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Albany Park movie house
Posted by: jamessolon ()
Date: May 28, 2014 01:23AM

My father spent many years living near Eastwood and Kedzie. He remembers a movie house north of Lawrence on the west side of the street. Was it where that new apartment building is being built?

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Re: Albany Park movie house
Posted by: PKDickman ()
Date: May 28, 2014 09:38AM

The Alba theater

http://cinematreasures.org/theaters/1007

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Re: Albany Park movie house
Posted by: trainutlen ()
Date: May 28, 2014 01:20PM

It later, in the mid 1960's became the Alba A-G0-GO. It was just next door to a kosher deli,

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Re: Albany Park movie house
Posted by: Business7007 ()
Date: February 08, 2015 01:08AM

The deli just South of the Alba was called the Bagel. A great place for really good kosher-style food.

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