This view of the west side of Central Avenue facing north shows the Alhambra Theatre at 321 North Central Avenue in the center of the image. Other businesses include W.B. Getchell Real Estate, Olson and Beck Shoes, Swanstrom and Ericson Clothing.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Majestic Theater - cement block one-story building with smooth cement front facade. Open door on left front, closed door on right front, double open entry alcove in center front. Left side of building has two windows and a sign reading in block letters "Belle Plaine Cement Works We build You Walk Cement Blocks Houses Stucco J Widmer Prop Phone No." cement blocks stacked next to building and near sign. Front of building has sign over alcove, reading "Majestic Theater". One man sitting on steps in straw boater hat and suit. One man standing next to steps in hat, white shirt and dark trousers. Three electrical wires leading from left edge of building to right edge of photo. Handwriting on rear reads pencil "Bernard Stradcutter Sr. standing", "048" in circle, in blue ink "Majestic Theater Belle Plaine, MN" "A184" "page 307 100%", red ink "smaller", black ink "272" crossed out with blue ink, black ink "4-22-68".
The Bijou Theater stood on Main Street, Crosby, Minnesota. Doctors Sewall and Bosel had their offices on the second floor. Two men lounge in front of the building, while another enters the theater's side door.
City Opera House was located at 401 Minnesota Avenue, Bemidji, circa 1905 (description from,"The Bemidji Area Looking Back" Pediment Publishing, 2004).
Ground was broken for the Lyceum Theater at the northwest corner of Fifth Avenue West and Superior Street on June 1, 1890 across from the Spalding Hotel.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Empress Theater, M. Bolin Millinery, St. Paul Cafe restaurant at 12 and 14 East Superior Street, the lower side, in downtown Duluth. The millinery shop is in the Brown Brothers Block. The Empress burned on May 3, 1915.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
This set of slides was used in the Faust Theater in New Richland, Minnesota, as part of the entertainment from 1914 through the 1940s. The slide show includes images of local businesses, children, and advertising, as well as national advertising. About 600 glass slides were found many years after the theater was closed. Of those, approximately half were obliterated. Many of the glass slides show water damage sustained during their years stored in the rear of Faust Theater. Of those that survived the years, fewer than 300 were in good enough condition to identify the subject matter, and those that were are included in this collection. Together they give a portrait of New Richland and the surrounding area and a sense of what it was like to go to a movie in the first half of the Twentieth Century.
Grand Opera House front entrance and fa?ºade; built by Munger and Markell; fourth avenue west and Superior street; people; Cormany photographer; post office; signs; Chamber of Commerce
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Smoldering site and frozen water after the fire burned the opera house at Fourth Avenue West and Superior Street. This is the view from the avenue looking toward Superior street.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Exterior view of the Happy Hour Theater. Admission ten cents; 129 West Superior street; vaudeville; marquee; man in ticket booth; theatrical posters; motion pictures
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections