Capitol Theatre
415 S. Main Street,
Aberdeen,
SD
57401
415 S. Main Street,
Aberdeen,
SD
57401
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Here is an October 1963 photo from Life magazine:
http://tinyurl.com/mf48an
I thought those photos were all gone by now. LOL
The Capitol theater has been playing films for about 5 years now. They show great movies that the mainstream theaters won’t show. The Capitol hosts the SD Film Festival and a 48 hour film competition called Fischgaard Film Project. It is also the home of Aberdeen Community Theater which puts on plays. The Capitol Theater also hosts several musical concerts throughout the year.
Their old web site is not longer working but you can get the theatres listing on now showing at this web site.
http://www.allaberdeen.net/pages/44/
Previous operators of the Capitol were Publix, Minnesota Amusement, ABC, Plitt and MIDCO.
Here is a 1987 photo:
http://tinyurl.com/yed7yov
From the 1940s a postcard view of the Capitol Theatre in Aberdeen.
From Aberdeen another postcard view of the Capitol Theatre.
The Capitol is now home to the Aberdeen Community Theater and its website is essentially the theater’s website. Films are still shown occasionally along with the ACT’s productions: http://aberdeencommunitytheatre.com/
The Capitol is one of the theaters listed in the finding aid to the Buechner & Orth archives at the University of Minnesota. As the Capitol was built in 1926, it seems unlikely that Charles Buechner, who died in 1924, would have had anything to do with the project.