Greetings. It is both wistful and inspiring that so many of you have fond recollections of the Detroit UA Theater. I often wondered why the theater was shut down during the summers back in the 1930s and 40s. Other Kinsky theaters or United Detroit Theaters were “comfortably cool inside.” Why not the UA? Also, with so many recollections about films shown at the UA during it’s roadshow decades, let’s not forget the first run showing of The Guns of Navarone (not a hard ticket) and the downtown presentation (after its premiere at the Mercury Theater on Schafer and W. McNichols) of The Longest Day.
Greetings. It is both wistful and inspiring that so many of you have fond recollections of the Detroit UA Theater. I often wondered why the theater was shut down during the summers back in the 1930s and 40s. Other Kinsky theaters or United Detroit Theaters were “comfortably cool inside.” Why not the UA? Also, with so many recollections about films shown at the UA during it’s roadshow decades, let’s not forget the first run showing of The Guns of Navarone (not a hard ticket) and the downtown presentation (after its premiere at the Mercury Theater on Schafer and W. McNichols) of The Longest Day.