The staff is cordial and they have a great concession area.
The Bijou is classical,- really historical, and over 100 years old. We liked the way they have their restaurant next door directly connected to the theater. The small venue setting is our preference and the seating arrangement at the Bijou is ideal - with a good view of the stage from most areas. The Art Garfunkel concert was the first event we attended at the Knoxville Bijou and it was very good.
Popcorn, air conditioned upholstered seats and especially the smell of film and projection room “stuff” as you got to the top of the hidden staircase (by the men’s restroom) leading up to the projection room.My wife nagged me to get the Garfunkel tickets in December 2018 so I purchased seats from Ticketmaster at 10:01 AM on the morning they went on sale and got really good seats. I can still to this day remember the smells (good smells ) when you would walk into the building. The building was gutted but the original front wall and side walls of the building were salvaged and it was indeed reopened. My father was a news announcer on the local radio station KCIL and I recall him telling me of his broadcasting the event live all night long. By the time I went to work for the BIJOU in mid 1960’s the Grand had been closed but the building was still there between CITY HALL on the corner and Woolworths on the eastern side. The Bijou and the GRAND were owned by the BIJOU AMUSEMENT COMPANY. There is no recognizable landmark remaining on the site. Today the entire property has been purchased by the bank, all original buildings torn down and a new large bank building is on the site of all 4 original buildings. At that time there was a large bank immediately next door to the east and a bicycle shop and an outboad motor shop (Beverly Johnson’s) to the west. The Bijou was three doors east of the corner of Roussell St.
1 block to the west of the BIJOU was the Grand Theatre. About 3 or 4 blocks east of its location was the FOX Theatre. The Bijou was located in maybe the 400 to 600 block of Main Street. It is not where NEAR the location of the BIJOU theatre. The google map photo of the Bijou Theatre is totally inaccurate. If the First National Bank is still in the same location it was then, then the approximate address of the Bijou was 7910 Main, which is the bank’s current address. That’s a considerable distance southeast of the location where Google Maps has put its pin icon for this theater.Ī 1973 source indicates that the Bijou was located where the drive-up area of the First National Bank was located by 1973. Ellzey says that the Bijou, Fox, and Grand were all on the three-block stretch of Main Street between Goode Street and Gabasse Street.
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The Google Books preview of the Arcadia Press book has two photos of the Bijou (scroll down a bit for the second) as well as one of the slightly more decorative Fox (opened in 1936, according to the book.) Both theaters had modern fronts.īill Ellzey’s Daily Comet column for Jhas a question from a former resident of Houma asking for information about Houma’s movie theaters. The 1940 house might have been a remodel, or perhaps an entirely new building. However, a Bijou Theatre was listed at Houma in the 1927 Film Daily Yearbook. Thomas Blum Cobb and Mara Currie’s book Houma (from Arcadia’s Images of America series) says that the Bijou was built in 1940.
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