Don Theater
710 Bolton Avenue,
Alexandria,
LA
71301
710 Bolton Avenue,
Alexandria,
LA
71301
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The Don Theater in Alexandria, LA is another theater I came across on the web. The following is a persons recollection of this theater:
“There were the Saturday afternoon matinees at the Paramount, Joy or Don Theaters (single screens with one feature that might play for weeks). When we came out of the air-conditioned Don Theatre we couldn’t wait to cross a busy Bolton Avenue to get a snow cone on a hot summer day before having the theater ticket sales lady call our mothers to come pick us up”.
(Click the link below for a photo of the Don Theater)
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I don’t recall seeing anything in Deridder, but I thank you, Don and Billy for the information. From another source I learnhed that the third indoor was the Lee and that the drive-in was the Pines.
I seem to recall two of the indoors being on the same side of the street and one of the nicer ones being nearby on the opposite side of a side street.
I remember the Pines repeatedly playing a re-release of the eight-year-old “Thunder Road” as a co-feature or third feature and that the drive-in seemed to infested with mosquitos. The heat and humidity were so high you couldn’t keep the windows closed, and yet when the windows were open, you’d turn into a pin cushion.
Had no problems at any of the indoors.
In 1955 the Don Theater had 786 seats. The address given is 710 Bolton Avenue.
i have a bunch of records a few signed by don. i would like to donate them to the theater if they could be used. he is my second cousin and my grandmother gave them to me. if anyone knows who i can talk to please let me know. thanks
Hello danieldain. My name is “Don” and I would give these records a very good home if you don’t have any luck finding you cousin. Good luck!
Don…
Another photo of the Don is here.
1982 photo of the Don Theatre.
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The address for the Don Theatre is 710 Bolton Ave., the theatre is still standing but looks vacant, right next door to a discount super market.
Here is another 1982 photo of the Don.
This is a 2009 photo of the Don.
Another 2009 photo of the Don is here.
Photo, front of theatre, Boxoffice magazine, January 6, 1951:
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