Tina5
1 post
Jan 25, 2009
5:13 PM
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I recall that in the 70's there was a movie theater on Far Hills Avenue in Oakwood. Can anyone verify that and tell me the name of the Theater?
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corvettes6
23 posts
Jan 27, 2009
1:34 PM
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I think this theatre was older then the 60,s. My sister and I saw Lucille Ball and Desi Arnez In The Long Long Trailer there in 1954. Still laughing at the movie. It might have been known then as the Oakwood Theatre.
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etbetb
7 posts
Jan 30, 2009
9:11 PM
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Are we not talking about the Far Hills Theatre at Wonderly and Far Hills Ave? The Oakwood-Dayton Transit Co trolley bus used to loop near the theatre (also known as Dell Park loop), prior to 1950. After that, the line was extended down Far Hills Ave after the road was widened from two to four lanes roughly where Dorothy Lane Market currently is today.
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F16 1UB
3 posts
Feb 05, 2009
7:58 PM
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Went there to see Billy Jack. I believe it played for 1 year solid.
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Matt C T
7 posts
Dec 24, 2009
9:48 PM
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One of my high school friends work at this theatre as an usher/ticket taker, etc. when I was in high school around 1982 or so. He'd sneak a few friends in and up a side strairway and we'd go through the projection room to a one row balcony that extended out from the projection room along the back wall of the threater. I don't know how he did it, but my friend claimed he loved watching movies such as Tron 20 plus times and was always the guy who could recite movie lines word for word....lol
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Bill76
1 post
Dec 25, 2009
8:19 PM
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I remember the theater. They used to give away free tickets in the summertime, and as a kid we got to see quite a few movies this way.
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Greysin1
7 posts
Jan 08, 2010
9:08 PM
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@ Bill76 - My father used to get those free tickets @ Dorothy Lane Market. Very early in the morning and leave them on the kitchen counter for us (very limited # of tickets, first come, first serve - my sis & I were devestated when he came home empty handed!). My sister & I would ride our bikes to the theater. Movies (in the 80's) were kitchy 50-60's era stuff like "Sinbad vs EVERYONE" with bad claymation. This theater is where I learned the wonderful-annoying qualities of an empty Good n Plenty box.
Funny part is that the theater was operating when my Dad was a teen @ Oakwood. My dad told me that when he was a kid - they used to take an empty Good n Plenty box (still sealed on one end) and blow thru the open end. It makes a weird shrill-harmonica like noise.
The theater owner at that time was an odd sort. The owner in the 50-60's would come out from the projector booth, clentch his fists, rub them against his rib cage and scream - YOU ARE ALL A BUNCH OF AMINALS - YOU WREEKIN MY THEATER! (No that is not a mispelling but rather an immigant-language-accent issue). Of course the ENTIRE theater would blow harder on the boxes. I am quite sure that my father drove this poor man to an early visit over at the Wilmington sanitarium!
I vividly remember the day the theater was torn down - like "how dare they do that?" - even if I hadn't been there in 10 years...progress, not always such a good thing.
I still drive my husband crazy with the Good n Plenty boxes. Funny he doesn't take me to many movies?!
Last Edited by on Jan 08, 2010 9:09 PM
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ThomL
1 post
Dec 20, 2011
3:06 PM
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I realize that I am joining this thread rather late, but my father-in-law and mother-in-law both worked at this theater in the early 1940s; he was an usher and she sold tickets.
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