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Posted From: 66.2.148.26
| | Posted on Monday, April 17, 2006 - 12:45 pm: |    |
The Strand Theatre, 4730 Grand River and 14th St.
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Hornwrecker
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Posted From: 63.41.40.102
| | Posted on Tuesday, April 25, 2006 - 11:03 pm: | |
Keeping this thread alive with a Sanborn map of the Riviera Theater, Grand River near Joy, more about it on page one of this thread.
This thread either needs a new page, or be moved to the Detroit Memories section. |
Saruthma
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Posted From: 68.60.160.65
| | Posted on Tuesday, April 25, 2006 - 11:19 pm: | |
I've searched this thread inside and out and haven't found information related to a building on the NE corner of Mack and Beniteau. When I've driven by it, it looks like it may have been an old theatre. The facade looks similar to the Hippodrome in Terre Haute, IN. Was this building ever a theater? |
Hornwrecker
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Posted From: 63.41.40.102
| | Posted on Tuesday, April 25, 2006 - 11:42 pm: | |
I found a Del Theatre at 8935 Mack, and a Pasadena at 9232 Mack. So, I'm guessing the first one is closer to St Jean, and the address was on the north side.
That's a start for your research. |
Mikem
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Posted From: 68.43.15.105
| | Posted on Wednesday, April 26, 2006 - 10:43 am: | |
It was the Harmony Theater until about WWII, then was renamed the Admiral. |
Livernoisyard
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Posted From: 69.242.223.42
| | Posted on Wednesday, April 26, 2006 - 11:17 pm: | |
Is there any dope on the Rio theater on the corner of Central and Vernor (formerly Ferndale)? I could only find two items on the net. |
Hornwrecker
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Posted From: 63.41.40.117
| | Posted on Wednesday, April 26, 2006 - 11:23 pm: | |
In case anyone wants to search Mack for old theatres, there were a lot of them.
| Admiral (w Harmony) | 1941 | 1975 | 11205 | Mack | | Colony | 1928 | 1945 | 16535 | Mack | | Del | 1916 | 1963 | 8935 | Mack | | Harmony (-Admiral) | 1921 | 1941 | 11205 | Mack | | Ideal (-President w Montclair) | 1928 | 1939 | 10739 | Mack | | Mack Uptown | 1935 | 1950 | 14407 | Mack | | Maxine | 1914 | 1952 | 7641 | Mack | | Montclair (-Ideal) | 1914 | 1928 | 10739 | Mack | | Orpheum | 1911 | 1915 | 8945 | Mack | | Pasadena | 1930 | 1950 | 9232 | Mack | | President (w Ideal) | 1939 | 1948 | 10739 | Mack | | Rivoli (8225 Mack) | 1923 | 1928 | 8225 | Mack | | Uptown | 1926 | 1963 | 14407 | Mack | | Woods 1 & 2 | 1969 | 1981 | 19269 | Mack | | Woods 6 | 1981 | 1998 | 19269 | Mack |
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Pffft
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Posted From: 75.10.18.33
| | Posted on Wednesday, April 26, 2006 - 11:39 pm: | |
Anybody ...
Can y'all help me with the name of a movie theater on W. Warren, between Wyoming and Livernois? |
Mikem
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Posted From: 68.43.15.105
| | Posted on Thursday, April 27, 2006 - 12:06 am: | |
West End? |
Hornwrecker
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Posted From: 63.41.40.117
| | Posted on Thursday, April 27, 2006 - 12:09 am: | |
Maybe the West End, 6864 W Warren, 1930-50.
The Granada,1927-70, 5549 W Warren, was on the other side of Livernois, from the not to scale map I'm looking at.
Farther East was the Beechwood, 5010 W Warren, 1915-45, which was one the old "Negro" theatres.
Has anyone put together a list of the "race only" theatres?
Rio Theatre, 1935-60, 7714 W. Vernor, part of the Cohen circuit.
(Message edited by Hornwrecker on April 26, 2006) |
Livedog2
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Posted From: 24.223.133.177
| | Posted on Thursday, April 27, 2006 - 12:32 am: | |
Does anyone have any information on the Conant Show located on Conant St. in Hamtramck? The best information I can give you is that the show was located on the Westside of Conant between Carpenter and Caniff Sts.
I'm specifically looking for the address and maps of the structure and surrounding structures. The address might have been 12027 Conant St., Hamtramck but their is confusion about a Detroit versus a Hamtramck address/location. But, I'll take any other information about it, too.
