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  • <p>Nice shot as General Cinema’s Hollywood Cinema on March 21, 1973</p>
  • <p>A rare interior shot of Varsity’s auditorium in 1983 by architecture photographer Russell B. Phillips.</p>
  • <p>Circa 1979 photo credit J.J. Sedelmaier.</p>
  • <p>Mid `50’s postcard courtesy of Scott Coleman.</p>
  • <p>Photo credit Bruce Sharp at Mekong.net</p>
  • <p>June 2003</p>
  • <p>Source: Motion Picture News, July 14, 1917</p>
  • <p>December 19, 1997</p>
  • <p>1986</p>
  • <p>April 15, 1983 Steven Spielberg’s first feature length feature made for TV and aired November 13, 1971. It was presented as part of the “ABC Movie Of The Week” series (1969-1975).</p>
  • <p>May 24th, 1991</p>
  • <p>The venue’s profile photo from its Facebook feed</p>
  • <p>The redundantly-named redundantly, Cinema 8 Cinema in Lansing Illinois' Lansing.</p>
  • <p>Source: BOXOFFICE, May 6, 1963</p>
  • <p>This is a shot from 2020 when the Fun reopened from COVID-19 and the theater was open… but at this matinee - just one customer. That’s the drive-in screen to the left for the evening D-I shows.</p>
  • <p>1927 photo courtesy of John Chuckman Collection.</p>
  • <p>Clear view of first balcony foyer. Beautiful space. Hard to imagine swinging a wrecking ball at that.</p>
  • <p>When new owners came in after four and a half years since the cinema’s closure, they found it virtually the same as it was March 16, 2020 when the theater closed with these films. Concessions were plentiful though out of date. So they decided to gut the theater for other purposes.</p>
  • <p>Here’s the New Amsterdam in an episode of “Cagney and Lacey”. This is back when it was a movie theater. The marquee states that “First Blood”, the first Rambo movie, is currently playing.</p>
  • <p>1982 photo courtesy of Steve Jay. Galewood Montclare Elmwood Park Facebook page.</p>
  • <p>You can see the little Cineplex Odeon logo off-center right near the bottom. From the architect’s website: https://smng-arch.com/project/burnham-park-plaza/.</p>
  • <p>December 21st, 1988 grand opening ad</p>
  • <p>1980 photo credit John P. Keating Jr.</p>
  • <p>Interior architectural sketch in 1928 of the Pickwick interior</p>
  • <p>1989 photo credit Dana Olsen.</p>
  • <p>Chicago Tribune photo of the Grand Opening of the Colony Theatre. August 26, 1926.</p>