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Photographer: Photos courtesy of the Bentley Historical Library.
Caption: Uptown Theaters Marker — left images
Additional Description: Michigan Theater and East Liberty Street, 1929. The film "Finders Keepers," starring Jack Oakie, was playing.
Top left inset caption: In 1940 "Duke Ellington and His Famous Orchestra" played at the Michigan for two days between film screenings. The Ann Arbor News display ad promised "primitive rhythms, weird melodies, amazing syncopations...music not other band can play."
Top right inset caption: Henry Aldridge was one of the leaders in saving the Michigan Theater. For years he had worked with others to restore the Barton Theater Pipe Organ, originally used to accompany silent films.
Bottom left inset caption: Founded in 1963, the Ann Arbor Film Festival has been held at the Michigan Theater every year since 1980. It is the longest running independent and experimental film festival in North America.
Submitted: July 11, 2021, by Joel Seewald of Madison Heights, Michigan.
Database Locator Identification Number: p596749
File Size: 3.575 Megabytes

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