M & R Theatre
331 S. Redwood Highway,
Cave Junction,
OR
97523
331 S. Redwood Highway,
Cave Junction,
OR
97523
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The M & R Theatre was opened in 1947. Located on S. Redwood Highway (US 199) near the corner of Caves Highway. It was built for and operated by W.B. Roberts. The facade was in a locally manufactured pumice tile.
The building still stands in 2010, possibly in use as a workshop.
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Ken Roe
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Any info or photos?
Why is it called a QUONSET Hut?
They were “invented” at the Davisville Naval Construction Battalion (=C.B.=Seabees get it?) Center, at QUONSET Point, Rhode Island. I landed and took off from the now closed U.S. Naval Air Station Quonset Point (now called Quonset State Airport).
Well, this Oregon Drive-in parked 300 cars as stated above in 1956 W.B.Roberts was running the place.
I can’t confirm the M&R theater statistics just yet. But there was an indoor theater named the Ivy at 297 Redwood Hwy., in town and is a quonset hut. I believe it closed around 1999 when the owner decided to focus on his other business ventures. It has been been Bi-Rite Auto parts for some time now and is under new ownership.
This theater was the replacement of two movie theaters that were named Cave City Theatre. After the first Cave City Theatre was destroyed by a fire on October 11, 1946, a backup movie theater opened nearby with the same name. While the backup was still in operation, the M&R (Musil and Roberts) Theater company constructed the quonset hut theater with an estimate $35,000, opening as the “? Theatre” on June 14, 1947 with Rosalind Russell in “Sister Kenny” along with an unnamed Popeye cartoon and a newsreel.
Throughout the first three months of operation, it was named the “? Theatre” because the M&R chain didn’t give out a name for the theater. It wasn’t until September 29, 1947 when a special theater-naming contest award announcement was held after a screening of “Home Sweet Homicide”, and the theater was immediately renamed the Ivy Theatre after the ceremony.