My name is Kelly Ellis. On October 28, 2011 around 11:00 a.m. Sarah and I, along with two of my children drove in a car to the Granada Theater located at 106 N. 9th street in Mount Vernon, Illinois. According to my Tom Tom, G.P.S. navigational system the latitude is 88 degrees 54.156 W and the longitude 38 degrees 19.075 N. Sarah traveled 59.60 miles and that took one hour and ten minutes.
The Granada Theater was built in 1937 by the Boller brothers. It was the first theater in Mount Vernon to have air conditioning. It began as a theater then in the 1970's it was used as office space. It was again used as a theater in the 1980's and I saw many movies there as a pre-teen and teenager.
Now the Granada Center for the Performing Arts is working on restoring the building to it original beauty. It can be rented for public and private functions. The money goes toward the restoration project. For more information copy and paste this site,
http://www.granada.mvn.net/Facility%20Rental%20Information.html
Occasionally a family friendly movie will be played at the theater for no charge. This is a good time for families to go enjoy a night out with no additional costs. The have played "It's A Wonderful Life" and recently the showed the animated film "Shrek".
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