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Phoenix Star Theatre, 3148 E. Van Buren. This was originally part of the Del Webb Hiway House complex. They even built a huge theatre next to the resort. On the postcard, the Star Theatre has a Van Buren address, now it is called the Celebrity Theatre and is listed as 440 North 32nd Street. The ASU paper (mentioned above) gives the following information on this establishment: The Star Theater was built in 1963 by Del Webb Corporation as a convention center for the Highway House Resort. During the summers, promoter Buster Bonoff staged Broadway musicals at the theater. In the late 1960s, the theater was renamed the Celebrity Theater and converted to a full-time concert hall, featuring a round center stage and seating 2,650 patrons intimately close to the performers. The 1970s and 1980s saw the Celebrity become the hottest theater in Phoenix, drawing national and international acts like Liberace, Sammy Davis Jr., Nat King Cole, Cream, Bruce Springsteen, Bonnie Raitt, and Frank Zappa and hosting musical productions like Funny Girl and South Pacific. The theater rapidly fell into disrepair in the 1990s... Today the Celebrity Theater must compete with similar venues in more attractive neighborhoods. Google maps sattelite view shows its still there: http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Phoenix,+3148+East+Van+Buren&rls=com.microsoft:en-us:IE-SearchBox&oe=&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hq=&hnear=3148+E+Van+Buren+St,+Phoenix,+AZ+85008&gl=us&ei=qt7HTfqODIXpgQeR4PXLBA&sa=X&oi=geocode_result&ct=title&resnum=1&ved=0CBYQ8gEwAA --- On Sun, 5/8/11, Barb and Iver <charrymcl...@myfairpoint.net> wrote: From: Barb and Iver <charrymcl...@myfairpoint.net> Subject: Re: 3/8/70 To: "David Sorochty" <skull_ro...@yahoo.com>, "Deadlists" <deadlists@nemesis.CS.Berkeley.EDU>, "Charlie Miller" <charliemille...@earthlink.net> Date: Sunday, May 8, 2011, 10:06 PM I just ran across an old postcard of this theater. http://www.cardcow.com/125938/phoenix-star-theatre-3148-east-van-buren-arizona/ From: David Sorochty Sent: Sunday, May 01, 2011 3:42 PM To: Deadlists ; Charlie Miller Subject: Re: 3/8/70 Charlie - I have some newspaper article scans from 1968 & 1970 that refer to it as the "Phoenix TraveLodge Theater", with TavelLodge spelled as one word with the capitol L in the middle. Thi was talked about befoer & I think Star theater was a promoters name for eventsthere ir it may have changed names at some point. DS --- On Sun, 5/1/11, Charlie Miller <charliemille...@earthlink.net> wrote: From: Charlie Miller <charliemille...@earthlink.net> Subject: 3/8/70 To: "Deadlists" <deadlists@nemesis.CS.Berkeley.EDU> Date: Sunday, May 1, 2011, 12:25 PM The tapes that Dick Latvala circulated list this venue as Star Theatre, but Deadlists has it as Travelodge Theatre In The Round. Can anyone supply proof or any info as to why it should be listed this way, instead of how Dick Latvala listed it on his cassettes?
