Loop Theater
165 N. State Street,
Chicago,
IL
60601
165 N. State Street,
Chicago,
IL
60601
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Hachidan8, for reference all films shown at the Loop Theater 1964-1978 are listed on page 3, in a post from 2007. Same with most of the other downtown theatres.
Hachidan8….THE GODFATHER never played at the Loop Theatre. It played a few feet north at the Chicago Theatre. The Loop Theatre played all kinds of movies; from Russ Meyer to Walt Disney. From kung fu to blaxpoitation. From Hollywood movies to soft core porno movies. The Loop played anything. It was a unique theatre.
The movie “The Godfather” played here for over a year then the martial arts movies lived here for a awhile. I think that was in 74.
11 seconds of footage from 6/15/73-6/28/73.
https://www.pond5.com/stock-footage/item/219786010-chicago-1973street-view-chicago-theater-and-iconic-chicago-s?fbclid=IwAR3bZJNMx6QrLjJr_hlF1adckBq58qGDazZqW0MkM8BBa4fSFYIMOp__TAU
Paul Dimler photo.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/37640374@N04/6287620225?fbclid=IwAR1sjFPLlENa-LqXr23Rv48fIMKbwm708R5PE_u9HB_qV8va6RyPJSZCbYI
Photos of Loop, Chicago & Shangri-La Theatres in below link.
https://www.pappaspost.com/vintage-greek-independence-day-parade-photos-chicago/
Additional 9/16/77-10/06/77 Saul Smaizys photo.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/ceebop/24096682332/in/album-72157662523920010/
9/16/77-10/06/77 Saul Smaizys photo.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/ceebop/23836894229/in/album-72157662523920010/
3/14/75-4/17/75 Saul Smaizys photo via Flickr. Will enlarge in link.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/ceebop/24244411795/in/album-72157662523920010/
Saul Smaizys mid `70s pic via Flickr. Will enlarge in link.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/ceebop/23970600360/in/album-72157662523920010/
Flickr link with a 1964 postcard. (April `63 image) “Mondo Cane” at the Loop.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/hollywoodplace/20354207116/in/dateposted-public/
My mother took me to the Telenews prior to the Chicago or the Oriental when I was 5 years old. (They didn’t send me to kindergarten.) That’s where I saw my first teletype machine; and my first tv set (although there was nothing on at the time). That’s where I saw the Empire State Building crash; where I learned how to stand during the National Anthem; and where I got to see FDR declaring war. When I was at Northwestern, I went there (The Loop Theatre) and saw After Mein Kampf. It was a nudie documentary. And then in 1967, I took my new wife there to see the Graduate, with Dustin Hoffman. That theatre—inside a taxpayer—was one, classy place.
December 23rd, 1939 grand opening ad as Telenews and April 8th, 1950 ad as Loop can be found in the photo section.
May 1965 photo added.
History of the Telenews via WTTW.
http://chicagotonight.wttw.com/2016/03/02/ask-geoffrey-whats-history-telenews-theater-state-street#.VtffhZxQkHU.facebook
STRAIGHT TIME is on TCM tonight. 12:30 a.m. central time. 1:30 a.m. eastern time.
Photo added to Photos Section. Photo credit John P. Keating Jr. The final film to ever play the Loop Theater. “Straight Time” opened 03/17/78 and closed as did the theater on 04/02/78.
It was exactly sixty years ago this afternoon that Anton Schuessler, Jr., John Schuessler and Robert Peterson saw “The African Lion” at the LOOP Theatre.
I remember they brought the “Open Letter to Jane Anders” ad campaign back when the adult CINDERELLA appeared at the Loop during the summer of 1977. If I remember correctly, one of the “letters” was from a woman who was unhappy with her banker husband because he spent too much time wrapped up in work and would not take her to the Loop Theater to see CINDERELLA. Jane Anders' response: “Tell him to leave you a loan.”
Below link has photos from a 1940 dual premiere at the Chicago and State-Lake Theatres. One photo of the TeleNews, which I added to the Loop’s Photos Section. I added the link to the Chicago and State-Lake CT pages too. Copy & paste to view.
http://www.vintag.es/2015/01/old-photos-of-chicagos-first-hollywood.html
Here are a few paragraphs about the Telenews Theatre from the January 5, 1940, issue of The Film Daily:
The first Telenews Theatre opened in San Francisco on September 1, 1939, just in time to show newsreels of the invasion of Poland by Nazi Germany. The timing helped make the theater a tremendous success, and the company rapidly expanded to other cities. Not surprisingly newsreel theaters flourished during the war and early post-war years, but went into decline with the arrival of television, which could bring breaking news into people’s homes. Still, a handful of newsreel houses hung on into the 1960s, usually by pairing newsreels with feature-length documentaries.Charles F. Murphy, who had no formal training in architecture, founded the firm of Shaw, Naess & Murphy with architects Alfred P. Shaw and Sigurd Naess in 1937. Murphy had previously been personal secretary to architect Ernest Graham, of the firm of Graham, Anderson, Probst & White, successors to D. H. Burnham & Company. Shaw and Naess had also been with the firm, Shaw having been a junior partner since 1929.
The Loop is seen in this Vivian Maier film at 5:41, 6:20 & 7:27.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXASDjCwxsE&feature=youtu.be
I added a number of images to the Photos Section that were either previously in dead links or newly found via Facebook or other sources. I credited the sources whenever I could.
Vivian Meier’s shot of the theater can be found at http://www.vivianmaier.com/gallery/street-2/#slide-16
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Today, April 2, is the 35th Anniversary of the Loop Theatre putting on its last picture show.