This is from the same paper in November 1946, so it looks like North State Street is correct.
Santa Claus will also visit the business area this season and a special committee has been named to work out the details. The committee is composed of Charles Daniels, Laverne Nelson and Ed Porter. A community Christmas tree will be sponsored this year and arrangements will be made to place the tree on the vacant lots north of the Orpheum Theater on North State street.
This is an excerpt from a February 2006 story on the Stadium Theater in the Alton Telegraph:
S.E. Pirtle operated the popular Stadium in its early days, when every town had a theater, and Jerseyville had three. The movie entrepreneur also ran the Orpheum Theater on North State Street, now the Jerseyville Banking Center lot. The Jersey Theatre was on South State Street.
This was in the Port Arthur News in September 1944. Perhaps the remodeling mentioned above followed this blaze, although the theater is called the Lindale and not Linda.
LINDALE, Tex., Sept. 19 (UP)â€"Three Lindale buildings were in ashes today after a fire which threatened the entire town was brought under control late Monday night by equipment from the Tyler fire department. Damage was estimated at $31,000. No one was injured.
The blaze started in the projection booth of the Lindale theater, spread to two nearby buildings, and threatened a drug store and the post office before being brought under control. Estimated losses were the Lindale theater, $16,000; Martin Bowers' furniture store, $10,000; and Lee Hicks' cafe and grocery, $5000.
The Chinese restaurant next to theater has closed, along with a couple more stores on the second floor. The tbeater was empty at four in the afternoon today.
Here is a December 1975 article from the Charleston Daily Mail:
Keep X-rated movies downtown, the West Side doesn’t want them, say a businessman and clergyman who reacted with disdain to a proposal that the Custer Theater show skin flicks on a temporary basis. “We need a porno house over here like we need a hole in the head,” said Jack Freeland. president of the West Side Businessmen’s Assn., reacting to published reports that the management of the burned-out Lyric Theater is contemplating a move to the old Custer Theater at 305 Washington St. W.
The association includes about 100 businessmen, and Freeland said, “I think I can speak for all of them when I say that we are going to discourage this proposal in every way we can.” Protests notwithstanding, Mrs. Lydia Bowring said she and her husband plan to crank up projectors and begin showing X-rated films Wednesday afternoon. “I’ve got a right to make a living,” she said. “Look, our patrons are working class people and your higher-up types too. And by the time we open up. the church service will be over.”
Mrs. Bowring said no lurid signs will be displayed on the West Side cinema, which she and her husband have purchased. “We tried to show Walt Disney movies there for $1 a person and no one came,” she said. No one, she said, will be forced to enter the theater. The Rev. John Parks, pastor of Bream Memorial Presbyterian Church, envisions X-rated movies as an affront to his parishioners. A sporting goods shop and an alley separate Parks' church, at 317 Washington St. W.. from the theater, he said.
Freeland said he had received about 10 calls this morning from protesting residents, while Parks had had about three, he said. “I guess we have a feeling about the West Side as a special community.” Parks said. “There is a lot of concern about this.” As to X-rated movies. Parks said he is very wary of denying freedom to film-makers. “Don’t misunderstand. I’m not all for them. Some of these films are socially redeeming while others border on pornography,” Parks said. Parks said. “I’m very disappointed. This theater is so close to the church.”
Attempts to contact the theater management were unsuccessful. Freeland could not say what form the businessmen’s association protest will take.
Here is an article from the Chicago Daily Herald in February 1982:
Turned down by county and state courts, a Hanover Township drive-in theater is looking to the U.S. Supreme Court for permission to continue showing X-rated movies. L. Robert Artoe, attorney for the Starview Drive-In Theater, is vowing to appeal an Illinois Supreme Court decision that let stand a Cook County ordinance restricting X-rated drive-ins. The county’s “shield law” provides for a $2,500 fine each time a theater shows an X-rated movie that can be seen from private homes. Artoe said his appeal is “already at the printer’s” and will be filed within two months.
Although Artoe said there is a “very good chance” the high court will take the case, Cook County Assistant State’s Attorney Nancy Donnellan said she “doubts very seriously” the case will be accepted. Artoe said he expects the Supreme Court to decide by June 1 whether to hear the case.
