Hilliard Theatre (not political propaganda)

[Jim O'Bryan]

2nd run after it was a porno theatre.. Some one came in after us but did not last that long...

Stephen

It was never a porno theater. It showed R rated movies, at the time it did cause a sensation.

It started with Stewardess in 3-D, which did have an amazing run, but not porno. I doubt that the movie would even get an R rating in this day and age. It ended with Behind the Green Door and DeepThroat. HOWEVER, the city never allowed them to show anything in these films past an r-rating which caused them all sorts of problems with patrons.

I actually think "King of Hearts," "Rocky Horror Picture Show" were the lewdest things ever shown there.

Drick

I only mention the park as during the election Ryan Patrick Demro has talked about closing some of the smaller parks and finding space or adding to the larger parks we have. This would give us the same acreage of greenspace. That park was one he spoke of closing or changing.

Only place on the westside with Tennis courts.

FWIW


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[Phil Florian]

Is this a chicken v. egg situation? Will the city pull the trigger on something as drastic as tearing down the Silver Coast (as another Northland Resident, I would lose no sleep over this, either) apartments to make way for a parking deck without a business plan for the building(s) around it? Or will some new money invest in a district that needs more business parking in hopes that the city will do the necessary thing?

I am personally thinking parking in this part of Lakewood is needed, regardless of the status of the Hilliard Theater. This area has some of the nicest store front looks (in particular the Madison side of the Hilliard Theater) but little is hanging in there. Some of these fronts are businesses that brought their customers with them, like the dance studio and more recently the fencing school but so many others are still empty shells. Parking and some promotion of the area may solve that and give incentive for other business money to flow into the area knowing that if something did take off, it would have places for new customers to park.

I know folks have recently talked with Mayor FitzGerald about this but does anyone know what current council person for this ward Tom Bullock thinks about all of this? He came to our block party earlier this summer but sadly it was before all this recent push started so I didn't think to chat about it then.

[robert dobush]

Currently there has been some recent interest- by, of course the Historical Society, a developer and a private party . I am hoping that something good will happen very soon. In the meantime. I will be up patching on the roof again Tuesday and hoping for the best. bob d.