Majestic Theater

The Film Daily Yearbook 1941 & 1943 editions give the same information as stated above. In the 1950 edition it is listed with a seating capacity of 1,154 and the subsidiary of Paramount Pictures are no longer operating it.

I was born and raised in Normal, Illinois, across the street from Bloomington and move away in 1960. The Majestic Theater was located one block East of the intersection of Main Street and Washington on the Southwest corner katty corner from the Bloomington Library. I was born in 1938 and I can never remember the theater being open. I remember being told that is was closed in the early 1930s. The theater was torn down in the 1950s and replaced with a savings and loan.

I am wondering if this is where the current Michael's restaurant is located today. The fascade of the building looks like it may have been a theater and there is a marquee. I have not been inside this building but I have wondered if it was a theater at one point.

According to the excellent book 'Historic Theatres in Illinois, 1883-1960' by Konrad Schiecke, 'the Majestic Theatre opened in 1910 and closed in 1943. It was demolished in 1956.'

A Barton theater organ size 3/11 was installed in the Majestic Theater in 1926.

This article about the history of the Majestic was in today's Pantagraph.