Kallet Civic Center
159 Main Street,
Oneida,
NY
13421
159 Main Street,
Oneida,
NY
13421
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The Kallet Civic Center opened as the Kallet Theater in 1938. I don’t know the year that the Kallet Theater stopped being a movie theater but after closing, it became a skating rink. After sitting vacant for a number of years, the Greater Oneida Civic Center Inc. leased the building from the City of Oneida in February of 1983 and began renovating the building. The Kallet Civic Center opened in April of 1983.
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Some photos of the Kalley Theatre.
http://www.roadsidenut.com/kallet703.jpg
http://www.roadsidenut.com/kallet7031.jpg
http://www.roadsidenut.com/kallet7032.jpg
Here is a more recent photo of the Kallet Civic Center.
This is a 2008 photo.
A 1937 picture of the Kallet Theater is here.
1976 Photo
1981 Photo
Another photo can be seen here.
The architects of the Kallet Theatre in Oneida were Bley & Lyman (Lawrence Bley and Duane Lyman), according to an Libbey-Owens-Ford ad in Boxoffice, November 12, 1938. This might have been Bley & Lyman’s only theater. The ad is the only reference to them I’ve found in Boxoffice, and all the Internet references (there are a lot) are about non-theater buildings.
Photo of the Kallet courtesy Nick’s Classic American Theatres.
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