The former Lyric Theatre is NOT demolished.
The address is 314 Oak Street.
Industrial Impact Corporation has confirmed to me today 1/26/21, that it is still currently in use as their offices.
Opened as the Star Theater in 1912.
Renamed the Liberty Theater in 1919.
Renamed Mesa Theater circa 1950, then back to Liberty Theater circa 1974.
Below description credit Steve & Denise Hight of Historical Photos of Fruita & Western Colorado, accompanied the circa 1945 photo credit Harold Sanborn added to the gallery.
“Pagosa Springs business district, circa 1945.
The town of Pagosa Springs, embedded in the San Juan National Forest, is the only incorporated municipality in Archuleta County, and is thus the country seat. It has a population of about 2200 people in a county with fewer than 15,000 people. It was named after a sulfurous hot spring, thought to be the world’s deepest, called by the Ute people “Pah gosah,” which means something like “stinky water.”
Harold Sanborn, owner and operator of the Sanborn Souvenir Company of Denver, took this photograph of Pagosa Springs’ business district on one of his countless photographing trips through Colorado, probably in or around 1945. The dates on the license plates are too blurry to make out with certainty –– the one on the right closest to his camera looks like it is dated 194? –– and the film playing at the theater, “Eadie Was a Lady,” starring Ann Miller, was released in January 1945.
Most of the buildings visible in this photo of Pagosa Street are still intact and recognizable today. The street runs southwest at this point. Sanborn was looking west-southwest. From the right, the first building after the liquor store was built in 1912 as the Archuleta Mercantile. The easternmost suite, the portion nearest the viewer, was the Star Theater, while the bulk of the building was given over to the mercantile. After the second of two fires, however, the building was restored and remodeled in 1919, with the Star Theater returning as the Liberty Theater, and the mercantile being replaced by the Metropolitan Hotel. When Sanborn took this photo, both of those establishments were still in business. The hotel no longer exists today, but the Liberty continued under that name until at least 1950. The owner changed its name to the Mesa Theater sometime after 1950, and kept it under that name until he sold it in 1974, sometime after which the old Liberty name was restored. (The theater’s website and the plaque on the building both say the name Liberty Theater has been used continuously since 1919, but “Box Office” magazine, which kept close track of these things, records the sales and name changes. Photos exist of the theater with the Mesa Theater marquee.)
At the time of the photo, between the theater and the hotel sat the Rickelton Drug Store, which also housed the U.S. Post Office. The next building, with the stuccoed, tiered façade, was, and remains still, Jackisch Pharmacy, which opened in 1929. The next couple of building have been replaced since with newer buildings that actually look more in keeping with the others on the street. The three-story brick building, then Hersch’s Piggly Wiggly, a franchised supermarket, still exists. The next four buildings seem to also still exist, but remodeled, and newer buildings have filled the empty lots between them. Finally, crossing Pagosa Street where it turns sharply west, the three buildings, centered by Dee’s Grocery market, also still exist, but have been refaced to look more like a single building. It is the Archuleta County Courthouse."
Photo credit Private Collection, courtesy Urban Remains.
Colonial Theatre promos are of the stage play “The Brat” which ran on Broadway March-July 1917, and was coming to Chicago as of December 1917.
Jay Barnes column 2.
I believe the Capitol Theatre photos, all of them, are correct.
The candy store to the right is in several of them, and it was the original corner entrance to the Scenic Theatre.
The Capitol entrance moved to the left after the Scenic entrance became the candy store.
The tax record photo is also the same photo.
Also the remodeling brochure image shows it to be the same Capitol marquee, with candy store to the right next door in that as well.
Address is 12-14 N. Main Street.
It is being converted into 50 apartments with 2700 square feet of commercial space called the Scenic Salinger.
Complete is expected October 2021.
Marquee letters were found during recent construction per below link with photos.
Admins: Needs Update Above.
