The Pine-Aire opened its gates during the 1955 season, although I cannot find its grand opening date. Its name came from a theater-naming contest that occurred in June of that same year. It was still open in the 1980s.
The Bay Theatre opened its doors on February 12, 1946 with Fred MacMurray in “Pardon My Past” along with a few unnamed short subjects, and on its grand opening day, a special showing of Arthur Huey of Leelanau Schools screening his colored home movies on “Sugar Loaf and his Winter Activities” was presented before its first showing.
As of 2025, the Bay Theatre shows a mix of first-run films, classic films, independent films, and foreign films.
The Bay Drive-In opened its gates on July 16, 1959 with Aldo Ray in “The Naked And The Dead” and Walt Disney’s “White Wilderness” (unknown if extras added), and was first owned by the husband-and-wife team of Mr. and Mrs. Norman VanWormer.
The Strand Theatre opened its doors on December 20, 1922 with Irene Rich in “Brawn Of The North” and Lloyd Hamilton in “Robinson Crusoe” with no extras.
Opened with Shelly Winters in “Untamed Frontier” along with the technicolor featurette “No Pets Allowed” (based from Roderick Lull’s Saturday Evening Post story), the Little Rascals classic “Free Eats”, an unnamed Tom And Jerry cartoon, and an unnamed Mighty Mouse Terrytoon.
I really want someone to find out if an older Columbia Theatre existed before the newer one nearby. It might be under a different name beforehand, but we don’t know yet for sure.
The Lake Theatre NEVER closed in 1964. The Lake Theatre continued to operate into the latter half of the 1960s, but it either continued operating without advertising or closed around the time the new Gateway Theatre (formerly the Columbia Theatre) opened nearby in January 1967. The Lake Theatre was already still operating in both 1965 and 1966, and the Lake Theatre was already closed in 1968.
I cannot find any details of this being the original Columbia Theatre. However, during the latter half of the 1930s, only the DeSoto and the Grand were the only movie theaters in Lake City. A newer Columbia Theatre opened at the same site as the later-known Gateway Theatre in 1946.
CORRECTION: I was 100% wrong. After a few months of investigating its history, I finally found out that the Gateway Theatre was first known as the Columbia Theatre, and definitely not the Lake Theatre.
This is the exact Columbia Theatre that opened in 1946 as part of the Robert Cannon Theatres chain, the same chain that owned the Lake Theatre nearby, before being rebuilt for four to six weeks after Thanksgiving 1966. The Columbia Theatre officially reopened as the Gateway Theatre on January 5, 1967 with Walt Disney’s “LT. Robin Crusoe, U.S.N.” and the Gateway operated as a 500-seat first-run theater until its closure in 1980. The Gateway then sat abandoned for more than a decade.
This was NEVER known as the Lake Theatre, and this did NOT open in 1930. There are two theaters in Lake City during the 1920s, 1930s, and early 1940s, which were the Desoto Theatre (opened in Spring 1927) and the Grand Theatre (opened in the 1910s), and both theaters were operated by Martin Theatres during its later years.
There was a photo taken in 1946 that was found by Lake City archives that featured its original Columbia marquee that resembles the exact similar building style and the “Theatre” part of the marquee. Unfortunately, the Columbia Theatre was never advertised on any Lake City newspapers several years after World War II for unknown reasons.
During its days as the Silver Wheel Theatre, it continued to screen first-run movies for the most part, with its famous old-fashioned melodramas on both Fridays and Saturdays.
On December 1, 1973, the Silver Wheel Theatre was renamed the Park City Opera House as a dedication to the original Park City Opera House that got destroyed in the Great Park City Fire in 1898. It continued to show first-run films and melodramas for the most part, but they also added both classic movies and a very small amount of foreign films in its lineup.
Unfortunately what’s strange about the Park Record archives is that they never listed any showtimes during its days as the Silver Wheel. However, the Park Record archives did managed to pick up several amount of monthly showtimes as the Park City Opera House though but not all of it.
This is the exact 250-car drive-in that started life as the Macks Drive-In in as early as 1949 that would later become the Mack’s West Drive-In. It was renamed the Double D Drive-In in May 1973 and likely closed in 1986. Unfortunately I don’t know why they named the drive-in “Double D” despite being a first-run and family-oriented drive-in.
As for the Mack’s East, I cannot find any information about it. The Mack’s East is most likely short-lived, but I hope someone can help me out here.
Martin Theatres operated the Ritz until 1972. It continued to operate until its closure in the late-1970s (likely around 1978 when the Marianna Twin Cinemas opened nearby).
Herald Enterprises was the direct manager of the Kyoto Asahi Cinema, who also operated two theaters in Tokyo and two others in Osaka. Around 50 films are screened each year, with annual attendance consistently exceeding 100,000, and membership numbers have remained stable at around 3,000.
The Asahi’s run of the 2001 French film “Amelie” set a record for attendance at the theater which surpassed an older 1999 record for its run of the 1997 Italian film “Life Is Beautiful”.
On December 4, 2004, just about two years after the closure of Kyoto Asahi Cinema, a newer theater named the Kyoto Cinema opened in the COCON KARASUMA commercial complex in Shijo Karasuma.
The Myers Theatre, named after owner Charles E. Myers in a theater-naming contest, opened its doors on June 2, 1939 with W.C. Fields in “You Can’t Cheat An Honest Man” (unknown if extras added), featuring RCA sound installations.
It was renamed the Nash Theatre on April 1, 1949, and closed on January 15, 1961 with Anthony Quinn in “Psycho”.
The Pine-Aire opened its gates during the 1955 season, although I cannot find its grand opening date. Its name came from a theater-naming contest that occurred in June of that same year. It was still open in the 1980s.