The Starview Drive-In challenged the county’s “shield law” -which requires X-rated drive-ins to shield the screen from view â€" shortly after it was adopted four years ago. A Cook County Circuit Court Judge found the law constitutional, and the state appellate court partially agreed, saying the county cannot require the theater to block the view from public roads, only private property. The state supreme court this month refused to hear an appeal of the case, in effect letting the appellate ruling stand.
The $2,500 fine already has been applied against the Starview once, and Circuit Court Judge James Murray is scheduled to hear the theater’s appeal of the fine on March 19. Artoe said the owners of the theater, on Lake Street west of Route 59, have spent about $20,000 to plant 3,000 trees and install “extensive” lighting to block the screen. But he said the efforts were not in response to the county law but an attempt to prevent viewing of the movies by anyone who hasn’t paid the $5 admission.
Donnellan agreed that the screen can’t be seen from neighboring homes in the summer, but she said it can be now, and the state’s attorney’s office plans to pursue the fines. The theater opened for the season last weekend.
This is from the same paper in November 1946, so it looks like North State Street is correct.
Santa Claus will also visit the business area this season and a special committee has been named to work out the details. The committee is composed of Charles Daniels, Laverne Nelson and Ed Porter. A community Christmas tree will be sponsored this year and arrangements will be made to place the tree on the vacant lots north of the Orpheum Theater on North State street.
This is an excerpt from a February 2006 story on the Stadium Theater in the Alton Telegraph:
S.E. Pirtle operated the popular Stadium in its early days, when every town had a theater, and Jerseyville had three. The movie entrepreneur also ran the Orpheum Theater on North State Street, now the Jerseyville Banking Center lot. The Jersey Theatre was on South State Street.
Here is the 2002 photo that was posted on 3/6/05:
http://tinyurl.com/q4bgsq
This was in the Port Arthur News in September 1944. Perhaps the remodeling mentioned above followed this blaze, although the theater is called the Lindale and not Linda.
LINDALE, Tex., Sept. 19 (UP)â€"Three Lindale buildings were in ashes today after a fire which threatened the entire town was brought under control late Monday night by equipment from the Tyler fire department. Damage was estimated at $31,000. No one was injured.
The blaze started in the projection booth of the Lindale theater, spread to two nearby buildings, and threatened a drug store and the post office before being brought under control. Estimated losses were the Lindale theater, $16,000; Martin Bowers' furniture store, $10,000; and Lee Hicks' cafe and grocery, $5000.
On the Beulah theater page.
You were asking about the Beulah once being known as the Roxy. I think the Roxy is one of the ND theaters listed in the ad.
Here is an August 1950 ad from the Bismarck Tribune:
http://tinyurl.com/kllgan
Here is the June 22 photo:
http://tinyurl.com/l84nup
The Grand was owned and operated by Lee Norton in the 1950s. He also owned the Sullivan Drive-In on Route 32 at that time.
Here are some September 2009 photos:
http://tinyurl.com/mxd25d
http://tinyurl.com/n7dcfh
Here are some September 2009 photos:
http://tinyurl.com/md82xa
http://tinyurl.com/mvc7ye
Here are some photos taken today:
http://tinyurl.com/ngjasn
http://tinyurl.com/lents4
http://tinyurl.com/lu6h85
Theater is still closed. There is butcher paper on the windows.
The Chinese restaurant next to theater has closed, along with a couple more stores on the second floor. The tbeater was empty at four in the afternoon today.
