Comments from kencmcintyre

Listed at 2651 N. Clark in the 1953 yellow pages. Phone number was DIvrsy 8-5567.

Pulaski was Crawford, I think. It does say “Race Theater building”. I guess the Irving was in the Race Theater building, which is kind of odd.

Here is part of a Tribune article dated 2/10/25;

Bert Schreiber, Chicago real estate operator and more lately identified with the Florida realty boom, yesterday sold the Calo theater property, at the northwest corner of Clark and Baimoral, 185x125, to Otto C. Kraemer, for an indicated $350,000.

Here is an October 1944 story about the sale of the theater:
http://tinyurl.com/6rqp9a

Looks like Racine, BW. I will check.

John Derek was an actor in the early fifties. He co-starred with Humphrey Bogart in “Knock on Any Door”, which was 1954, I think.

The McVickers Theater can be seen in the background of this 1950 photo from Life Magazine:
http://tinyurl.com/6f75v7

Here is part of an LA Times article dated 8/28/43:

Man Confesses Taking $1306 in Fake Robbery

Asst. District Atty. Melvin Gibbs today announced Norris W. Ott, manager of a Fresno theater, has confessed to stealing $1306 in theater funds Monday morning and then striking himself on the head with a length of pipe to simulate a robbery.

Approximately $600 of the money has been recovered by Gerald Hardy, owner of the theater, from hiding places where it had been secreted by Ott.

Ott told Gibbs and Hardy he stole the money to replace $500 which he had taken from theater receipts to replace another $500, which Ott said he lost in a bookie establishment.

When he struck himself with the pipe, Ott inflicted a brain concussion which necessitated him remaining in a hospital for two days.

Here is another 1951 photo from Life:
http://tinyurl.com/5t85ow

Here is a 1945 photo from Life Magazine:
http://tinyurl.com/5vb2e8

Listed as the Rena in the 1953 Chicago yellow pages.

OK, thanks. It looks like South Park, but I guess that was an abbreviation. No longer listed in the 1960 directory.