Studio Pizza & Orpheum Theater

50sSNIPES on November 21, 2025 at 7:09 pm

Rogers Cinemas took over the Pic Theatre in June 2005 after being independently operated for many years, including the owners of Gartner’s Department Store. One of the owners of that store died six months at old age after the Rogers takeover. The Pic closed as a movie theater in the Fall of 2008 because of failing to compete against the nearby Copper Country Mall Cinemas after 27 years of competing against it.

robboehm on May 16, 2021 at 4:21 pm

For a time in the 1920s it was operated by the Thomas Theatre Group.

kencmcintyre on January 19, 2007 at 6:54 pm

Here is an account of the fire on June 26, 1959:

Fire Threatens Business Area Of Hancock

Two wooden buildings, both landmarks of Hancock’s earlier days, were virtually destroyed by fire of undetermined origin Thursday night. The Mason building was gutted by flames that spread in an adjacent apartment building.

The Mason building, which had two apartments upstairs, was built by the late Col. William Mason before the turn of the century. Among the Mason structures threatened was the Orpheum Theater, Hancock’s last. The Kenesaw Theater was destroyed by fire in April.