I’m not really sure why whoever posted this said it closed in the 50’s. It was closed around 1984. A local preacher started a campaign to have it shut down for showing r rated movies. If I remember correctly he squawked so much and him and his congregation harassed patrons to the point where sales declined so much that the owner was eventually forced to shut down from lack of business. They even did a story about the whole thing on entertainment tonight and were interviewing kids at the local school.
it closed in either ‘86 or '87 because one of the last movies i remember seeing on the marquee was wildcats with goldie hawn.
i was a sophomore in high school in eldorado then and i remember hearing a rumor that part of what lead to the closure was that they were having a lot of trouble with devil worshipers harassing patrons.
good memories from this theater.i remember seeing firefox with clint eastwood,the canonball run,and ghostbusters (which i’m going to see again this weekend in paducah,ky during the one week only limited 30th anniversary rerelease.i also saw e.t.there.i took my first date there,(don’t remember what we saw) the last two movies i saw there were batman and lethal weapon 2 in 1989.about a year later the illinois centre place 8 theater opened.that was during the stadium theater boom.i don’t think t and c lasted much longer after that.i moved away that same year. haven’t been to marion in a while.i was wondering if the theater is still standing.i know it broke my heart everytime i went back and saw it boarded up.
I’m not really sure why whoever posted this said it closed in the 50’s. It was closed around 1984. A local preacher started a campaign to have it shut down for showing r rated movies. If I remember correctly he squawked so much and him and his congregation harassed patrons to the point where sales declined so much that the owner was eventually forced to shut down from lack of business. They even did a story about the whole thing on entertainment tonight and were interviewing kids at the local school.
it closed in either ‘86 or '87 because one of the last movies i remember seeing on the marquee was wildcats with goldie hawn. i was a sophomore in high school in eldorado then and i remember hearing a rumor that part of what lead to the closure was that they were having a lot of trouble with devil worshipers harassing patrons.
good memories from this theater.i remember seeing firefox with clint eastwood,the canonball run,and ghostbusters (which i’m going to see again this weekend in paducah,ky during the one week only limited 30th anniversary rerelease.i also saw e.t.there.i took my first date there,(don’t remember what we saw) the last two movies i saw there were batman and lethal weapon 2 in 1989.about a year later the illinois centre place 8 theater opened.that was during the stadium theater boom.i don’t think t and c lasted much longer after that.i moved away that same year. haven’t been to marion in a while.i was wondering if the theater is still standing.i know it broke my heart everytime i went back and saw it boarded up.
it closed in the early 2000s and it had 2 screens.