AMC Hamilton 10

RMI,
Hopefully this will be the last DanBarry ‘treasure’ we get cluttering up the site. What is so nice about these megaplexes that you must submit them all? Corporate sprawl is ugly enough in real life, we don’t need it here. For a cinema to be a treasure, it should be architecturally or historically significant, or at least offer a unique ambiance or selection of films. If your only qualification is that it’s a place that shows movies, I’ll submit my living room, which is a lot nicer than these cruddy boxes some people cram the site with. It even serves beer.

This isn’t a site to chronicle the economic forces behind the movie theater industry, it’s a site specifically to commemorate classic movie theaters. Even aging these monsters 200 years wouldn’t make them worth anything. If in 40 years people form grassroots movements to protest the demolition of a 16 screen cinderblock and drywall box, I’ll admit I was wrong. No one will ever miss these things. Almost none of them look even like anything, which will make replacing one box with another very easy. The days of quality architecture are mostly over (but may return), and quality construction has been priced out of the reach of all but the best-funded projects for 20 years or more. These are essentially disposable buildings.

Seth just wanted to add the theatre I talked of in the above in the 70’s is when the balcony was then used as a twin the main floor was a single than but the stage was took out and the screen pushed up, so that a small 150 seat theatre would be placed behind the main floor ‘s screen. Anyways in 1999 when a house was torn down they built the four additional theatres to the right of the building. They at least feature stadium seating and digital sound. Anyway the small theatre was used even after the main floor was triplexed. When the new stadium theatres were added they closed the smaller theatre because the new theatre were built onto the original building and blocked the small theatre’s exit doors. The two building of theatres are connected by entryway between the two theatres. At any rate the owners have always place one sheet cases next to the entry of the theatre that movie was playing in. After the small theatre closed they installed a tacky fence like gate with a lock blocking the entrance hallway to small theatre. I went in the back a few times and looked in the theatre they use now for storage, removing several of the left side’s seats for space and placing the loose seats in front of the screen .I was amazed that the screen, speakers and projection everything was still intact and no signs of leaks on the ceiling. And yes after what almost 6 years the one sheet of “Ring Master” is still in its case and the sign over the door “I must admit is missing some letters” said “Ring Master”.

SO SETH MY POINT IS CINEMA THEATRE IS A 12PLEX BUT STILL IS AN OLD CLASSIC AND IF YOU ADD THE SMALL THEATRE IN THE BACK OF THE FLOOR THEATRES WHICH LOOKS IN GREAT SHAPE ( JUST NEEDS A EXIT) THIS CLASSIC IS 13 SCREENER.

In reading about John Eberson and his son, Drew (inserted below) there was mention of a former Hamilton OH theater called the Jewel which was Eberson’s earliest known conventional theater. And the Jewel is not listed on our cinema site for a theater in Hamilton OH.

“Eberson was born in Cernauti, Bukovina, a region of Romania. He attended high school in Dresden and studied at the University of Vienna in 1893. After escaping from prison (he was incarcerated after a disagreement with a superior officer in his military regiment) Eberson moved to the United States and settled in St. Louis, Missouri. His earliest atmospheric experiments are found in his stage design and painting work between 1901-03 for the Johnston Realty and Construction Company. Eberson’s earliest known conventional theater commission was for the Jewel in Hamilton, Ohio (1909). After moving to Chicago in 1910 he began to receive steady theater design work. While his early commissions could be characterized as traditional, by the mid-1910’s Eberson had clearly forged a new direction with the Austin Majestic (1916) and Dallas Majestic theaters (1917). His first truly Atmospheric Theater, the Houston Majestic, opened in 1923. The Atmospheric Theaters reflected Eberson’s European heritage. Italian influences,especially in statuary and interior motifs. In addition, were landscape and garden influences. Eberson’s theater interiors contained numerous fountains and grottoes.
[Adapted from an exhibition publication of the Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Art Gallery, Hunter College (1988)]

Known in its last months as the Cinema 10, this theater was closed by AMC on November 28, 2010: View link