Here is an October 1931 ad from the Madison Capital Times:
http://tinyurl.com/qm82ys
The Appleton was remodeled in 1961. Here are some items from the 1/17/61 edition of the Appleton Post-Crescent:
http://tinyurl.com/pz8c2m
http://tinyurl.com/rbnjof
Here is an interior photo circa 1929 from the Irvin Glazer theater collection:
http://tinyurl.com/o2s7l5
Here is a circa 1960s photo from the Irvin Glazer collection:
http://tinyurl.com/pkq5hq
Here is an exterior photo from the PAB site mentioned above:
http://tinyurl.com/qcns7n
This theater is already listed:
/theaters/4117/
Here is a December 1975 article from the Charleston Daily Mail:
Keep X-rated movies downtown, the West Side doesn’t want them, say a businessman and clergyman who reacted with disdain to a proposal that the Custer Theater show skin flicks on a temporary basis. “We need a porno house over here like we need a hole in the head,” said Jack Freeland. president of the West Side Businessmen’s Assn., reacting to published reports that the management of the burned-out Lyric Theater is contemplating a move to the old Custer Theater at 305 Washington St. W.
The association includes about 100 businessmen, and Freeland said, “I think I can speak for all of them when I say that we are going to discourage this proposal in every way we can.” Protests notwithstanding, Mrs. Lydia Bowring said she and her husband plan to crank up projectors and begin showing X-rated films Wednesday afternoon. “I’ve got a right to make a living,” she said. “Look, our patrons are working class people and your higher-up types too. And by the time we open up. the church service will be over.”
Mrs. Bowring said no lurid signs will be displayed on the West Side cinema, which she and her husband have purchased. “We tried to show Walt Disney movies there for $1 a person and no one came,” she said. No one, she said, will be forced to enter the theater. The Rev. John Parks, pastor of Bream Memorial Presbyterian Church, envisions X-rated movies as an affront to his parishioners. A sporting goods shop and an alley separate Parks' church, at 317 Washington St. W.. from the theater, he said.
Freeland said he had received about 10 calls this morning from protesting residents, while Parks had had about three, he said. “I guess we have a feeling about the West Side as a special community.” Parks said. “There is a lot of concern about this.” As to X-rated movies. Parks said he is very wary of denying freedom to film-makers. “Don’t misunderstand. I’m not all for them. Some of these films are socially redeeming while others border on pornography,” Parks said. Parks said. “I’m very disappointed. This theater is so close to the church.”
Attempts to contact the theater management were unsuccessful. Freeland could not say what form the businessmen’s association protest will take.
I stopped going to the promenade after the Midnight Special book store closed and was turned into a Banana Republic.
Here are some 1984 photos:
http://tinyurl.com/oy6r3q
http://tinyurl.com/qvqhns
Here is the Star Noodle marquee in 1983:
http://tinyurl.com/rypsoe
Here is an article from the Chicago Daily Herald in February 1982:
Turned down by county and state courts, a Hanover Township drive-in theater is looking to the U.S. Supreme Court for permission to continue showing X-rated movies. L. Robert Artoe, attorney for the Starview Drive-In Theater, is vowing to appeal an Illinois Supreme Court decision that let stand a Cook County ordinance restricting X-rated drive-ins. The county’s “shield law” provides for a $2,500 fine each time a theater shows an X-rated movie that can be seen from private homes. Artoe said his appeal is “already at the printer’s” and will be filed within two months.
Although Artoe said there is a “very good chance” the high court will take the case, Cook County Assistant State’s Attorney Nancy Donnellan said she “doubts very seriously” the case will be accepted. Artoe said he expects the Supreme Court to decide by June 1 whether to hear the case.
The Starview Drive-In challenged the county’s “shield law” -which requires X-rated drive-ins to shield the screen from view â€" shortly after it was adopted four years ago. A Cook County Circuit Court Judge found the law constitutional, and the state appellate court partially agreed, saying the county cannot require the theater to block the view from public roads, only private property. The state supreme court this month refused to hear an appeal of the case, in effect letting the appellate ruling stand.
The $2,500 fine already has been applied against the Starview once, and Circuit Court Judge James Murray is scheduled to hear the theater’s appeal of the fine on March 19. Artoe said the owners of the theater, on Lake Street west of Route 59, have spent about $20,000 to plant 3,000 trees and install “extensive” lighting to block the screen. But he said the efforts were not in response to the county law but an attempt to prevent viewing of the movies by anyone who hasn’t paid the $5 admission.
Donnellan agreed that the screen can’t be seen from neighboring homes in the summer, but she said it can be now, and the state’s attorney’s office plans to pursue the fines. The theater opened for the season last weekend.