Lyric Arts Main Street Stage
420 E. Main Street,
Anoka,
MN
55303
420 E. Main Street,
Anoka,
MN
55303
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I couldn’t find when the Anoka Theatre opened but it was originally a single screen, and in the late-1970’s it was twinned. It was still showing movies through the 1980’s.
Prior to 2001 the Lyric Arts outgrew the facility they were using, and after renovating the closed Anoka Theatre the new facility opened as the Lyric Arts Main Street Stage in 2001.
They have been doing live performances since, they also have a program for the children.
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1984 photo of the Anoka Theatre.
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Here is a recent photo.
Listed as the Anoka Cinema in 1998 with 424 seats. Operator at that time was Continental Cinema.
Boxoffice of March, 1991, has an item about the reopening of the Anoka twin the previous Christmas. It says: “Built in 1949 and twinned in 1982, it now plays first-run films.”
An item from the December 10, 1949, issue of Boxoffice said the Anoka Theatre was nearing completion. The 1,044-seat house was being built by E.J. Bauhr, who ran a small circuit that also operated the State Theatre in Anoka.
Does anyone familiar with Anoka remember the Anoka Theatre having four screens in its last years? According to A PDF available from the web site of St.Paul architectural firm Vanney Associates, which lists 25 theater projects designed by Robert F. Vanney, one of them was a remodeling of the Anoka Theatre into a four-screen house. No date is given for the project.