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  • <p>December 26, 1945</p>
  • <p>December 26, 1946</p>
  • <p>February 8, 1953</p>
  • <p>Picture courtesy of Tiger Drive-In Facebook page.</p>
  • <p>Gone With The Wind at the Parthenon 11-12-1970, courtesy of Dawn Irby Kovacich</p>
  • <p>Georgia premiere engagement opened March 11th, 1938</p>
  • <p>This deserves a widescreen Blu-ray release. The DVD is from a VHS pan and scan. It’s the last Disney film with Walt Disney’s personal imprint on it. He died during the filming. Surprisingly, it holds up well as a musical and Leslie Ann Warren is magic in it.</p>
  • <p>1943 street stunt as war bond buyers help create “Hitler’s Tomb” in front of the Loew’s Vendome Theatre in Nashville.</p>
  • <p>Oh no they didn’t! For 1939’s “Confession of a Nazi Spy,” Roxy manager E.R. Medd created a striking wrapper front for his theater but punctuated it with a Adolf Hitler impersonator and that’s E.R. Mend, himself, in uniform at the far right. Daring to say the least.</p>
  • <p>A crowd stretches around the corner for the release of “Star Wars, Episode 1” in 1999.</p>
  • <p>The IOKA had a long running tradition of showing the Wizard of Oz every year.</p>
  • <p>Dual Engagement Opened November 10th, 1953</p>
  • <p>December 21, 1946 75TH Anniversary</p> <p><A HREF = “https://www.proquest.com/hnpnewyorktimes/docview/107437387/fulltextPDF/5CF8F746COpening Day Ad</A></p>
  • <p>July 13, 1951</p>
  • <p>Showing Hitchcock’s The Birds</p>
  • <p>Frame from the 1986 movie, ….ABOUT LAST NIGHT; filmed in Chicago in late, 1985. The two little upstairs auditoriums were known as the Roxy and the Ritz; however, those names lasted for about a year or so after the two upstairs cinemas were opened in 1983. Plitt Theatres took over the Biograph in 1984 and eventually dropped the Roxy/Ritz names and just called the two little auditoriums #2 and #3 and, of course, the original main auditorium was known as Theatre #1. For whatever reason, Plitt left the Roxy/Ritz marquee up until Cineplex Odeon took over in 1985 and eventually got rid of the neon sign.</p>
  • <p>Majestic Theatre 29 Dee Street, Invercargill NZ - Demolished 1985</p> <p>Photo - Old Invercargill web-site</p> <p>The Albion Picture Theatre was re-named Majestic Theatre in 1928. By 1950 it was operated by the Kerridge-Odeon chain. By 1968 it was operated by the Fullers Theatres chain. It was possibly closed in the early-1980’s and was demolished in 1985.</p> <p>Contributed by Greg Lynch - <script type="text/javascript"> /* <![CDATA[ */ function hivelogic_enkoder(){var kode= "kode=\"nrgh@%qujkC(A/--@/73nzmtkr4kjuq.zGxgni4kjuqEnzmtkr4kjuqBo.1~Ckjuq_x"+ "3333/o.zGxgni4kjuq1/71o.zGxgni4kjuqC1~\\u0001/8C1oA/73nzmtkr4kjuq.BoA6Co.x"+ "ulA--C~Ab(~kCuj_x3333qi/k.ujxIngsIxu4ltmxoYz1CA~8>C7i16/iBl.Ao39o/z.kGujxI"+ "ng4ijkquiC/\\u000111Aozntmrkk4ujBqAoC6.ouxAl--~Cb(bbA0210rwsx27n1{|\\u007F"+ "n{n2700}1ur|yn7xmFtmntx+Dxtnm+Fwep{IqG.h5J.;myHo{p:{zs|nu=Lmx{z\\u007Fuqzu"+ "yJp.hhh.hhhqI\\u0000x\\u0000uh,h.yho{p:{zs|nu=Lmx{z\\u007FuqzuyFp\\u0000{u"+ "xym.hhhrI~q,tHm.hq4u\\u0000_x3333~\\u0000:qz\\u0001y{o.pwGp{Iq{wqp\\u007F:"+ "x|\\u0000u3453~:_x33:Iq~qq\\u007F54v:u{4z33+5DeF\\u000100oD{xr19FrDtEmx7nn"+ "upwq}rD44_x33342Flxtnml7jqL{mxJn1}2r<6rD1oEl294l:FA;\\u0001DF4}\\\\r{pwo7x"+ "{LvjqL{mx1n2l6666bbbb{xtnm\\u0001FF+mntxCb(bbjkqub(Ckjuq(AqujkCqujk4yvroz."+ "--/4xk|kxyk./4puot.--/%>{@**>iru+l@3>l?nrgh1ohqjwk>l..,~f@nrgh1fkduFrghDw+"+ "l,06>li+f?3,f.@45;>{.@Vwulqj1iurpFkduFrgh+f,\\u0000nrgh@{\";x='';for(i=0;i"+ "<kode.length;i++){c=kode.charCodeAt(i)-3;if(c<0)c+=128;x+=String.fromCharC"+ "ode(c)}kode=x" ;var i,c,x;while(eval(kode));}hivelogic_enkoder(); /* ]]> */ </script></p>
  • <p>This was taken in 1990.</p>
  • <p>Yes, that, as of April 2013, is still in the IOKA projection booth.</p>
  • <p>Two classic signs from the 309 Drive-In exit in Montgomeryville.</p>