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  • <p>Photo of the Plaza Theater on the last night it was open as a movie Theater.</p>
  • <p>PHOTOS SHOWS 36 BUT THIS WAS DONE FOR THE FILMING OF THE 1984 BACHELOR PARTY, WITH TOM HAWKS, I WAS MANN THEATERS C.O.O. I WAS THERE AT OPENING</p>
  • <p>June 18, 1980 photo credit Richard A. Rygh, originally published in Capital Times. Courtesy Wisconsin Historical Society. “View down street towards a large crowd gathering in a line outside the Orpheum Theatre on State Street for a free 10AM Madison premiere of The Empire Strikes Back sponsored in part by WMAD-FM. A radio station van is on the left.”</p> <p>https://www.wisconsinhistory.org/Records/Image/IM109027</p>
  • <p>Source: Motion Picture Exhibitor, 1965</p>
  • <p>1940s photo via Randall Friedrich‎.</p>
  • <p>1970s photo credit Des Plaines History Center. Des Plaines Theatre left of center.</p>
  • <p>August 9, 2025 100ths Anniversary photo credit Roger Halvorsen.</p>
  • <p>Full size 1951 photo courtesy of the Hemmings Motor News Facebook page.</p>
  • <p>Plaza Cinemas. Corner of 31st Street and 1st Ave.<br>Circa 1987.</p>
  • <p>Redoing the marquee. The McHenry must have been called the Skyline DI at one time.</p>
  • <p>1949 photo courtesy of Henry F. Beck.</p>
  • <p>December 2008</p>
  • <p>November 1987 shot of the Six Forks, during its Cineplex Odeon days.</p>
  • <p>November 8, 1963</p>
  • <p>Interior of the large auditorium, circa 1990. Photo by photographer Josh Burdick, used with permission</p>
  • <p>Final night for the Premiere Cinema Temple 15 + IMAX in the Temple Mall on Christmas Day 2022.</p>
  • <p>This ad is for the movie Beverly Hills Cop II, which opened on May 20, 1987 at this theater when it was known as Loews Astor Plaza, according to The New York Times.</p>