Boise Theatre
913 W. Main Street,
Boise,
ID
83702
913 W. Main Street,
Boise,
ID
83702
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Closed August 14th, 1973.
Photo as Lyric Theatre added, and below additional history credit Bob Hartman.
“The Lyric Theater at 913 Main Street had a little bit of history to it before 1926. Form Jewelry store, wallpaper store, tailor shop, hardware store, saloon to theater to cafe' with rooms for rent and gambling upstairs, and for a while, a bowling alley in the basement. In the fall of 1925 Marge Armstrong received a building permit to convert the building into a theater again, with a balcony. The Boise Theater opened in 1926, and fell to the wrecking ball of the BRA during the destruction of downtown Boise in the 1970’s.”
Opened as Lyric on March 28th, 1931, and reopened as the Boise theatre on April 27th, 1940.
Interior picture
Boise theatre opening picture 27 Apr 1940, Sat The Idaho Statesman (Boise, Idaho) Newspapers.com
Three images added via Robert D. Austin Jr.
wouldn’t you like to have that “MASTER OF THE WORLD” one-sheet.Thanks Ken Mc.
Here is a July 1961 photo:
http://tinyurl.com/au4bf6