is, on the SW corner of Vine and Mary Streets. The theater was north of there, about halfway to West Mills Avenue. In the photo above, the theater would have been to the extreme right of the photo, next to that gray apartment house. The cafe is at the extreme left, just off the photo. There were several buildings in between them. The building immediately next the the Theater was an old storefront in use only as storage for Barthel’s Hardware, which was across the street on the SE corner of Vine and Hillsdale.
As to the stage curtains; yes, they were still there in the 60s and I remember paying a quarter to get into the Saturday matinee. Correct, no balcony.
I am looking for an actual photo of the old theater. If anyone has one, how about sending its image to me at . Thanks!
Thank you, minimomoser. BTW do we know each other? How about you Wyomingkid? I tell my grandkids about the Vogue all the time, and how cool it was to have a little movie theater right in the neighborhood.
I may have missed a previous explanation, and if so I am sorry for being repetitious. Mt. Healthy was originally named Mt. Pleasant. But cholera epidemics in 1832 and 1850 changed that. While as many as 1 in 8 people in Cincinnati were dying of the disease, very few were afflicted in Mt. Pleasant. At an elevation of over 800 feet and primarily rolling hills, there was little area for water to stand. That coupled with their own abundant well water supplies, proved to make Mt. Pleasant a very healthy place to live. Persons 80 years old were common. Soon, people just started referring to the town as Mt. Healthy, and after 1884 the town adopted the name for all matters.
Okay… First of all, the Vogue Theater was not next door to the Vogue Cafe. The Vogue Cafe was, and still is, on the SW corner of Vine and Mary Streets. The theater was north of there, about halfway to West Mills Avenue. In the photo above, the theater would have been to the extreme right of the photo, next to that gray apartment house. The cafe is at the extreme left, just off the photo. There were several buildings in between them. The building immediately next the the Theater was an old storefront in use only as storage for Barthel’s Hardware, which was across the street on the SE corner of Vine and Hillsdale.
As to the stage curtains; yes, they were still there in the 60s and I remember paying a quarter to get into the Saturday matinee. Correct, no balcony.
I am looking for an actual photo of the old theater. If anyone has one, how about sending its image to me at . Thanks!