Minor Theatre

The original auditorium is intact, with additional screens (done in period style with Corinthian pilasters lining the walls) next door in an adjacent building.

The Minor Theatre is located at 1015 H Street.

From the Humboldt State University Library:

http://www.oac.cdlib.org/affiliates/images/humboldt/erickson/hi-res/0150.jpg

Aloha Everyone,

The Minor was always a great place to go with your date before hitting the bars on 'the square'.

Here is an article from January 2000 regarding the purchase of the Minor and Arcata theaters:
http://tinyurl.com/m5q2h

There is alot of history about the Minor theater on their website. It opened on December 3, 1914 with 524 seats. I didn't see the current seating listed.

This is a photo of the Minor Theater.

Just for argument's sake, if the 1914 date on the building is correct, I would think there were quite a few nickelodeons built before that date that were solely for showing films.

No, not the oldest if it was built in 1912. The theater I help run, The Historic Park Theatre in Estes Park was built in 1913 for the sole purpose of showing films. Also, we are still a single screen. I also got a print from this Minor Theatre at one of my other theaters that was filthy and almost completly distroyed at the ripe old age of less than a year (sprockets on the sound track side completely chewed uo). I'm not saying it was them but.....

***Sorry, I meant 1914 in my first sentence of the above comment

I really appreciate these informations and I belive taht the historic Cinema Lumière in Pisa (Italy) is the oldest purpose-built, continually operating cinema in the world.
The Lumière opened in December 16th, 1905.
http://www.lumierecinema.it/LumiereP...riainbreve.htm

In Italy the first commercial screening of movies with fully synchronized sound took place in the Cinema Lumière (Pisa - Italy) in October 19th, 1906 by the Fabbrica Pisana di Pellicole Parlate, patented by Pietro Pierini with the name of "Isosincronizzatore".

Until march 2009, Korsør Biograf Teater (opened January 30th, 1907) in the danish city Korsør was listed the oldest cinema in the Guinness Book of World Records. Before a cinema in Szczecin, Poland, was listed as the oldest.

1986 photo of the Minor Theatre.
http://americanclassicimages.com/Default.aspx?tabid=141&txtSearch=CATAdvancedSearch1%2c5%2c3%2c-1&catpageindex=2&catpagesize=25&ProductID=23528
Another 1986 photo of the Minor Theatre.
http://americanclassicimages.com/Default.aspx?tabid=141&txtSearch=CATAdvancedSearch1%2c5%2c3%2c-1&catpageindex=2&catpagesize=25&ProductID=23529

1986 night photo of the Minor Theatre.
http://americanclassicimages.com/Default.aspx?tabid=141&txtSearch=CATAdvancedSearch1%2c5%2c3%2c-1&catpageindex=2&catpagesize=25&ProductID=23530
Another 1986 night photo of the Minor Theatre.
http://americanclassicimages.com/Default.aspx?tabid=141&txtSearch=CATAdvancedSearch1%2c5%2c3%2c-1&catpageindex=2&catpagesize=25&ProductID=23531