Na'alehu Theatre
95-5659 Mamalahoa Highway,
Na'alehu,
HI
96772
95-5659 Mamalahoa Highway,
Na'alehu,
HI
96772
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This theater was built in 1940 by the Hutchinson Sugar Plantation in Na'alehu, Hawaii. It orginally had 550 seats and serviced a population of 8,000 residents and 10,000 military troops stationed at South Point on the Big Island. The sugar plantation closed in 1996, and with fewer than 3,000 total population, the theater ceased running first run movies and opened in 2003 as a plantation movie theater museum.
We have projection room paraphanalia, photos, a minature movie theater collection, and a Donald Duck collection on display and give guided tours of the projection room. We accept donations , have a guest sign-in book, and a pamplet about the theater and the surrounding Ka'u area.
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Joe Demoruelle
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When I last saw the Na'alehu it must have been before the renovation because the theatre front did not have the gaudy colors that is there today.
This building does have a little too much color but on the other hand, if your trying to draw attention to the theater then its perfect.
This is a recent photo of the Na'alehu Theater and here is another.
Here is another recent photo of the Na'alehu Theater.
News of its recent troubles can be found here in this Saturday, June 30, 2007 article from the Hawaii Tribune-Herald: View link
There is a photo on this real estate site:
http://activerain.com/patrickjlambert
This is a 2009 photo. It doesn’t look like the building is being used for anything.
Another sad 2009 photo of the Na'alehu Theatre/Museum.
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More 2009 photos of the Na;alehu Theatre.
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Looks like the roof fell in and flooded the place. A local main street organization is applying for a lease from the Weinberg Foundation, but they don’t have much money or support. Local contractor estimates repairs at $150,000.