The former Lyric Theatre is NOT demolished. The address is 314 Oak Street. Industrial Impact Corporation has confirmed to me today 1/26/21, that it is still currently in use as their offices.
Credit Steve & Denise Hight who maintain Historical Photos of Fruita & Western Colorado.
Opened as the Star Theater in 1912. Renamed the Liberty Theater in 1919. Renamed Mesa Theater circa 1950, then back to Liberty Theater circa 1974. Below description credit Steve & Denise Hight of Historical Photos of Fruita & Western Colorado, accompanied the circa 1945 photo credit Harold Sanborn added to the gallery.
“Pagosa Springs business district, circa 1945.
The town of Pagosa Springs, embedded in the San Juan National Forest, is the only incorporated municipality in Archuleta County, and is thus the country seat. It has a population of about 2200 people in a county with fewer than 15,000 people. It was named after a sulfurous hot spring, thought to be the world’s deepest, called by the Ute people “Pah gosah,” which means something like “stinky water.”
Harold Sanborn, owner and operator of the Sanborn Souvenir Company of Denver, took this photograph of Pagosa Springs’ business district on one of his countless photographing trips through Colorado, probably in or around 1945. The dates on the license plates are too blurry to make out with certainty –– the one on the right closest to his camera looks like it is dated 194? –– and the film playing at the theater, “Eadie Was a Lady,” starring Ann Miller, was released in January 1945.
Most of the buildings visible in this photo of Pagosa Street are still intact and recognizable today. The street runs southwest at this point. Sanborn was looking west-southwest. From the right, the first building after the liquor store was built in 1912 as the Archuleta Mercantile. The easternmost suite, the portion nearest the viewer, was the Star Theater, while the bulk of the building was given over to the mercantile. After the second of two fires, however, the building was restored and remodeled in 1919, with the Star Theater returning as the Liberty Theater, and the mercantile being replaced by the Metropolitan Hotel. When Sanborn took this photo, both of those establishments were still in business. The hotel no longer exists today, but the Liberty continued under that name until at least 1950. The owner changed its name to the Mesa Theater sometime after 1950, and kept it under that name until he sold it in 1974, sometime after which the old Liberty name was restored. (The theater’s website and the plaque on the building both say the name Liberty Theater has been used continuously since 1919, but “Box Office” magazine, which kept close track of these things, records the sales and name changes. Photos exist of the theater with the Mesa Theater marquee.)
At the time of the photo, between the theater and the hotel sat the Rickelton Drug Store, which also housed the U.S. Post Office. The next building, with the stuccoed, tiered façade, was, and remains still, Jackisch Pharmacy, which opened in 1929. The next couple of building have been replaced since with newer buildings that actually look more in keeping with the others on the street. The three-story brick building, then Hersch’s Piggly Wiggly, a franchised supermarket, still exists. The next four buildings seem to also still exist, but remodeled, and newer buildings have filled the empty lots between them. Finally, crossing Pagosa Street where it turns sharply west, the three buildings, centered by Dee’s Grocery market, also still exist, but have been refaced to look more like a single building. It is the Archuleta County Courthouse."
Crisper version of the 1962 photo posted in 2014. Photo credit Chicago History Museum/Getty Images.
https://photos.com/featured/down-randolph-street-chicago-history-museum.html?fbclid=IwAR2tm7aXf4QHdqGIwerBNVJX9SKgRGj6CLZKczTi5tBich3zjb0nfX6NZX4
Photo credit Chicago History Museum/Getty Images.
https://photos.com/featured/down-randolph-street-chicago-history-museum.html?fbclid=IwAR2tm7aXf4QHdqGIwerBNVJX9SKgRGj6CLZKczTi5tBich3zjb0nfX6NZX4
Circa 1925 photo credit Chicago History Museum/Getty Images.
https://photos.com/featured/mcvickers-theater-chicago-history-museum.html?fbclid=IwAR2O3aTuyumnMKCAAxP3jksWPn-SojybixmHAwh_6XPUaUFs3HB2hBI4zXs
Central Park Theatre marquee in 1966 at 0:55 in the video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4PVmYUCD0E
Correction: August 5, 1966.
