Marien Theatre
Marienville,
PA
16239
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The Marien Theatre opened in 1941 by H.A. Batastini who was also the owner of the Alpine Theatre in Punxsutawney. The theatre received renovation on September 3, 1948, and was still open in the 1950’s.
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The Marien Theatre was at 106 N. Forest Street, according to comments on a Marienville Facebook page. The building had been a fire station, which is also its current use, so it might be that the theater and the volunteer fire department shared the building, which looks almost as wide as it is deep. Consensus of the comments is that the house closed in the mid-1950s. I’ve found the Marien mentioned twice in Boxoffice. The January 3, 1948 issue said it had been transferred by John L. Barr to A. A. Nuhfer, and the January 19, 1952 issue said it had been sold by Clarence Nuhfer to W. E. Anderson.
The fire department building looks like it did receive a remodel years after the Marien Theatre’s closure, with a few addictions. There’s an adjacent building behind the station as well as an ACA Screamer S-5 siren on top of the main building.