Gladmer Theatre
223 N. Washington Avenue,
Lansing,
MI
48933
223 N. Washington Avenue,
Lansing,
MI
48933
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The Gladmer Theatre was opened by 1915.
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CWalczak – thanks for explaining what a roadshow was. That was very helpful and I appreciate the time you took to educate me.
Michael Coate – thanks for your mean-spirited response. How was I to know your wonderful article explained the roadshow presentation? Couldn’t you have simply pointed me to it without being insulting? But then, I suppose insults are a way of life on this site.
Second try; if you’re over 60 and around Lansing as a teen, can you help locate the Epicure Restaurant for me. I’m pretty sure it was in the 2nd block of No. Washington, and south of the Gladmer Theater.
Thanks in advance. Bill Lyons
Here are some photos of the former Gladmer Theater.
Does anyone remember the Plaza Theatre in Lansing? It was located about a block south of the Gladmer on N. Washington Street. In the late 40s and 50s it was somewhat rundown and showed mostly B-westerns and serials. —Billy Boy
Plaza Theatre here: http://lostlansing.com/plazatheatre.asp
Bill Lyons, the “Epicure Tea Shop” is listed at 221 N. Washington Ave. in the 1945 through 1966 Lansing City Directories. It may have been listed there before 1945 also, I don’t have those books handy.
1982 picture of the Gladmer after it closed:
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From the early 1940s a postcard view of the Gladmer Theatre in Lansing.
I was raised in the Gladmer theatre practically from birth until 1971 when my father George Hibblen, the projectionist there passed away.He also worked the Michigan downtown when Mr Butterfield needed him.Alot of memories running around in there, backstage, all of the knooks and crannies were explore.The projection booth was pretty cool too.George Hibblen was a great guy!:)Patti
Volume 4 of Charles Moore’s 1915 “History of Michigan” has a biography of architect Fuller Claflin, and names six theaters in Michigan that he designed, the Gladmer among them. This had to have been the remodeling that took place about 1910, as the original architect of Buck’s Opera House (opened May, in 1873) was E.E. Myers. I’ve been unable to discover who was the architect for the late 1930s remodeling.