Civic Theatre
30 N. Division Street,
Grand Rapids,
MI
49503
30 N. Division Street,
Grand Rapids,
MI
49503
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Working with plans drawn by architect Roger Allen who also did the Isis to Center Theater’s streamline refresh concurrently, the Majestic gets its shocking streamline interior refresh shown here prior to reopening on August 5, 1938.
Closed in 1974 and reopened as a twin cinema by Goodrich Quality theatres on December 17th, 1976. Grand opening ad posted.
Held an reopening on August 5th, 1938. Ad posted.
Reopened as Majestic Gardens on August 28th, 1915. 1903 and 1915 grand opening ads posted.
It was apparently 1915 when the Majestic first made the change from live theater to movies, rather than in the 1930s as some Internet and print sources say. The trade journal The Moving Picture World reported in its issue of August 21, 1915, that the Majestic Theatre in Grand Rapids would open on August 29 with feature pictures. Bert St. Johns, formerly manager of the Toyland Theatre in San Francisco, was to arrive August 22 to assume management of the house. The organist was named Ferdinand Warner.
After viewing President Gerald R. Ford’s State Funeral and the funeral in his hometown I decided to see what theatres were and still are in Grand Rapids. This one and the Wealthy Theatre are very nice.
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