Sorry… a little late to the game on this. Cinema Tour says 1947 as the opening year… that is wrong. My great-grandfather Peter was the original owner of the Joylan, he built it and ran it until he passed… it opened in 1949. In 1947 he purchased the other Joylan in Springville, as the other one was built. After he passed, my great aunt took it over with her husband, Al. My grandfather was the one that was to take it over, but he passed it to her as she and her husband worked there more than him and understood the business better. As Al got too old, as he was running the projector 6 nights a week, with my grandfather running it the 7th, they sold it out of the family.
Sorry… a little late to the game on this. Cinema Tour says 1947 as the opening year… that is wrong. My great-grandfather Peter was the original owner of the Joylan, he built it and ran it until he passed… it opened in 1949. In 1947 he purchased the other Joylan in Springville, as the other one was built. After he passed, my great aunt took it over with her husband, Al. My grandfather was the one that was to take it over, but he passed it to her as she and her husband worked there more than him and understood the business better. As Al got too old, as he was running the projector 6 nights a week, with my grandfather running it the 7th, they sold it out of the family.