The ways theater owners promoted their programs and venues to audiences
On February 11, 1950, Hollywood’s showtimes were listed at the very bottom of the newspaper, under the Opheum Oriental, Paramount, Music Box, Playhouse, Liberty, and Newsreel.
Salem’s community loved theater, Southgate Cinema-World, officially closed down September of 1999 by Regal, after being in operation from J
The Old Trail Drive-In commonly offered two different showings per night. They had two family nights a week, Tuesday and Wednesday, and advertised the different types of accommodations for families, like a bottle warming service, and showing cartoons for children.
For my blog post, I chose an advertisement article about the Savoy theater in Medford that the Medford Mail Tribune published on October 3, 1908. The Savoy was the second moving picture theater built right after the Bijou. It is an interesting article because it was two days after its first opening on October 1 of 1908.
When the Dreamland Theater was first created, like many other theaters at the time, it had to be promoted in the newspaper to attract patrons from all over the town of Albany, Oregon. To gain traction the Dreamland Theater would often gain promotional advertisements in the newspapers telling patrons the price of admission, shows being played, acts offered if any. The promotions would complete this information with the showtimes of the films and the days on which the films would be changed.
The Strand Theater in Portland Oregon was a project owned and operated by S. Morton Cohn, as owner, manager, and director of the theater of both the theater and the Strand Theater company. The theater was a well-to-do, but fairly cheap theater that opened in 1916, it showed various photo villas and Vaudeville era pictures during its operating years.hIn this promotion, we see the Strand promoting 4 of its newest shows as well as grandly making it known that their price for all fims was 10 cents, an affordable price for most families in that time.
The Crescent theater, which operated in Roseburg, Oregon from 1908-1910, was a short-lived theater in Oregon history, although it maintained a high status for their “high class motion pictures”. Since the theater was only around for a short while, information is sparse, however there are bits and pieces of info that I gathered throughout my research that certainly formed an image of what the theater going environment was like at the Crescent.