Marquette Theatre
3157 W. 63rd Street,
Chicago,
IL
60632
3157 W. 63rd Street,
Chicago,
IL
60632
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The Marquette had a major fire during installation of the cinemascope screen. One of the installers using a torch set the screen on fire. It took out the front of the auditorium and is why in later years there were just flat plain walls on both sides of the screen. Once while re-lamping the dome I found evidence of the fire up in the attic. Louie the projectionist was a gem. He had a bad habit of missing cues so he would thread up on the picture. If he got the cue he cut off 8 seconds of the next reel. If he missed the cue he would switch with the projector coming up to speed.
Are you sure the CVS drug store that i know of is on the corner on 63rd and Pulaski kiddy corner to the giant indian the Marquette has a listed adress of 6305 South Kedzie the only drug stores around their is a Walgreens as i posted before I think it is what is now the payless shoe store . Can any one conferm this ?
Thank you for you time :)
A CVS drug store is currently being built on the site, which has been vacant for years.
I was just buy this theatre i think there is a payless shoe store in its place now, can any one confirm this. thank you for you time.
The pipe organ in this theater was removed and was constructed in 1939 in the Trinity Presbyterian Church in Tucson, Arizona, by David McDowell utilizing pipes from the Marquette Theater in Chicago! He later expanded the organ in 1961 when the current console was added.
I saw Saturday Night Fever here, while on a date. We also went out on the balcony to do some “partyin'”. Hey, it was the 70’s and I was a Catholic school girl. :–)
the marquette was an old favorite as a kid on the southwest side. the incredably small restrooms down a few steps in the middle of the main isle were interesting as well as peering into the remnants of the old band pit. my grandmother remembered seeing bob hope there as a young woman.also a quick ride down kedzie got you to the colony and then the brighton if you were up to the challenge of all three.
With all the Jerry Lewis pics I sat through, how’d I miss THAT double bill!
Its design was odd, in that you entered the auditorium from the left side rather than the rear … i.e., the screen was perpendicular to the main road rather than parallel.
Can’t place the nude scene movie but the Jerry Lewis film was probably one of two: Visit to a Small Planet (Paramount, 1960), or Way, Way Out (20th Century Fox, 1966).
I am trying to find out the name of a movie that was shown as part of a double feature with a new Jerry Lewis sci-fi comedy in the 60’s. This other movie was in black and white and a possible British production. I remember that the opening and closing shots were the same birds eye view of a possible brick prison building with a walled in courtyard; it may have been snowing.
I remember this show for one reason; it had a NUDE SCENE ,and it was paired with the lattest Jerry Lewis movie! I was in my early teens at the time and could not belive what I was seeing.
The star of the movie was forced to sit in a chair and watch as two women bared their breasts to him. What a double,double feature. This is one of many memories of the Marquette Theater I have and I would sure like to know the name of that movie.
In an unusual attempt at convenience, the entrance to the men’s room was located in the rear of the auditorium itself!
The Marquette was owned the same chain that owned the Hi-Way and the Colony theatres. On the north side of the city they owned the Sheridan, Patio, Vogue, North Center and possibly some others.