Lawn Theatre

we moved from the douglas park neighborhood to an apartment in the 3200 block on west 63rd street in the summer of 1944——my dad was in the navy—-i started school at eberhart in the fall of that ——eberhart was at 65th and homan—-about two blocks away from the lawn———as i recall the lawn was a mom and pop operation at that time—-the owner,his wife,son,and daughter sold tickets—-ran a small refreshment stand——acted as ushers ect———admission for the kids was 12 cents——12 cents unbelievable——pop corn——5 cents a box———-10 cents a bag——-most candy bars a nickle——-we usually went to the on sat afternoons——-when many other kids went from eberhart——-the older kids went on friday nites——-with the adults—-saw a movie usuallly a western——-a serial——which you couldn’t hardly wait to get back the following week to see——-a cartoon—-all the cowboy hero’s——-gene aurtry——roy rogers——-hopalong——with their side kicks——my memories of that time are so clear——happy times——even tho my dad was in the south pacific at the time——thank god he came home safely——he would take me sometimes on friday nites——eveen tho i wasn’t one of the big kids

The church in fact did close,eather side of 63rd street have ben developed the land whare the Lawn was is now owned by the Chicago Police Department it is a parking lot for the 8th dist. Chicago Lawn
station and facing across the street is the new H.Q for the 8th dist. i rember this theatre it (at the time of demolition)was to be a Chicago Fire Station i rember this buld as being a white buld also if i remmber it was in disuse and repare when it was torn down and it was being used a some kind of a church.