M & R Theatre
331 S. Redwood Highway,
Cave Junction,
OR
97523
331 S. Redwood Highway,
Cave Junction,
OR
97523
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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.
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.
Well, this Oregon Drive-in parked 300 cars as stated above in 1956 W.B.Roberts was running the place.
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).