My Final Thought for 2008 (feel free to re-post on your blogs)

(former location of) the Adelphi Theater
7070 - 78 N. Clark Street
Chicago, IL. 60626

File under: 49th Ward, 60626, Danger to our Community, Demolition Tragedy, Eyesore, Joe Moore's Folly, Poor Judgement by an Alderman, Un-Secured Demolition Site, Ward Wreckage

original location of video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFGhUQ548Qk

Thank you, and let's not re-elect an Alderman that would do this to our neighborhood in years to come.

- Bill Morton

Adelphi Theater

Adelphi Theater
Intersection of Clark
and Estes (1950's)

Crains Chicago Business on the Adelphi Hole Foreclosure

Foreclosures:

"Northside Community Bank has filed suit in Cook County Circuit Court to recover almost $2.2 million on a stalled 32-unit condominium building at 7070 N. Clark St., once the site of the Adelphi Theater. Work on the $10-million project apparently stopped after construction of a lower-level parking garage. An executive with Chicago developer Zuric Real Estate Development LLC could not be reached for comment”. Read more here.

- Crain's Chicago Business



Public Records Data: Foreclosures
Northside Community Bank vs. Branislav Zuric

07/01/08 08CH0023826
7070 N Clark St, Chicago, Commercial Property, $2,183,512

Adelphi Theater

Adelphi Theater

7070 N. Clark Street

Chicago, IL. 60626

1500 Seats on One Floor

Symphony Orchestra - Pipe Organ

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Adelphi Theater

7070 N. Clark Street

Chicago, IL. 60626

Adelphi Theater 2006

It was a beautiful, historic building from the begining of the century. It was a vaudeville theater, turned single screen movie theater. It stayed that way until it's untimely demolition.

The Adelphi Theater, 1917-2006.

Demolished by Golden Hands Construction, under the supervision of Alderman Joe Moore.

Read more here.

Adelphi Theater Art Deco Ushers

I moved to the Rogers Park neighborhood in the late 1970's, to attend Loyola U. I lived on Estes Avenue, and I think the Adelphi was on the southwest corner of Clark and Estes. The Adelphi’s entrance on Clark Street had a very unusual sidewalk in front it. It wasn't anything like a typical Chicago "Streets and San" sidewalk, because it contained two very large inlays, that were art-deco style images of ushers. There was one on each side, and they looked as if they were bowing to you. Each usher extended one arm to welcome you to the show, and tucked the other behind his back.I found them remarkable for two reasons. First, they belonged to only the Adelphi, in that were created right there on that spot, and would never be used anywhere else. Second, they only made sense because the building was a theatre. If someone converted it into a grocery store, for example, customers would wonder what kind of oddball has two theatre ushers outside his grocery store. Read more here.

Adelphi Theater 1959

Wow..what a trip through time! I found this page after pondering a childhood memory of the Adelphi! Anyway, to set the record straight..I know the Adelphi on Clark Street in Chicago was showing mainstream Hollywood films as early as 1959. I am sure of this, because my mom took us to see a movie there that summer, and spotted this gorgeous brand new 1959 white Ford Country Squire wagon parked directly in front of the theatre, after which she proclaimed "I gotta have one of those!". Sure enough, on Thursday, September 3 of that year, we bought one from Courtesy Ford of Chicago, brand spanking new. (fawn tan color tho). Then, on New Year's Eve, December 31 we were treated to a movie about John Dillinger which ended that night just before the end of the Fab 50s! Read more here.

The Adelphi Theater on Cinematreasures.org

The Adelphi, built in 1917 for the Ascher Brothers circuit, was designed by local architect J.E.O. Pridmore. The theater stood on Clark Street at Estes Avenue in Chicago's Rogers Park neighborhood. In the 1930s, the Adelphi received an Art Deco remodeling. The theater was modernized during the 1940s and again in the 1950s. It began to show second-run features starting in the late 1960s, and closed briefly in the early 1980s, after several years screening Spanish movies.In the mid 1980s, the Adelphi reopened as the North Shore Theater, but was again known as the Adelphi when it began to show East Indian films and became the premiere venue for Bollywood features in the Chicagoland area, despite its down-on-the-heels appearance both inside and out.The Adelphi closed in January 2002. Sadly, the still-viable theater was demolished in January 2006. Read more here.

I have my library card, do you have yours?

Chicago Public Library - Rogers Park Branch
6907 N. Clark St. 60626
(312) 744-0156
(312) 744-0353
(312) 744-7591 (FAX)


Hours:
Monday-Thursday, 9-9
Friday & Saturday, 9-5
Sunday, closed.

Location:
Half a block south of the intersection of Morse Ave. and Clark St. Two blocks southeast of the Rogers Park Metra train station, and 1/2 mile west of the CTA Morse Avenue elevated train station on the Red Line.

CTA Service:
22 Clark Bus
96 Lunt Bus
Red Line Morse Ave. stop


District:
North District Building

Type:
Two-story facility

Square Footage:
15,500Parking: 14 spaces

Meeting Room Capacity:
128

Year Built:
1999

Collection Overview:
Large branch collection,
60% adult and 40% juvenile.Equipment and Non- print materials:
* Books on Tape
* Internet

Special Collections and Collection Strengths:
* Spanish language
* NatureConnections
* Russian language
* Adult New Reader collection

Do something about it

Just to let you know, I don't just post

pictures of Rogers Park trash and tragedy.

I do whatever I can to make things better, and you should too.

Revelevant links:

Clark and Estes

North Shore Camera ? .. or did the kids who painted this mean North Shore Cinema ?

Revelevant links:
Clark and Estes

Under the train bridge on Rogers