I have reached out to the Delta Gateway Museum in Blytheville to get an exact address for the Princess Theatre. My message to the Blytheville Recreation Center has not netted anything yet.
A.G. Shibley was a wholesale grocer at one time in Blytheville, with a house brand of flour.
Below is a vintage matchbook on eBay.
There are other references as well as obituaries within Google.
When I have time I will try and track down some store addresses.
But a street view search starting on Ash Street and roaming around did not have any buildings match up.
This Richmond County Historical Society publication has a completely different history and timeline.
Halfway down in the link.
Also I added an early `60s photo that has both Friendly Theatre and Strand on the building.
“On July 5, 1934, Joe Caudell announced plans for a new theatre to be located in the then Bob’s Cleaners building on Washington Square. The building was next to the Rockingham-Post Dispatch building, later Hough Hardware, now Kitchin, Neal, Webb, Webb and Futrell law offices.
The new theatre was to be air-conditioned. The only other air-conditioned building in downtown Rockingham at the time was the Richmond Theatre. Opened in August 1934, the new theatre was named Little Joe’s Theatre on the Square.
On Aug. 24, 1939, that theatre was sold to H. B. Meiselman and renamed the Strand Theatre. He later donated the building to the City of Rockingham which is now the Richmond Community Theatre operated by a volunteer board of directors which produces plays and other events in the building."
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Originally had a 400 car capacity with a 40'x 55' screen, at its then projected opening, as of May 10, 1949, per page 6 of the below 2009 Hardin County Historical pdf link.
It was managed by Robert Enoch who also managed the other theatres in town for Elizabethtown Amusement Company since 1945, and for the next 36 years.
(I added a CT page for the Ritz/former Masonic Theatre today.)
Other than the projection booth, there are only like 2 interior photos of stairwells in the gallery. None of the auditorium.
Which is something even a former usher complained about in past comments a few years back.
I have reached out to the Delta Gateway Museum in Blytheville to get an exact address for the Princess Theatre.
My message to the Blytheville Recreation Center has not netted anything yet.
Added the matchbook images for reference, for when the link goes dead.
A.G. Shibley was a wholesale grocer at one time in Blytheville, with a house brand of flour. Below is a vintage matchbook on eBay. There are other references as well as obituaries within Google. When I have time I will try and track down some store addresses. But a street view search starting on Ash Street and roaming around did not have any buildings match up.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/233738418835
AKA Pine Tree Drive-In Theatre. Circa 1984 photos in below Itasca County Historical Society Facebook link. Scroll right.
https://www.facebook.com/ItascaHistorical/photos/pcb.10158281802422980/10158281785362980/
This Richmond County Historical Society publication has a completely different history and timeline. Halfway down in the link. Also I added an early `60s photo that has both Friendly Theatre and Strand on the building.
“On July 5, 1934, Joe Caudell announced plans for a new theatre to be located in the then Bob’s Cleaners building on Washington Square. The building was next to the Rockingham-Post Dispatch building, later Hough Hardware, now Kitchin, Neal, Webb, Webb and Futrell law offices.
The new theatre was to be air-conditioned. The only other air-conditioned building in downtown Rockingham at the time was the Richmond Theatre. Opened in August 1934, the new theatre was named Little Joe’s Theatre on the Square.
On Aug. 24, 1939, that theatre was sold to H. B. Meiselman and renamed the Strand Theatre. He later donated the building to the City of Rockingham which is now the Richmond Community Theatre operated by a volunteer board of directors which produces plays and other events in the building."
http://rchs-nc.net/2014/08/08/the-big-screen-in-rockingham/?fbclid=IwAR07vRNfrmXGA0l6Tje9cKeR5gBzvPAoqvyHAUDXoQj5g4L-cLkm__TsXc4
From the Fine Arts Building Facebook page.
