12th Street Cinema celebrates silver anniversary

By Ron Burtz on Wednesday, October 30, 2024

Non-profit theater still largely run by volunteer staff

  • Two of the 12th Street Cinema’s three paid staff members are shown here in the theater lobby. Brooke Johnson and Jonathan Dyer are responsible for selling tickets, opening and closing the theater each weekend, managing concessions and clean up. Not pictured is the theater’s manager Sheryl Hall.
    Two of the 12th Street Cinema’s three paid staff members are shown here in the theater lobby. Brooke Johnson and Jonathan Dyer are responsible for selling tickets, opening and closing the theater each weekend, managing concessions and clean up. Not pictured is the theater’s manager Sheryl Hall.
    This month Aurora’s 12th Street Cinema is celebrating a quarter century of bringing first run movies to town and doing it not to make money, but as a public service. Since 1999 the theater has existed so that families can enjoy seeing a first-run movie in a theater with popcorn and all the extras, and do it at an affordable price. Twenty-five years ago in 1999, Aurora had not had a m...

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