Blues Bouquet
1010 W. Main Street,
Boise,
ID
83702
1010 W. Main Street,
Boise,
ID
83702
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In the 1940’s and 1950’s the Blues Bouquet was known as the Granada Theatre and played second-run A movies or first-run B movies and as television began to take hold they would have dish night or some type of give-away to attract customers. Local history resources say that the Granada Theatre, which was built around 1906, was once named the Boz and then the Strand and at one time it had a hotel and bordello upstairs but all of this is beyond my years of expertise. Other downtown theatres around this time were the Boise, the Rialto and Rio, which sat side by side, and the Ada (Egyptian) and Pinney, Boise’s premiere houses.
Since the late 1970’s, the building has been home to the Blues Bouquet, which has been called the best place to hear live musical performances in Boise. Passing the building, you would never know that it once was a theater, as the marquee has been removed, but the original lobby tile and other clues such as its closed balcony remain inside.
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Ron Pierce
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The club is still going, although the related link no longer works.
http://tinyurl.com/47da3c
Still going? Temporarily Closed That is probably the reason that the website isn’t working. And the address is 1010 West Main Street.
This is from Boxoffice magazine in December 1951:
BOISE-The Granada Theatre has reopened with a new policy and Roger Mendenhall, owner of the Granada and Pinney theatres, announced the appointment of Jack Rhodes as manager. He will be assisted by Bob Wilson. Rhodes managed the Natatorium last summer with the assistance of Wilson. The Granada was closed during the summer for renovation but is now operating daily.
They didn’t give the name of the usher?
There was a Boz Theatre in Boise, so the local source saying that this house once had that name could be true. A history of Idaho published in 1914 said that W. Fred Bossner arrived in Boise in 1909 and began operating his first Boz Theatre.
In 1910 he opened the New Boz Theatre, which was exclusively a movie house and considered the leading such enterprise in the state. No address is given, so I can’t be sure it was the same theater that later became the Granada. The only other mention of the New Boz Theatre I’ve found on the Internet is one saying that, in 1911, noted feminist and radical Emma Goldman gave a speech there.
If the theater was also once the Strand then, assuming PSTOS is correct, it was also once called the Majestic.