I started attending the Rodeo Theatre in Louisville in 1965. At that time it was a real ‘dive’. For extremely low admission (I remember it being a quarter, definitely it was less than a dollar), it offered a place for men (never saw a woman there) to sit, relax, smoke, drink (not concession drinks!), and, very often, sleep. Sometimes the snoring threatened to drown out the movie’s soundtrack. But I got to see lots of great stuff there, mostly from a few years previously, but occasionally something that had just finished its first run.
I last attended the theatre in January of 1967. Not sure how long it remained open after that.
As I recall, there was no ‘style’ to the place. The front was a plain, flat entrance on a downtown street. The auditorium itself was boxy and rectangular with no decoration I recall. The 400 seats claimed in your breakdown seems very high. I recall it being smaller than that.
I grew up in Jeffersonville, Indiana, and attended many movies at the Le Rose from 1959 to 1963. The last movie I saw there was IN SEARCH OF THE CASTAWAYS on May 30, 1963. I believe it closed shortly after that date.
It reopened as a live performance theatre called THE STEAMBOAT CABIN THEATER in 1972, closing in 1974.
I started attending the Rodeo Theatre in Louisville in 1965. At that time it was a real ‘dive’. For extremely low admission (I remember it being a quarter, definitely it was less than a dollar), it offered a place for men (never saw a woman there) to sit, relax, smoke, drink (not concession drinks!), and, very often, sleep. Sometimes the snoring threatened to drown out the movie’s soundtrack. But I got to see lots of great stuff there, mostly from a few years previously, but occasionally something that had just finished its first run.
I last attended the theatre in January of 1967. Not sure how long it remained open after that.
As I recall, there was no ‘style’ to the place. The front was a plain, flat entrance on a downtown street. The auditorium itself was boxy and rectangular with no decoration I recall. The 400 seats claimed in your breakdown seems very high. I recall it being smaller than that.
I grew up in Jeffersonville, Indiana, and attended many movies at the Le Rose from 1959 to 1963. The last movie I saw there was IN SEARCH OF THE CASTAWAYS on May 30, 1963. I believe it closed shortly after that date.
It reopened as a live performance theatre called THE STEAMBOAT CABIN THEATER in 1972, closing in 1974.