Comments from kencmcintyre

Here is an article from the Ironwood Daily Globe dated 7/8/30:

CHANGE THEATRE PLANS

Officers of Delft Theaters, Inc., said Saturday that for business reasons they have set aside, temporarily, the plans which they announced a few months ago for building new theaters in Marquette and Escanaba. It was stated, also, that specifications had been sent to contractors and bids asked for remodeling the Strand Theater in Escanaba. It is expected that this work will be started by the middle of July.

The Delft Theater in Munising, it was announced, will be redecorated and improved by the installation of Western Electric sound picture equipment, the same as that used in the Delft Theater in Marquette. This equipment will, it is expected, be ready for operation early in August. Rumors current in Marquette for some time that Delft Theaters, Inc., was about to become affiliated with a large chain of theaters and that 11 Delft theaters in the Upper Peninsula would be sold or leased to a chain organization were declared Saturday by Delft officials to be false. No negotiations are pending for a change of ownership of the Delft properties, they said.

Here is a short account of the fire:

3/24/87 Daily News

The Montrose Theater was destroyed by fire early Monday morning in what many longtime residents called a sad end to what had been an important part of the community for more than 60 years. The fire erupted at 4:22 a.m. in the stage area — a remnant of the days when the theater hosted live vaudeville shows as well as motion pictures, said John Orr, a fire investigator with the Glendale Fire Department.

This suit states that the Larchmont closed in November 1952. It’s unclear to me if the theater then re-opened and closed at a later date:
http://tinyurl.com/yxrvh8

I actually asked my wife that when I was taking the picture yesterday. We agreed that it vaguely looked like a theater but that it was probably not the original building.

Here is a January 2007 photo:
http://tinyurl.com/skwoc

Here is a January 2007 photo:
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Here is a January 2007 photo:
http://tinyurl.com/yhgxd5

Right you are. Here is the correct picture:
http://tinyurl.com/ylj9ld

Here is a January 2007 photo of the current business:
http://tinyurl.com/vcxpg

Here is a January 2007 photo:
http://tinyurl.com/y28ayu

Here is the location today:
http://tinyurl.com/vlpbs

Here is the location today:
http://tinyurl.com/yxverb