I was just going through, after 4 decades, a pile of papers. I just came upon a new clipping, attached to the large opening day newspaper clipping. It was an opening day thing. It said that my father A.D. Douglas was one of the two partners in the venture. I do not know when he sold it.
A.D Douglas was my father. My mothers uncle was the head of the Associated Theater group out of Cleveland. My Mother was Cleo Kalafat.
I wondered for a long time if the place was still around, but I could not remember the name.
Too bad about this one. I would have liked to see it when I visit Cleveland. I think this was built by my Great Uncle John Kalafat and his Associated Theaters. I know his sister, my grandmother lived across the street in the brick house that is still there.
I have a ½ dozen El Ray Monthly schedules the last one for August 1946. The Analy was at the site of the current Safeway parking lot on the north-west end of main street about 300 feet back from the corner. I spent a lot of time in the Analy as a kid in the middle-late 1960’s.
Two door down from my parents place lived the Gambogi’s, I grew up with their sons. Across the street from them lived Norma Gambogi. She was a Tocchini. She always had her hair in a white beehive with fancy black rimmed glasses and drove a red Cadillac convertible.
I used to listen to her and my late mother talk about the movie house business. My mothers Uncle, who she worked for in the 1930’s, was president of Associated Theaters of Cleveland, Ohio.
It killed me when the Analy was sold. It was a great old movie house. In Santa Rosa in the old railroad square area is another Tocchini move house with the name Tocchihi still on it. It is now a night club of some sort.
I was just going through, after 4 decades, a pile of papers. I just came upon a new clipping, attached to the large opening day newspaper clipping. It was an opening day thing. It said that my father A.D. Douglas was one of the two partners in the venture. I do not know when he sold it.
A.D Douglas was my father. My mothers uncle was the head of the Associated Theater group out of Cleveland. My Mother was Cleo Kalafat.
I wondered for a long time if the place was still around, but I could not remember the name.
James Douglas
Does anyone have a set of photos of the interior of this theater? I can find nothing on the internet.
Thanks, James
Too bad about this one. I would have liked to see it when I visit Cleveland. I think this was built by my Great Uncle John Kalafat and his Associated Theaters. I know his sister, my grandmother lived across the street in the brick house that is still there.
James in San Francisco.
I have a ½ dozen El Ray Monthly schedules the last one for August 1946. The Analy was at the site of the current Safeway parking lot on the north-west end of main street about 300 feet back from the corner. I spent a lot of time in the Analy as a kid in the middle-late 1960’s.
Two door down from my parents place lived the Gambogi’s, I grew up with their sons. Across the street from them lived Norma Gambogi. She was a Tocchini. She always had her hair in a white beehive with fancy black rimmed glasses and drove a red Cadillac convertible.
I used to listen to her and my late mother talk about the movie house business. My mothers Uncle, who she worked for in the 1930’s, was president of Associated Theaters of Cleveland, Ohio.
It killed me when the Analy was sold. It was a great old movie house. In Santa Rosa in the old railroad square area is another Tocchini move house with the name Tocchihi still on it. It is now a night club of some sort.