Actual opening date is July 3, 1948.
Opened on Thanksgiving Day 1934, and closed in mid-1958.
The Bay Theatre opened its doors on February 12, 1946 with Fred MacMurray in “Pardon My Past” along with a few unnamed short subjects, and on its grand opening day, a special showing of Arthur Huey of Leelanau Schools screening his colored home movies on “Sugar Loaf and his Winter Activities” was presented before its first showing.
The Bay Drive-In opened its gates on July 16, 1959 with Aldo Ray in “The Naked And The Dead” and Walt Disney’s “White Wilderness” (unknown if extras added), and was first owned by the husband-and-wife team of Mr. and Mrs. Norman VanWormer.
The Strand Theatre opened its doors on December 20, 1922 with Irene Rich in “Brawn Of The North” and Lloyd Hamilton in “Robinson Crusoe” with no extras.
Opened with Fred MacMurray in “Exclusive” (unknown if extras added).
Opened with Henry Fonda in “The Return Of Frank James” along with a solo Hammond organ performance, otherwise unknown if extras added.
Opened on September 18, 1948 with Clark Gable in “Homecoming” (unknown if extras added).
Closed as a first-run theater on September 9, 1982 with “Tron”.
Opened with Rock Hudson in “Has Anybody Seen My Gal” (unknown if extras added).
Opened with Shelly Winters in “Untamed Frontier” along with the technicolor featurette “No Pets Allowed” (based from Roderick Lull’s Saturday Evening Post story), the Little Rascals classic “Free Eats”, an unnamed Tom And Jerry cartoon, and an unnamed Mighty Mouse Terrytoon.
I really want someone to find out if an older Columbia Theatre existed before the newer one nearby. It might be under a different name beforehand, but we don’t know yet for sure.
Closed on June 29, 2000.
The Lake Theatre NEVER closed in 1964. The Lake Theatre continued to operate into the latter half of the 1960s, but it either continued operating without advertising or closed around the time the new Gateway Theatre (formerly the Columbia Theatre) opened nearby in January 1967. The Lake Theatre was already still operating in both 1965 and 1966, and the Lake Theatre was already closed in 1968.
I cannot find any details of this being the original Columbia Theatre. However, during the latter half of the 1930s, only the DeSoto and the Grand were the only movie theaters in Lake City. A newer Columbia Theatre opened at the same site as the later-known Gateway Theatre in 1946.
CORRECTION: I was 100% wrong. After a few months of investigating its history, I finally found out that the Gateway Theatre was first known as the Columbia Theatre, and definitely not the Lake Theatre.
This is the exact Columbia Theatre that opened in 1946 as part of the Robert Cannon Theatres chain, the same chain that owned the Lake Theatre nearby, before being rebuilt for four to six weeks after Thanksgiving 1966. The Columbia Theatre officially reopened as the Gateway Theatre on January 5, 1967 with Walt Disney’s “LT. Robin Crusoe, U.S.N.” and the Gateway operated as a 500-seat first-run theater until its closure in 1980. The Gateway then sat abandoned for more than a decade.
This was NEVER known as the Lake Theatre, and this did NOT open in 1930. There are two theaters in Lake City during the 1920s, 1930s, and early 1940s, which were the Desoto Theatre (opened in Spring 1927) and the Grand Theatre (opened in the 1910s), and both theaters were operated by Martin Theatres during its later years.
Opened either in or around 1978.
During its days as the Silver Wheel Theatre, it continued to screen first-run movies for the most part, with its famous old-fashioned melodramas on both Fridays and Saturdays.
On December 1, 1973, the Silver Wheel Theatre was renamed the Park City Opera House as a dedication to the original Park City Opera House that got destroyed in the Great Park City Fire in 1898. It continued to show first-run films and melodramas for the most part, but they also added both classic movies and a very small amount of foreign films in its lineup.
This is the exact 250-car drive-in that started life as the Macks Drive-In in as early as 1949 that would later become the Mack’s West Drive-In. It was renamed the Double D Drive-In in May 1973 and likely closed in 1986. Unfortunately I don’t know why they named the drive-in “Double D” despite being a first-run and family-oriented drive-in.
As for the Mack’s East, I cannot find any information about it. The Mack’s East is most likely short-lived, but I hope someone can help me out here.
Martin Theatres operated the Ritz until 1972. It continued to operate until its closure in the late-1970s (likely around 1978 when the Marianna Twin Cinemas opened nearby).
The Dewey Theatre likely replaced the first Park City Opera House that got destroyed by the Great Park City Fire in 1898.
Herald Enterprises was the direct manager of the Kyoto Asahi Cinema, who also operated two theaters in Tokyo and two others in Osaka. Around 50 films are screened each year, with annual attendance consistently exceeding 100,000, and membership numbers have remained stable at around 3,000.
The Asahi’s run of the 2001 French film “Amelie” set a record for attendance at the theater which surpassed an older 1999 record for its run of the 1997 Italian film “Life Is Beautiful”.
On December 4, 2004, just about two years after the closure of Kyoto Asahi Cinema, a newer theater named the Kyoto Cinema opened in the COCON KARASUMA commercial complex in Shijo Karasuma.
The Myers Theatre, named after owner Charles E. Myers in a theater-naming contest, opened its doors on June 2, 1939 with W.C. Fields in “You Can’t Cheat An Honest Man” (unknown if extras added), featuring RCA sound installations.
It was renamed the Nash Theatre on April 1, 1949, and closed on January 15, 1961 with Anthony Quinn in “Psycho”.
Opened on May 11, 1957 with Doris Day in “Julie” and Virginia Mayo in “Great Day In The Morning” along with a few unnamed cartoons.