March 2, 2011

Lakeside Theater, 1936

The Lakeside opened in 1915 for the Ascher Brothers circuit and two years later was taken over by the Lubliner & Trinz circuit. It could seat well over a thousand people.




From the IDOT collection.

Source: Illinois Department of Transportation Chicago Traffic photographs
Collection: IDOT Chicago Traffic Photographs (University of Illinois at Chicago)
Repository: Special Collections and University Archives, University of Illinois at Chicago Library

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

notice the double deck bus

adgorn said...

You can buy a poster for the movie that was playing on ebay now:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=130493842856

Joanne said...

Pricey little thing, isn't it? Here's the live link:

Movie Poster

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