We as kids called it the Conant Show but I think the official name of it was the Conant Theatre. I can find scant information about it on the internet.
Livedog2 |
Pffft
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Posted From: 75.10.18.33
| | Posted on Thursday, April 27, 2006 - 12:32 am: | |
Hmmm...The theater in question would have still been in use in 1953 ... |
56packman
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Posted From: 24.208.234.52
| | Posted on Thursday, April 27, 2006 - 12:34 am: | |
pffft-see my post (above) from 3-16-06, re: the theatre on W.Warren It was the west end. |
Mikem
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Posted From: 68.43.15.105
| | Posted on Thursday, April 27, 2006 - 12:35 am: | |
Back when TSM was allowed to participate, he posted scans of several pages of a Detroit newspaper from ~1929. A few pages had movie theater listings, and around the same time, there was a discussion about the lack of theaters in Detroit today. I took the listings and made a map of the theaters, but I can't remember if I ever posted it....probably not, because my mapping software produces only .bmp images, and in the conversion to fit this forum, a lot of detail is lost:
Detroit Theaters, circa 1929.
At this scale some of the theater names drop out for clarity. On Michigan avenue, between the Chopin and the Ritz, is the Imperial. Between the Ritz and the Eagle is the Senate, and across Michigan from the Eagle is the Piccadilly. Next to the Crystal is the Ludlow.
On W Grand Boulevard, north of the Strand was the LaSalle Gardens, and between it and the Grand Riviera was the Linwood. On Grand River, in the bottom right corner was the Amo, and up near the top right corner are the Norwood and the Regent, both on Woodward near the Boulevard. |
Livedog2
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Posted From: 24.223.133.177
| | Posted on Thursday, April 27, 2006 - 12:45 am: | |
Mikem, you said, "Back when TSM was allowed to participate,..." Who was TSM and why is he not allowed to participate anymore? This sounds like some history I missed and am keen to know about.
Livedog2 |
Mikem
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Posted From: 68.43.15.105
| | Posted on Thursday, April 27, 2006 - 12:58 am: | |
I have no idea who he was or why he was shown the door. He used to start a lot of threads similar to the "Word Association" thread in the Non-Detroit Issues, but I never paid much attention to them and I doubt that's the reason.
Some east side detail:
Sorry the names are at crazy angles. There was the Martha Washington on Connant near Caniff. What a funny name for a theater...was Martha a big movie fan? If you can't read it, the other two in Hamtramck were the Poland and the White Star. On Harper, between the Frontenac and the Arthur was the Harper, and between the Del-The on Mack and the Fairmont on E Warren, was the Rivoli on Cadillac at E Forest. |
56packman
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Posted From: 24.208.234.52
| | Posted on Thursday, April 27, 2006 - 1:00 am: | |
Livedog2--the Conant theatre was located at 12027 Conant (a Detroit address), as you stated. it had 927 seats, and operated from 1929-1954. That is all that is indicated in Andrew Craig Morrison's "Opera house, nickel show and palace", so far the best book on Detroit movie houses. Not perfect, but very good. other Hamtramck theatres are:
FARNUM, 9048 Jos. Campau (1918-1967)
MARTHA WASHINGTON, 10315-10331 Jos. Campau (1924-1968), renamed the Campau, (1970-?)
NORTHWAY, 10004 Jos. Campau (1923)
PASTIME, 8615 Jos. Campau, 400 seats, (1912-1937)
POLAND,2026 Caniff (1921)
renamed CANIFF (1922-1927)
" " EAGLE (1928-1929)
POLAND, 9643 Jos. Campau (1917)
renamed FREE POLAND (1918-1921)
" " POLAND (1921-1925)
" " CAMPAU (1926-1939)
WARSAW, 3200 Caniff (1918)
WHITE STAR, 9229 Jos. Campau (1915-1936)
renamed STAR (1937-1949)
360 seats.
that's all for tonight, folks |
Pffft
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Posted From: 75.10.18.33
| | Posted on Thursday, April 27, 2006 - 1:08 am: | |
Oops, thanks 56...so you did answer me. Were you familiar with the neighborhood much in the '50s, around there? And I presume a 3-10 Barton is an organ? |
Mikem
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Posted From: 68.43.15.105
| | Posted on Thursday, April 27, 2006 - 1:15 am: | |
Oops, I have the Martha Washington at 10315 Connant when it was really at 10315 Jos Campau. |
56packman
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Posted From: 24.208.234.52
| | Posted on Thursday, April 27, 2006 - 8:24 am: | |
pffft-No I wasn't around then, (I was born in 1959). I saw the West end about 13 years ago, on a trip to Warwick Clutch. The west end had a 3-10 Barton, It's one of the few Detroit TO's I don't know the disposition of. But I know who to ask. |
Pffft
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Posted From: 70.237.11.59
| | Posted on Thursday, April 27, 2006 - 9:54 am: | |
That's cool..I'm more interested in the demographics of that neighborhood at the time ... |
Psip
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| | Posted on Friday, March 23, 2007 - 1:54 pm: | |
The Garrick Theater where Harry Houdini made his last performance.