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https://www.facebook.com/chicagofineartsbuilding/photos/a.108102601704549/119859900528819/
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1Hw98R-bpY7j1lL5bmWQ9m1JDy6pdjrytm782xRoZ3cY/viewform?edit_requested=true&fbclid=IwAR3RE3lRX4g4WYS61-fdS-UHHJWUVtz7C5kiSKfyS8f-zwBWEZCmYoprbMY
Great Schiller/Garrick Theatre Visualization Vimeo link below.
https://vimeo.com/658973818?fbclid=IwAR2dp1s3jG574Bd9YNnWz6J-Y0DvtY3w6UEuvek0Ac8RfVKLjSBYqne4AAw
News piece with the “End Credits” photo by Shawn Triplett.
https://www.erienewsnow.com/story/45462629/end-credits-mayfield-ky-man-takes-poignant-photo-of-tornado-damage-sets-up-gofundme-to-buy-toys-for-affected-children?fbclid=IwAR3OaC2rQaSWXKb2HCerK_WepuYB6JpJZ4oNKyE96OnM_V9Z5gnJCBOSLIA
Possibly originally built as Joplin Theatre, but the timeline does not fit the print ads from Masonic to Ritz. It became Houchens Market in 1951.
Opened September 1950, closed in 2002.
Facebook page for Ford Theatre. They list their address as 432 Washington.
https://www.facebook.com/AftonsFordTheatre/
Originally had a 400 car capacity with a 40'x 55' screen, at its then projected opening, as of May 10, 1949, per page 6 of the below 2009 Hardin County Historical pdf link. It was managed by Robert Enoch who also managed the other theatres in town for Elizabethtown Amusement Company since 1945, and for the next 36 years.
(I added a CT page for the Ritz/former Masonic Theatre today.)
http://www.hardinkyhistoricalsociety.org/uplimg/Spring%202009.pdf
1946 photo:
https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc1552510/m1/1/?q=will%20rogers%20theatre&fbclid=IwAR1iN0W6IDOA9IrjqKkqZcn2WqWco5fftrE8XNlbUwqnU3bf0W3RhF_D7pg
May 31, 1939 Photo:
https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc1552686/m1/1/?q=will%20rogers%20theatre&fbclid=IwAR2KJ8k5uvKAC-DIZa4VR1aS_HmOmlpWSzvI7Y0ZqMyGXp1FX7_0-bhCqzo
Address is 546 Main Street, not 841. 1951 photo added credit Randi Lee, whose family built the Gooding Theatre.
Credit line: John Margolies Roadside America photograph archive (1972-2008), Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.
1956 enlargeable image on Flickr.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/stockholmtransportmuseum_commons/8261596972/in/photostream
Other than the projection booth, there are only like 2 interior photos of stairwells in the gallery. None of the auditorium. Which is something even a former usher complained about in past comments a few years back.
1954 marquee shot during S. Ziegfeld Ct street naming.
https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/video/ziegfeld-ct-street-sign-installed-by-ziegfeld-theater-in-news-footage/471741596?adppopup=true&fbclid=IwAR34iuKj-cUcxKTojBwI9BU6K75hHiVNL0vqx7E4NvR38QgfZKUuQlIRfCc
Video of the Follies marquee lit at night in 1966.
https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/video/lighted-signs-advertise-a-burlesque-theater-in-chicago-news-footage/1270653476?adppopup=true&fbclid=IwAR1TSKMCmHufUCaTK-gafSLGsiAjkIM-UQpRly09Qoxgvh0pXITwJfIZM-0
Update: 1950 photo credit Cleveland News Photographer. Colorized by unknown.
Here is the above mentioned “Tough As Nails”-“Mic Drop” episode.
https://www.cbs.com/shows/tough-as-nails/video/IXZVmVesaf_TGnESGTkZIhs4HMBcfx6Y/tough-as-nails-mic-drop/
May 2017 Chicago Tribune article with about the 90th anniversary images.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/movies/la-et-mn-chinese-theatre-20170518-htmlstory.html
Howard Hughes’s “Hell’s Angels” opens at Grauman’s Chinese Theatre with 200 searchlights (May 24, 1930). Description credit David Cutter.
As Clune’s Broadway Theatre.
March 1942 John Vachon photo with a street banner for the Marlow Theatre. Click on “View full size” for greater detail.
https://www.shorpy.com/node/26395