Laura Theater
Montoursville,
PA
17754
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Google maps is currently showing an image that the building is broken up into thirds.
tHAIRapy on Broad, then the Smith’s Jewelers, and Calm Creek Wellness are the stores.
There is a large gold coloured SMITH’S LTD on the wall above them all , given it’s placement it is plausable that it would have been where the marquee was.
Please update address and function per robboehm’s comment above.
Now the home of Smith’s Jewelers. Address is 344 Broad Street. Photo uploaded before street was renamed.
650 seats.
The Laura Theatre opened on April 18, 1947 with Robert Mitchum in “Pursued” along with an unnamed cartoon, sports reel, and a newsreel, with a capacity of 650.
Before ending its regular theater run, ABC Theaters of Pennsylvania operated the theater until the mid-1970s. That ultimately changed when the Laura Theater flipped to an XXX theater for no longer than three years. The Laura Theatre closed in 1979 and it reopened in 1980 as a live performance house ending in 1984.
The Laura Theatre was built before the Angela Theatre in Coaldale by Peter Magazzu Sr. I was told they used the same plans to build the Angela in Coaldale. I ran a matinee there in 1962. “Journey to the Center of the Earth” Pete Magazzu brought me there in his old Pontiac. Same RCA projection equip. as the Angela…
Actually the building is still standing and being used for commercial purposes. It operated as a movie house into the 1970’s it’s last years as an XXX rated facility.