From the Detroit Opera House site:
Historically Michigan Opera Theatre's home is Detroit's fifth opera house. Previous venues intended for staging opera in Detroit included a "Detroit Opera House" from 1869-1963 at Kennedy Square, "Whitney Grand Opera House" (renamed Garrick Theater) located on Griswold and Michigan avenues, and the "New Detroit Opera House" from 1886-1928 located at Randolph and Monroe streets.
http://www.motopera.org/doh/history.html
From the DHS exhibition on Movie Houses
In the year 1887 Mr. C.J. Whitney built the "Whitney Grand Opera House, and Block, on Griswold street, between Michigan Ave, and State st. This Block was eight stories high, and was then the first and only sky-scraper in Michigan. Realizing that the poorer classes needed good clean entertainments, at reasonable rates, the prices were fixed at ten cents in the top Gallery, twenty cents in the Balcony, and thirty and fifty cents on the ground floor. This proved to be what the working classes wanted, for the 1,650 seats are generally filled at the six matinee’s a week, and the House is packed every evening in the week. Good farce-comedy, and melo-drama is given by inexpensive companies.
http://www.detroithistorical.org/exhibits/index.asp?MID=1&EID=186&ID=206
LOC |
Stinger4me
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| | Posted on Wednesday, August 29, 2007 - 11:31 am: | |
Livedog2;
Some information about the CONANT Theatre, it was on the west side of Conant. It was south of Carpenter and north of Commor. There were streets which made a "T" into Conant from the east but did not cross Conant. The streets closest to the show were BRISTOW and CAELY. I am not sure where the borderline of Hamtramck and Detroit was. Moran was the street west of Conant and my old street guide indicates it is in Hamtramck. There was a confectionary near the show on the same side of Conant. The show was open in the 50's but I cannot tell you what year they closed. At one point they gave dishes away one night of the week. I recall seeing the movie, "Donovan's Brain" there. I hope this helps with your questions. |
Hammergal
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| | Posted on Monday, November 12, 2007 - 12:13 pm: | |
Here is a theater ad from the Gazette Van Detroit from 1922. It is in dutch but you can still read the participants in the stamp program. Also a theater ad from a Belgian Ladies booklet from 1937 about a group of theaters.Does anyone have anything about this theater manager.
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Eriedearie
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| | Posted on Tuesday, November 13, 2007 - 12:42 pm: | |
I've been skimming through this thread and went back to the beginning and read that if anyone had any memories of a Detroit theater to share them. So here goes:
My Aunt, who had recently moved to Detroit from a small town in Virginia, got a job as the ticket seller at The Van Dyke Theater in the early 50's. One night when she was working a handsome fellow wearing a police officer's uniform bought a ticket from her and asked what time she got off work. She told him and he asked if she had a way home. She said that her uncle was coming by to pick her up. He said why don't you call him and tell him you have a way home. I'll watch the movie and hang around a bit and then drive you home. She was leary since he was a stranger but she thought well, he is a policeman.
So he drove her home - and that's when she found out he was not a police officer after all - but a security guard! Her mistake! But anyway, they dated and ended up getting married. Aunt Liz and Uncle Frank. She's still living, but sadly the best Uncle a little girl could ever have asked for passed away in 1979. And it all started at the Van Dyke Theater.
I don't know who it was that posted a picture of the building, but I thank you for that. I'm doing a history of our family and that will be a great addition to the mention of my aunt and uncle. |
Bill_rush
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| | Posted on Thursday, January 03, 2008 - 10:11 pm: | |
My Dad worked at the Globe what was the address? |
Mikem
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| | Posted on Saturday, January 05, 2008 - 5:41 pm: | |
3520 Grand River |
Rhymeswithrawk
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| | Posted on Thursday, February 07, 2008 - 4:11 am: | |
Per Packman's request:
An old postcard of the Grand Riviera from my collection:
http://s215.photobucket.com/al bums/cc280/buildingsofdetroit/ Postcards/?action=view¤t =riviera.jpg |
