Blues Bouquet

Joe Vogel on October 14, 2010 at 2:54 am

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.

kencmcintyre on July 12, 2009 at 1:07 pm

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.

kencmcintyre on September 22, 2008 at 10:44 am

The club is still going, although the related link no longer works.
http://tinyurl.com/47da3c