Colonial Theatre promos on the Woods Theatre Building nearing completion 1917/1918. Description in comments.
http://cinematreasures.org/theaters/983/photos/332682
Photo credit Private Collection, courtesy Urban Remains. Colonial Theatre promos are of the stage play “The Brat” which ran on Broadway March-July 1917, and was coming to Chicago as of December 1917. Jay Barnes column 2.
https://idnc.library.illinois.edu/?a=d&d=NYC19171226.2.195&e=——-en-20–1–img-txIN———
1931 Yiddish poster added courtesy Noach Hoffman.
This murder story also uses the Capitol tax record photo.
https://medium.com/the-asylum-antiquarian/a-fiendish-murder-the-rhode-island-cold-case-you-never-heard-of-e353771e8bcc
I believe the Capitol Theatre photos, all of them, are correct. The candy store to the right is in several of them, and it was the original corner entrance to the Scenic Theatre. The Capitol entrance moved to the left after the Scenic entrance became the candy store. The tax record photo is also the same photo. Also the remodeling brochure image shows it to be the same Capitol marquee, with candy store to the right next door in that as well.
11/11/69-11/25/69 photo, the run of “The Gypsy Moths” at the State-Lake Theatre.
11/11/69-11/25/69 photo. “Vixen” ran from 2/21/69-12/18/69 at the Loop Theatre.
The marquee will be restored as part of the new Sequoia Drive-In Business Park.
https://thesungazette.com/article/business/2021/01/06/drive-in-sign-to-get-new-look/?fbclid=IwAR1-OtlGRMUctWGBkgGrxNZwyAWbNRR2UyG6wvRP7mI-cV5F-Be_BFu0U_M
Originally posted in the comments by Paul Fortini in 2007.
One not in the gallery, May 1974 photo credit MasMiguel.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/masmiguel/7998302992?fbclid=IwAR2J2YF41bnQ8gD_M6lQMQ46MCzZN5mRASw5qpMI8M_jsySdrrQFGgZNpZ4
Marquee update.
https://www.seacoastonline.com/story/news/local/2021/01/05/exeter-ioka-marquee-new-home/4136023001/?fbclid=IwAR2yAVABp1CJz2RRx3UPphWbqXcDjRQZHO9SCqqjh66pJ69B0mULdCLdxyA
Address is 12-14 N. Main Street. It is being converted into 50 apartments with 2700 square feet of commercial space called the Scenic Salinger. Complete is expected October 2021. Marquee letters were found during recent construction per below link with photos.
https://www.fosters.com/story/news/local/2021/01/05/rochester-nh-scenic-theater-redevelopment/4138980001/?fbclid=IwAR13aaEUL776wJO3FwSem-1E4wdfA0pl98zYlnhd1Kp3JFP-D_CZgFKPw0E
Update to an earlier story also in the link.
https://whatnowlosangeles.com/renderings-netflix-unveils-plans-for-rewind-rehab-of-egyptian-theatre/?fbclid=IwAR3jRMA0yTdRW5NjLBXVFQCOY5tqHrsYU30RPxI3LRTkn5tmWU-ps8AK98U
Uptown Theatre Foundation Inc. is the Uptown Theatre’s owners JAM Productions. That is their address on Goethe.
3 images added including marquee and screen. Starlight is the correct spelling. One image claims it closed in 1972.
January 2, 2021 article about the Grand and other Lehigh Valley theatres.
https://www.mcall.com/news/local/mc-nws-small-movie-theaters-covid-20210102-jkudgdyroncwjme5wzi6siawae-story.html?fbclid=IwAR2i1Krv1KH33103TLQjECaEw59MKuPaD35JkExzDBUaCJObeYwH8HVck7k