Joyo Theatre
6121 Havelock Avenue,
Lincoln,
NE
68507
6121 Havelock Avenue,
Lincoln,
NE
68507
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Located in the Havelock district to the north-east of Lincoln. This Joy-O Theatre opened on June 4, 1912. In January 1936 the New Lyric Theatre across the Avenue was re-named Joyo Theatre (which has its own page on Cinema Treasures), and this Joyo Theatre was closed on January 18, 1937 with Bette Davis in “Satan Met a Lady”.
By 2019 it houses a tanning and hair salon named Northern Exposure.
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Ron Pierce: I see that 1329 O Street is in ‘Downton’, Lincoln with Zip Code 68508. This Joyo Theatre is in the Havelock district to the northeast of Lincoln. In the Film Daily Yearbooks 1920’s and 1930’s, Havelock is listed as a seperate town.
W.J. Vallery opened this O Street theatre namelessly on June 4, 1912 with a naming contest, motion pictures, and Webster’s Orchestra furnishing the music. Frank McCoy was the lucky naming contest winner earning $5 for the clever Joy-O or Joy Theatre on O Street while second place winner Stanley Webster suggested the Evergood Theatre receiving $2. The theatre would lose the hyphen over time going by Joyo Theatre and The Joyo. The only other dedicated Havelock movie theatre was the Happy Hour Theatre on N Street. But there was no more joy when the Happy Hour Theatre closed just prior to Christmas on 1912 after just under two years of operation.
Roy Headrick took on the Joyo and would buy out the Jewell Theatre in 1926 which had launched on June 4, 1923. Charles Clarence “C.C” / “Slim” Frasier purchased the theatre in 1926 and would move the venue across the street to the 1928-built Lyric Theatre. He would give the Joyo one last overhaul including improved ventilation and Largen sound in 1936. Slim Frasier closed the Joyo on January 18, 1937 following showings of Bette Davis in “Satan Met a Lady” supported by a cartoon and an oddity.
He then transitioned the theatre across the street relaunching at the new Joyo Theatre on January 20, 1937 with “Three Cheers for Love.” Frasier would go on to add widescreen there to present CinemaScope titles beginning on February 12, 1954.