Alger Theatre
24 South F Street,
Lakeview,
OR
97630
24 South F Street,
Lakeview,
OR
97630
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Opened in 1940 with 500 seats in orchestra and balcony levels. The Alger Theatre is a nice, small-town Art Deco style theatre. In recent years a stage was added to the auditorium, reducing the seating capacity to the current 344.
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Ken Layton
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From the UC Davis collection:
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This is a recent photo of the Alger Theater.
In the early sixties, Alger Theaters, headquartered in Lakeview, ran the Alger, Marius Theater and Circle J-M Drive-In, all in Lakeview. President was Janice Alger.
In the introduction above, “Art Deco” is a link that brings you back to this page. I don’t see the purpose of it.
More photos can be seen here.
This 2007 article gives the year built as 1940 and seat count as 344.
The Alger Theater is listed in the 1950 Film Daily with 500 seats.
Here is another photo of the Alger.
2009 close up of the marquee and box office
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From the 1950s a photo postcard from Lakeview that captured a view of the Alger Theatre.
Dennis Cozzalio wrote a wonderful piece about visiting this childhood haunt of his…or at least it was wonderful until a clueless projectionist tried to slough off running a scope movie with a flat lens:
http://sergioleoneifr.blogspot.com/2011/08/once-again-into-lobby-return-visit-to.html