Here is a shot of the Hippodrome which I previously thought was on the Olympia site. Looking towards the end of the street, it appears to be a shot facing east, not west, making the map above accurate and placing the Hippodrome on the north side of Flagler.
Not at all, Harvey. I also share your fascination with the porn era and am quite concern at the white washing of history we are seeing today. The classy Roadshow Sheridan down the street was the South Florida premier house for “Deep Throat” and Leroy Griffith kept many a theatre open well past their due date.
I agree the future is dim for this location and the neighborhood has greatly changed as well, but it was once a luxury reserved seat house. The posts above, including mine, refer only to its deteriorated subrun, rock and porn years.
I didn’t take it personally but I have read a lot of more posts from people bemoaning the lost era of BACK TO THE FUTURE than the palaces of the thirties. After all, how many 75 year olds are online?
Each generation waxes melancholy about their own increasingly fuzzy youth.
Louis, I don’t have an ad to share but I do know that the original PLANET OF THE APES opened at the Carib exclusively then went wide to include the MIAMI, MIRACLE, 163rd St, PALM SPRINGS and SUNRISE CINEMA.
BENEATH THE PLANET OF THE APES opened at the Paramount and ESCAPE at the Florida. CONQUEST did not play downtown, a fact not quite as tragic as the fact that I know this information from files I started as a kid.
“It wouldn’t be a stretch to assume that many of the regular posters on ‘Cinema Treasures’ comprise a crotchety, curmudgeonly, really bad-tempered assortment of 75 year old men who bemoan ‘progress’ and bewail ‘the good old days’.”
As a regular poster, and reader, I find that this statement badly misrepresents this site. As a matter of fact, I can think of only one poster who can be described that way and he has yet to comment on this page.
Scmadrian, although it is an interesting challenge, you seem to have missed the thousands of posts on CT from younger people also decrying the loss of their suburban multiplex treasure.
This site stopped being about 75 year olds once any theatre could be included. You will find that among the most popular pages are those dedicated to the 1969 Ziegfeld and the 1963 Cinerama Dome & Arclight.
Many if us still still plop our dollars down for good experiences at those remaining modern day palaces but we have our own memories or long to have seen a movie at the Roxy.
In an environment where fuel costs make remote living more expensive and inefficient every day, clustering around cities makes perfect sense.
The British Film Minister, an inexplicably pompous twit from a northern industrial town that had not had cinema in ten years, once told us that people did not go to movies anymore because they disliked the smell of popcorn.
Thanks, Louis. I am still adding items that may help unravel more questions with sharp eyes like yours.
The Capitol:
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Another link to the “Kilimanjaro” shot.
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“The Sound of Music” played for over a year at the Colony. Here is the 1965 Florida State Theatres Christmas ad.
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Another link to Second Avenue and the Rosetta:
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Here is a shot of the Hippodrome which I previously thought was on the Olympia site. Looking towards the end of the street, it appears to be a shot facing east, not west, making the map above accurate and placing the Hippodrome on the north side of Flagler.
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Another link to the photo above:
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Florida State Theatres christmas ad in 1966. “Hawaii” is at the Sheridan:
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New link to the photo above:
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Here is another link to that marquee photo. Notice the apostrophe version of “LOEW’S”.
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North Side Twin newspaper ads:
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The Mayfair circa 1933. “Miami’s most unique theatre”
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Not at all, Harvey. I also share your fascination with the porn era and am quite concern at the white washing of history we are seeing today. The classy Roadshow Sheridan down the street was the South Florida premier house for “Deep Throat” and Leroy Griffith kept many a theatre open well past their due date.
If the magic works, this should link to the opening day program.
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I agree the future is dim for this location and the neighborhood has greatly changed as well, but it was once a luxury reserved seat house. The posts above, including mine, refer only to its deteriorated subrun, rock and porn years.
Easycinema was the most profoundly stupid cinema concept I have ever seen in the last fifty years.
Bad theatre, crap seating, no popcorn, no service. Cheap prices for new movies.
Easycinema operated at a loss for a whole year!
No one showed up.
Fucking Idiots!!!!
So did anyone show up?
I think the posts above greatly underestimate the value of this early Miami Beach Cinerama Roadshow house.
This is the future of ‘Cinemas Treasures", Schmadrian. Not just internet tombstones as you see it…
http://cinematreasures.org/newns/18906_0_1_0_C/
CONQUEST was summer of 1972. I think RETURN was just on TV.
There were double feature pairings of the first two over the years and GO APE weekends, mostly at the drive-ins .
I didn’t take it personally but I have read a lot of more posts from people bemoaning the lost era of BACK TO THE FUTURE than the palaces of the thirties. After all, how many 75 year olds are online?
Each generation waxes melancholy about their own increasingly fuzzy youth.
Louis, I don’t have an ad to share but I do know that the original PLANET OF THE APES opened at the Carib exclusively then went wide to include the MIAMI, MIRACLE, 163rd St, PALM SPRINGS and SUNRISE CINEMA.
BENEATH THE PLANET OF THE APES opened at the Paramount and ESCAPE at the Florida. CONQUEST did not play downtown, a fact not quite as tragic as the fact that I know this information from files I started as a kid.
“It wouldn’t be a stretch to assume that many of the regular posters on ‘Cinema Treasures’ comprise a crotchety, curmudgeonly, really bad-tempered assortment of 75 year old men who bemoan ‘progress’ and bewail ‘the good old days’.”
As a regular poster, and reader, I find that this statement badly misrepresents this site. As a matter of fact, I can think of only one poster who can be described that way and he has yet to comment on this page.
Scmadrian, although it is an interesting challenge, you seem to have missed the thousands of posts on CT from younger people also decrying the loss of their suburban multiplex treasure.
This site stopped being about 75 year olds once any theatre could be included. You will find that among the most popular pages are those dedicated to the 1969 Ziegfeld and the 1963 Cinerama Dome & Arclight.
Many if us still still plop our dollars down for good experiences at those remaining modern day palaces but we have our own memories or long to have seen a movie at the Roxy.
In an environment where fuel costs make remote living more expensive and inefficient every day, clustering around cities makes perfect sense.
The British Film Minister, an inexplicably pompous twit from a northern industrial town that had not had cinema in ten years, once told us that people did not go to movies anymore because they disliked the smell of popcorn.