Crown Theater
335 5th Street,
Calumet,
MI
49913
335 5th Street,
Calumet,
MI
49913
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Previous Names: Bijou Theater
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Located on 5th Street near Pine Street. First movie theater in town, also featured vaudeville, opened in the earlier 1900’s, closed November 1910. In 1917 the owner/theatre manager John Vogel was killed in a fire which occurred at the theatre. In August 1917 it had reopened as the 450-seat Crown Theater. By 1929 it was listed with 600-seats. It had closed by 1931, probably as a silent movie theatre. It became a shoe store.
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The Bijou later became the Crown, which has its own page here. Address is 335 5th Street.
The August 18, 1917 issue of Moving Picture World carried this brief notice" “CALUMET, MICH.—The Crown theater has been opened to the public.”
Here is something about the Bijou from the May 25, 1907 MPW: “The Bijou Theater of Calumet contemplates an expansion in the direction in the near future and a modern moving picture show will be fitted up in the Corgan building just opposite the present Bijou.”
From 1908 into the early 1910s, the most commonly mentioned Calumet theaters were the Grand and the Star, but neither of those is listed in the 1914-1915 American Motion Picture Directory. Instead, there are only the Royal Theatre, 305 6th Street, and an Acme Motion Picture, no address given. Nevertheless, the Star was mentioned in the May 6, 1916 MPW. It was to be remodeled and expanded. As the Crown opened in 1917, and was supposed to have been in the old Bijou building, I am wondering if perhaps Star was an aka for the Bijou?