Theatre Eitel's Palace AKA Palace
Cinerama film formats shown 3-strip
3-strip dates 07/29/53 to 11/01/59 and   06/28/61 to 04/01/62
70mm dates  
Screen curvature and size 76ft louvered screen
Address 157 Bismarck Convention Center
Comments  
Current status  Live theatre

Below from 07/29/53 Chicago Daily Tribune scanned by Michael Coate

 

Miss Cinerama Dione Ritch, "cuts" the one year anniversary cake while her assistant Doreen Doyle, Otto Kietel and Mayor Kennelly watch July 29, 1954.

Ticket flyer front

 

Ticket flyer back

 

 

 

Brunch menu for the Swiss Chalet restaurant in the Chicago Bismarck Hotel

 

 

 

 

Cinerama Cocktail

Promotion booklet

 

Below a large group of nuns leaving after seeing Seven Wonders of The World on December 12, 1956

Below from http://www.fred.krauss.name/Theaters/palace.html

Mary Spangenberg, Stewardess for Pan American Airlines, Douglas Helgeson, Managing Director of Cinerama, and Louise K. Buell, executive manager of the Bakers Club, passing out birthday cake to kids attending Cinerama at Palace Theater on July 29th, 1957