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And Policy Changes ToldMONMOUTH — Theatergoers in .Monmouth can attend a movie on only five nights a week starting immediately, according to James Toal, new owner of the Rivoii Theater, 219 S. Main St.Toal said the movie house wi)l be closed on Wednesdays and Thursdays hereafter.The new owner has purchased the theater business he has operated as manager since it was opened in January, 1938.Once Were SevenThe Rivoii is Monmouth’s only motion picture theater, a survivor of a business that once included as many as seven establishments at one time, among them an outdoor theater called the Air Dome and located on the site of the present movie house.When the theater opened it was one of three in operation in Monmouth, but the Ada, owned by the same syndicate, closed upon completion of the Rivoii, and the Bijou continued in business a number of yea,rs before closing its curtain for the last time about 15 years ago.Prior to completion of the present building, (he Rivoii was located on the opposite side ot South Main Street in a site now occupied by the Brown Lynch ScoU store. The Ada was on the Public Square in a building that now houses the Johnson and Brown Paint Store and the Bijou operated on South Main Street at the site of the present P. N. Hirsch store.
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Galesburg Register Mail
Galesburg, Illinois, US
Thu, Jul 06, 1972
Page 12
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