For Park Ridge’s iconic Pickwick Theatre, the final credits will roll in January after almost a century of hosting moviegoers unless a 'knight in shining armor' comes along to take over operations, its owner said.
Lights illuminate the marquee outside the Pickwick Theatre on Dec. 6, 2022, in Park Ridge. The iconic theater will close in early January 2023 after almost a century of hosting moviegoers and events, its owner said.
Currently, Vlahakis said, the plan is for the Pickwick to show its last movie Jan. 8. He’s thinking the picture will be “Gone With the Wind.”“We don’t want it to close, and maybe somebody will see this as a golden opportunity for them,” Vlahakis said. “But Dave and I just can’t do it anymore. I’m at the age when I want to go to bed at 10 o’clock at night.”
With fewer movies to show, the theater loses out on opportunities to bring regulars back more times in a set period, meaning it sells fewer tickets. Vlahakis’ father bought the theater in 1967 alongside three other partners, he said. By 1972, his father was the sole proprietor. He started working at the Pickwick as an usher at 13, he said, and would watch the audience laugh at the punchlines of comedies and jump at the scare points of horror films.
Jones grew up in Park Ridge and said she saw her first-ever movie at the Pickwick. She thinks it was “Pinocchio.”
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