Facebook post by Roger Gaulin: “You could literally spend a whole day inside the Laurier. The movies would run non-stop except for a break now and then to collect donations for a charity or to await the drawing of special promotional items such as the dish sets, etc. For under a dime you would watch two features, a cartoon show, a newsreel report and a "Chapter” (that’s what Social Coin natives called the weekly serial shows) Place to be if it was raining and storming outside."
Only interior photo of the Laurier I have ever seen. Sad it had to be this one. Looks like it’s near the stage/screen area. The gentleman might have been the owner.
Aha! I see Dunn’s, a super deli I ate at often.
In the 1960s.
Large white building was the former Olympia. Here we have it during the 1978 blizzard.
NOT THE STADIUM THEATRE!
NOT THE STADIUM THEATRE!
Now named Teatro Variedades Ernesto Alban.
Since modified, and not for the better.
https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/closed-15-years-fairhavens-old-080421936.html
A 1976 film on marquee.
The manager owner was Maurice Safner.The theater never reopened after massive flood damage.It was torn down in 1958.
Facebook post by Roger Gaulin: “You could literally spend a whole day inside the Laurier. The movies would run non-stop except for a break now and then to collect donations for a charity or to await the drawing of special promotional items such as the dish sets, etc. For under a dime you would watch two features, a cartoon show, a newsreel report and a "Chapter” (that’s what Social Coin natives called the weekly serial shows) Place to be if it was raining and storming outside."
Only interior photo of the Laurier I have ever seen. Sad it had to be this one. Looks like it’s near the stage/screen area. The gentleman might have been the owner.
The Columbus Theatre has just closed, apparently for good, this weekend. Don’t know what will happen to it.
Probably shown circa 1943.
Saw the Italian movie “Flashback” here in the summer of 1969.
“Assunta Spina” & “Preludio d'amore.”
“Molti sogni per le strade” with Anna Magnani.
In 1938.
Newsreel Theatre down one theatre entrance.
You can also see the side of the Strand Theatre, center left.
Building with pointed roof.
This is the 1933 version, shown in New York in 1934. The cast matches that in the NYT review. So this showing was probably 1934/1935.
1932, actually.
Lots of community backlash against this rubble “eyesore” at this time.
I once saw this revived at the New York Film Festival.