Odeon Hanley

popcorn_pete on July 23, 2023 at 6:23 am

Chicago’s in the former auditorium closed for the pandemic in 2020 and never reopened. You tube link featuring the abandoned building at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZ3QUXxka1g. More on the flats scheme here: https://www.stokesentinel.co.uk/news/stoke-on-trent-news/apartment-block-plans-would-see-6451652. The Boston bar in the foyer, formerly Revolution, is also boarded up as are many properties in the town!!!

David Rayner on March 1, 2016 at 12:49 am

In March, 1954, the Odeon was chosen to present the North Midlands Premiere of the first film in CinemaScope, THE ROBE. Equipment costing thousands of pounds was installed there for the presentation of CinemaScope films complete with a wide screen with moveable masking and four-track magnetic stereophonic sound. As the Odeon didn’t close for this installation, it must have been done at night over several nights and in the mornings and a three weeks long engagement of the film began on Monday, March 8th, 1954. The next landmark in the history of the Odeon occurred some five years later when it closed for two weeks for the installation of an even bigger wide screen and equipment for the showing of 70mm Todd-AO films. The opening presentation of the newly installed system being SOUTH PACIFIC, which opened on Monday, July 13th, 1959, and ran for an incredible seventeen weeks. However, the Odeon’s biggest hit was THE SOUND OF MUSIC, which opened in 70mm on Boxing Day, 1965 and ran for an even more incredible 46 weeks!

Ian on December 11, 2013 at 12:02 pm

A photo of the shuttered Odeon from 1989:–

ODEON HANLEY