Globe Theatre

kencmcintyre on November 30, 2008 at 1:41 pm

Here is part of an article in the Daily Illinoisan dated 2/15/60:

Globe Theater Leased

A venture in the movie business has apparently paid off for the City of Christopher and the Christopher Area Betterment Assn. The City Council and the association bought the Globe Theater for $6,000 last year, equipped it with CABA money and donated labor, and has now leased it to Clyde Patton of Centralia. The lease calls for payment of $100 a month to the city, which holds the deed.

The theater building on East Market St., has had its ups and downs since it was constructed about 1916. Dwight Bacon, Christopher insurance agent, and former teamster, recalls working on the building when it was put up by Robert Cluster. Cluster later sold it to Reed, Yemm and Hayes, who operated a chain of theaters, including one at Du Quoin. Robert Cluster owned theaters in Benton and Salem, and his son Stewart now owns the Palace theater in Johnston City and the Marion Drive-in.

Bacon recalled the theater was closed once or twice, and purchased by the Fox-Midwest chain chain about 20 years ago. Patton was Christopher manager for the Fox-Midwest chain from 1953 to 1955 and is now manager of the chain’s Illinois Theater in Centralia. He will return to Christopher to open the Globe in early March.

Bruce C. on June 1, 2011 at 4:04 pm

The Globe Theatre is on E. Market Street. To the left (west) of the theatre is Dimaggios Pizza which is at 108 E. Market St. and to the right (east) is the First Christian Church Fellowship Hall.