Egyptian Theatre
700 W. Main Street,
Boise,
ID
83702
700 W. Main Street,
Boise,
ID
83702
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A great Egyptian-style theatre that was restored in 2000. The Ada Theatre first opened in 1927 with 1,400 seats.
The theatre occasionally plays movies from the 1920s and 1930s accompanied by a live organist.
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Marlene Mussler-Wright
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Here is an August 2008 photo.
Here is a 1940 photo:
http://tinyurl.com/bloz3v
1984 Photo
1985 Photo
1985 Photo
according to their official website, the Egyptian was restored in 1999.
Ghost Stories on the Travel Station just showed a piece tonight on this theatre. Supposedly it is haunted by a former projectionist named Joe, He hangs out mostly in the projection booth or in the upper balcony last row last seats.
I wonder if he got replaced by an automated ghost.
The Egyptian can be seen in this photo circa 1950s:
http://tinyurl.com/y9sl9x7
There was a great feature of the Egyptian on the Travel Channel last night, showing much of the theater. Supposedly, the place is haunted, and that was the feature.
Bway: I saw the same show on the Travel Channel and found it very fascinating! Supposedly, the ghost’s name is Joe and he died of a heart attack some 50 years ago while walking up the steps to the projection room as he was the resident projectionist then! Paranormal folks came to the theatre and after telling the owners the ghost’s name was Joe they then learned the name of the projectionist….coincidence?
This information is from the Boise Capital News on Sunday April 17, 1927 for the opening night on April 19. The opening attraction was John Barrymore in ‘Don Juan.’ The prices were 75c for loges and a general admission of 50c. The building’s frontage is 93 feet on Main Street and 122 feet on Seventh Street. The front of the building was faced with blocks of Boise sandstone. The auditorium is 80 feet wide by 110 feet long. The 1,400 seats are laid out like this: The lower section had 20 rows of seats. The stadium section had 5 rows of 175 loge seats and 16 rows of opera seats. (My calculations show this would have made it approximately 680 seats in the lower section and 720 seats in the stadium section.) A $25,000 Robert Morgan organ was installed. Dahnken & Co., owners of the American Theatre in Salt Lake, New York and other cities took a 21-year lease on the building.