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The Colonial Theater Marquee in better times, downtown Laconia, N.H., summer 1966 (Dean Dexter Polaroid photo)
Save the Colonial Theater!
Or, another way to put it: Anyone got ?????? dollars to burn through to do it?
The Colonial Theater, Laconia, New Hampshire, marquee and blade, the Summer of '66 (Dean Dexter Polaroid photo, all rights reserved).
December, 2008
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Well...Doesn't hurt to ask...
It could once again become one of the great show halls in central New Hampshire!
Opened in 1914 with 1200-plus seats under the management of Charles H. Waldron of Boston, here's the interior of Laconia's venerable Colonial Theater as it appeared in the early 1970s after the elegant deep red curtains were removed from the box seating areas in each side of the auditorium, and when new reclining seats were installed in the middle section; also before the whole area, including the stage were broken up to create a five-screen multiplex in 1983. The building has been closed since 2002. Photo: Dean Dexter collection.
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NEW: City of Laconia Has Option to By Theater
Officials Tour Theater, August 5, 2010; "Good
Shape!"
Current Owners: Building is Sound
Interested Parties Coming Forward -- May 1, 2010
For More information, Contact The Office of City Manager, Laconia, N.H. or The Friends site on Facebook
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Old Postcards showing the entrance lobby
and ticket window, the seats and balcony from the stage, and grand stage and
orchestra pit of Laconia's historic Colonial Theater in its heyday. These and
other postcards may be available for sale on Ebay here:
link
Related links:
Laconia Daily Sun Story and Letter Series:
Entrance to Laconia's historic Colonial Theater, Main Street, 1954, with the blade over the marquee. MGM's "Men of the Fighting Lady" is the feature with Van Johnson and Walter Pidgeon; and without the blade and marquee in a vintage postcard.
December, 2008
Laconia Mayor Robinson W. Smith is sworn in for a fifth term on the stage of the Colonial Theater by City Solicitor, later Superior Court Judge William W. Keller, March 27, 1955. Also pictured is the Rev. John S. Vail, and the Rev. George Chicoine, who delivered the benediction and invocation respectively. Dr. Smith holds the record of number of terms as Laconia Mayor. He served also as assistant commissioner of agriculture and later as New Hampshire's first State Veterinarian, from July 1, 1921 until his death on February 11,1964. (Dean Dexter Collection)
The year was 1939
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December, 2008
Posted: November 17, 2008, updated February 24, 2010, June 6, 2010.
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