The Jefferson Theater was destroyed in a fire on 12/4/50, according to a story in the Jefferson City Post-Tribune at that time. Status should be closed/demolished.
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (UPI) — The second major fire here this week destroyed the Surf Theater Thursday and routed 12 persons from apartments on upper floors. The movie house is about a mile and a half from the Surfside Hotel.
I tried a search under Adolphus instead of hippodrome and found the proofs. I think the vantage point would be from the Follies, which may have either still been in existence or alternatively was recently demolished. I’ve seen Follies photos from the LAPL as late as 1973.
The expanded view of the photo at the top of the page shows the adjoining businesses. Prohibition would have still be in effect in 1928, so I’m not sure what kind of brew the business on the left was selling. http://jpg2.lapl.org/theater2/00015345.jpg
Huelen means “damned” in the local Mapuche language, so technically this would be the Damned Theater or Theater of the Damned. Some sources refer to the theater in the past tense, but I couldn’t confirm if it was open or closed.
I did try to match up the current driveway cutouts with the old photos. I posted this photo back in January 2007, but that was before the construction started. http://tinyurl.com/yxverb
Compare with this LAPL photo. The white building on the far north side of the street abutted the corner of 3rd and Main, I believe, which would put the theater cutout about where you see it in the contemporary photo. http://jpg2.lapl.org/pics09/00014006.jpg
This is a bit of supposition, but if you look at the gate by the box office, you see the lighter covered floor. That corresponds with where the tile was, so that may have been the floor covering by the box office and going into the theater. I posted this photo from the LA Times blog last April. http://tinyurl.com/6aplyy
They already tore up all that decorative tile we saw in January. I was hoping they would uncover some more of that, but the area in front of the theater has been obliterated.
If you see the smaller of the two buildings on the right, that’s about where the wall was. There was also an exposed concrete floor at that spot, but because it was ten feet below street level I wasn’t sure that was part of the new construction.
Construction has resumed on the 4th and Main project. They have now torn up the area where the theater was. I checked out the excavation, lots of bricks and shards in the debris but no theater footprint or anything else of interest. A retaining wall is now visible below ground on Los Angeles Street, but the theater didn’t extend that far. That wall could have been from one of any number of buildings over the years.
There is a photo here:
http://snipurl.com/4i3es
The Jefferson Theater was destroyed in a fire on 12/4/50, according to a story in the Jefferson City Post-Tribune at that time. Status should be closed/demolished.
From the Hartford Cuurant, 11/22/63:
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (UPI) — The second major fire here this week destroyed the Surf Theater Thursday and routed 12 persons from apartments on upper floors. The movie house is about a mile and a half from the Surfside Hotel.
Here is a January 1935 article about a fire at the Ritz:
http://tinyurl.com/5lqcxl
Thanks. I wasn’t sure if these were the same.
Here is the account of the fire from the Deseret News on 5/19/43:
http://tinyurl.com/6d8pna
According to the Hartford Courant, the theater was sold for $36,000 on July 15, 1963, and was then closed.
This article from the Contra Costa Times discusses an Art Deco expert who advised on the restoration of the Art:
http://tinyurl.com/5v2fam
Here is the 1925 listing:
http://tinyurl.com/5e2qoe
Here is the listing in 1925:
http://tinyurl.com/5e2qoe
This 1925 LA city directory shows a Gay Theater at 224 N. Main:
http://tinyurl.com/5e2qoe
Here is the theater’s website:
www.cinemaxx.com.br
Here is a recent ad from a local paper:
http://tinyurl.com/5tfucq
I tried a search under Adolphus instead of hippodrome and found the proofs. I think the vantage point would be from the Follies, which may have either still been in existence or alternatively was recently demolished. I’ve seen Follies photos from the LAPL as late as 1973.
The expanded view of the photo at the top of the page shows the adjoining businesses. Prohibition would have still be in effect in 1928, so I’m not sure what kind of brew the business on the left was selling.
http://jpg2.lapl.org/theater2/00015345.jpg
Here are a couple of proofs from 1974. You can see the gym taking over the entire second floor:
http://jpg2.lapl.org/theater2/00015199.jpg
Here is a July 2007 press release from Cinemark:
http://tinyurl.com/5sbrew
Here is a July 2004 article, predating the aforementiond post-Katrina closure:
http://tinyurl.com/6jzuzq
This October 2007 article notes that Tunisia had a hundred movie theaters a decade ago but is now down to 17:
http://tinyurl.com/5djchj
Huelen means “damned” in the local Mapuche language, so technically this would be the Damned Theater or Theater of the Damned. Some sources refer to the theater in the past tense, but I couldn’t confirm if it was open or closed.
There is a photo of the theater on this page:
http://tinyurl.com/5nrval
They do match up pretty closely.
I did try to match up the current driveway cutouts with the old photos. I posted this photo back in January 2007, but that was before the construction started.
http://tinyurl.com/yxverb
Compare with this LAPL photo. The white building on the far north side of the street abutted the corner of 3rd and Main, I believe, which would put the theater cutout about where you see it in the contemporary photo.
http://jpg2.lapl.org/pics09/00014006.jpg
This is a bit of supposition, but if you look at the gate by the box office, you see the lighter covered floor. That corresponds with where the tile was, so that may have been the floor covering by the box office and going into the theater. I posted this photo from the LA Times blog last April.
http://tinyurl.com/6aplyy
They already tore up all that decorative tile we saw in January. I was hoping they would uncover some more of that, but the area in front of the theater has been obliterated.
If you see the smaller of the two buildings on the right, that’s about where the wall was. There was also an exposed concrete floor at that spot, but because it was ten feet below street level I wasn’t sure that was part of the new construction.
Construction has resumed on the 4th and Main project. They have now torn up the area where the theater was. I checked out the excavation, lots of bricks and shards in the debris but no theater footprint or anything else of interest. A retaining wall is now visible below ground on Los Angeles Street, but the theater didn’t extend that far. That wall could have been from one of any number of buildings over the years.