Cartoon Shows

Loved going to the cartoon shows on Saturday mornings. We kids lined up clear around the corner. - Angela Brown

If you found a star ...

Loved going to the movies there back in the day. Remember if you found a star on the bottom of your drink cup you got a free drink. - Krista Treat Sullivan

Ticket Price? - A Bottle Cap

I went there so many times! Especially when we got in for a BOTTLE cap! Twice, if memory serves, some promotion had a plane fly over Quincy and drop paper plates marked with free tickets -- I found one in a mad dash around my grandmothers house, What a great day., I often look up in the sky and wonder if another plane will drop more free stuff. I will keep looking!  - Mark Curran

Standing In Line

Mom used to take me to see Disney movies and the like. I remember standing in line around the corner of 5th street waiting to get in. I believe that side of the bldg was green and black. -  Cindy HuechtemanTimme

Quite The Hooplah

 I saw Jesus Christ Superstar there when it first came out. Was quite the hooplah over it then. – Sharon Tenhouse

SOOO GLAD it is being restored!

I know this theater was a huge part of my mother's and father's childhood and youth and young adulthood in Quincy in the 1920's through 1940's. SOOO GLAD it is being restored! Excellent decision. It will be an entertainment draw for the entire region. -  Marilyn Irene Keller Rittmeyer

Always A Special Time

I got to see “Star Wars” and many others there! It was always a special time to be in that theater. - Bobbette Kelley

Saturday Matinee Double-Features

I remember that when I was nine or ten years old (1966 or 67),  the Washington Theater held a summer matinee double-feature horror fest and it featured such horror classics as BILLY THE KID VS DRACULA, BLOOD BATH, ZONTAR THE THING FROM VENUS, CURSE OF THE SWAMP CREATURE and other fine gems of the cinema.  It was like a quarter to get in and it didn’t matter that these movies weren’t very good (and some were even in black and white) – they had plenty of scares for a young kid and, armed with a big dill pickle from the concession stand and sitting in air-conditioning on a hot summer day was like being in heaven.  Of course, I wanted to see all the movies being shown that summer (what young boy didn’t) but I only remember seeing one double-feature – THE ROBOT VS THE AZTEC MUMMY and THE FROZEN DEAD.  I recently saw part of “Robot” on TV.  Golly, it was bad, but I still fondly remember all the matinee movies I got to enjoy at the Washington Theater as a young man. - Greg Walz, Granite City IL

Saturday morning cartoons

Saturday morning cartoons, sponsored by Pepsi, gave away certificates for ice cream sundaes @ Bernies. - Ron Kelley

Old Yeller

I saw Old Yeller there and cried and cried. Wonderful memories -- Jane Fletcher Davis

Favorite Childhood Place

One of my favorite childhood places! 35 cents on Saturday afternoon got us a double or triple feature and my parents a few hours of peace, likely. My oldest daughter's first movie was there...The Muppet Movie. - Peggy Morrison Litt

Largest crowd

I was a usher '61 - '63. I think the largest crowds ever was for the movie Gypsy with Natalie Wood. Sold out twice the same night and still turned people away. Recall people even standing in the wall aisles.  I forget what the admission price was but with that and concession receipts I twice had a walking police escort to the bank night deposit one block away. - Gerry Logsdon

Saw Jaws There

I saw Jaws there ... Spent most of my time in the aisle hiding my face 😂 - Stace F

A Grocery Bag Full Of Popcorn

A long time ago... my Grandma would take all of her grandkids there on Wednesday’s with a large paper grocery bag full of popcorn. Admission was a Pepsi bottle cap for each. It was so damn noisy, you couldn’t hear a word of the movie. - Kathy N

So many memories ...

So many memories. Every Saturday my dad took neighbor kids and me to the Washington for cartoons. Now that I’m old, I totally get why he took us even though money was tight. Parental privacy. But not just cartoons but Buck Rogers and Gene Autry and Hopalong Cassidy And many more. The concession was a paradise of candy we didn’t get at home. Ju-Ju Bees and Sugar Daddy and the plckles. Balcony was great. Boys would spit on girls below to get attention. It was a grand place and loved by many of us. - Shirley B

The Wolfman ... Live!

I remember about the early 50s, around Halloween they featured the Wolf man movie late. About half way thru the movie,  a person came screeching down the aisle dressed like the wolfman. Wow, you really clung on your boyfriend. It was fun. - LouAnn G

Apartments

My grandmother lived in the apartments right next to it. The lady that made the popcorn (Norma?) lived next to her & she used to let me go down behind the theatre in a basement & help her make it.🤗 There was about 6 apartments up there. They were beautiful. - Kathy Wittmer

Sunday matinee

When I was in grade school, my dad would drop me off there to see a matinee' on Sunday afternoon. When the show was over I'd walk down to the Knights of Columbus hall and wait for him to finish playing cards for my ride home. - David Ullman, Carbondale IL

The last movie

The last movie I saw there was ET. It (the theater) was already closed then, somehow the Adams Theatre was able to rent it due to the very popular movie to allow all to see it. – Randy Gallaher, Quincy IL

An awesome place for a 10 yr old

When I was probably a 10 yr old, my Grandmother lived in an apartment above what is now Winter's Wing (The Forum ) . We would stay with her and go to Washington theater on Saturday mornings and watch movies. My great uncle worked as an usher, so he would take us up to the balcony . While we were there, we could have popcorn or I remember a dill pickle on a stick.  After the show we headed down to Zim's for chili dogs and a shake to eat in Washington Park . That was an awesome place for a 10 yr old . – Kevin K. Ostermiller, Quincy IL