The white marquee was the marquee for the Cobb Theater in the 40s through at least the 60s. Then it became a number of things, the two I know of is a disco and the latest before it closed was a restaurant that served healthier choice foods. It must not have went over too big.
Just down the side walk a few stores is the newly renovated Strand Theater. You can see its marquee that at the time I took the picture “Smokey Joe’s Café” was playing. Smokey Joe’s Café is a high energy paced music show. I saw a version on HBO and it is good. And there has been other musical type of entertainment or musicals.
As far as I know the newly renovated movie house is lacking one thing so far: Movies. True, there are some movies scheduled but they are not new releases. They are classic movies – time proven movies that movie lovers are in general agreement that these movies were/are great, such as Citizen Cain and Casablanca.
It will be nice for the Strand to show such movies… but what about just plain everyday newly released movies. Those would be nice too.
The price for admission to any of the shows I considered at the Strand is expensive.
So, we still don’t have a theater on the Square that is a movie house that just shows movies. We have a movie house that show classic movies and musical performances and we have another theater, Theater In The Square
What used to be the Cobb Theater is now empty. The last time I looked, it still has its stage, a place for a big screen, and a sloping floor. What is wrong with having a movie theater on the square that features regular newly released movies?
Not that it should matter, but I understand that what used to be the Cobb Theater is now haunted (the person that told should know).
Maybe if they get renovated they should specialize in horror flicks.
6 comments:
Wasn't the Cobb Theater a furniture store at one time?
Mel,
I forgotten completely about it being a furniture company. I vaguely remember it being one.
Wonder how those big theatres that have 12 - 16 shows running at the same time can do it. The two little old local theatres around here are run on weekends and intermittently. And we do not support them, too many other things to do on Friday evenings.
Si,
Living in the electronic age of DVD it is hard to go to a theater. It is easier and cheaper to rent a movie. The deciding point with us is: Will there be breath taking scenes or action that will look better on a huge screen?
I probably wouldn't have remembered it was a furniture store either, if I hadn't gone in while it was. That was the only time I ever went in that building. The floor was still at a slant, and that was where they had put the furniture.
Mel,
I remember looking into the window seeing the furniture but didn't go in. I have been in just about every store on the North Park Square, and when it was Cobb Theater, probably as a teenager, averaged more than twice a month.
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