Tivoli Theatre (Chicago)

The Tivoli Theatre was a movie palace in the Woodlawn neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois. About 1924-1925 Milton Charles was the resident organist who recorded for Marsh Laboratories on the Paramount label using the new electric recording system of Orlando R. Marsh with microphones, compared to the more common acoustic method using horns. Charles succeeded Jesse Crawford as a Marsh artist after Crawford went to New York to play at the Paramount Theater (New York City) and eventually record with Victor Talking Machine Company. [Powell, James R., Jr., Randall G. Stehle, and Jonathan D. Powell. Vintage microphones and the restoration of early Marsh Laboratories electrical 78-rpm recordings. "ARSC Journal" 2006; 37 (1): 36-47.] [ [http://www.theatreorgans.com/southerncross/Radiogram/USAfiles.htm The Virtual Radiogram - Sounds of American Organs ] ]

The theater stood just south of the southeast corner of 63rd Street and Cottage Grove Avenue, between the still-standing Strand Hotel and Cinderella Ball Room. It closed in the summer of 1963 and was demolished later that year.

A dollar store and parking lot stand on the site today.

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