Hoyne Theatre
2110 W. Roscoe Street,
Chicago,
IL
60618
2110 W. Roscoe Street,
Chicago,
IL
60618
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The Hoyne Theatre opened in 1911 on Roscoe Street at Hoyne Avenue, for Edward Rice, who also owned the nearby Seeley Theatre (later renamed Roscoe Theatre). It could seat 299. The Hoyne Theatre is listed in the Film Daily Year Books until 1929. By the 1940’s, a hardware store is listed at this address. The former theatre has since been demolished and a retail/residential building has been built on the site.
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The Hoyne theatre was also known as the Roscoe theatre and survivied into the 1950’s. I first dicovered it as a youngster in the mid 1950’s, but it was already closed by that time. Although I never saw the inside of the Hoyne/Roscoe theatre, I do remember its exterior was tiny. The ticket booth was located between the two sets of double doors constituted the entrance. While trying to located some pictures of other Chicago theatres via long distance, I talked to a woman who lived in what is now referred to as Roscoe village. She told me that the theatre hosted teen dances well into the 1960’s. There was a nice “soda shop” several doors from the theatre as well as an excellent German bakery.
In 1956 it was remodeled into quarters for the Shleswig-Holsteiner-Sangerbund club, one of chicago’s oldest german musical clubs.
It also originally had a capacity of 650
The first two comments actually refer to the Roscoe/Seeley theatre.
As does much of the description.
1923 Sanborn
1950 Sanborn