Nugget Theaters
57 S. Main Street,
Hanover,
NH
03755
57 S. Main Street,
Hanover,
NH
03755
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Actual opening date is September 24, 1951.
2 screens on September 22nd, 1972 and 4 screens on May 25th, 1997. Grand opening ads posted.
Correction to the previous post by Nuggeteer; The Nugget Arcade (not the Nugget Theater) was constructed in 1970.
The Nugget was designed by architect Frank J. Barrett and completed in 1970.
See the article by Frank J. Barrett, Jr., in Constructive Images (Fall 2005), available at View link
Saw James Stewart and Kim Novak in Alfred Hackneydplot’s “Vertigo” there while taking a summer course at Dartmouth Medical School in 1984. Don’t remember much about the theater, but there was a restaurant not far away that had 50 different kinds of pizza in the evenings and 50 different kinds of omelettes in the mornings. A true entrepreneurial inspiration…
The 1950 edition of Film Daily Yearbook listed the Nugget Theater on Main Street with a seating capacity given as 710.
The seating capacity for the original Nugget Theater is listed as 520 in the 1941 and 1943 editions of F.D.Y.
Author Bill Bryson mentions this theater in his book “I’m A Stranger Here Myself”. Upon returning to the US after 20 years in the UK, Bryson settled in Hanover because it had a main street complete with a bank, a library, a bookstore, a cafe and an old theater. I like this man’s outlook on life.