I believe the Bijou went on to become the Lafayette Theatre, which closed in the early 1950s, leaving the Colonial, the Strand and the Paramount as Haverhill’s three movie theaters. The Haverhill Gazette published a photo last year of an elderly Louis B. Mayer, during a visit to Haverhill, looking up at the marquee of the Lafayette, a theater he once owned.
I believe the Bijou went on to become the Lafayette Theatre, which closed in the early 1950s, leaving the Colonial, the Strand and the Paramount as Haverhill’s three movie theaters. The Haverhill Gazette published a photo last year of an elderly Louis B. Mayer, during a visit to Haverhill, looking up at the marquee of the Lafayette, a theater he once owned.