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The modern-day NorShor traces its history back to 1910, when it began as the Orpheum Theatre, located on the former site of the Grand Opera House. [3] It was a Classical Revival-style theatre, and was a premier venue for Vaudeville performances in Duluth. In addition to Vaudeville acts and other performances, the Orpheum was one of Duluth's ...
Pages in category "Cinemas and movie theaters in Minnesota" The following 15 pages are in this category, out of 15 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. C.
Aden, Bob (1989). The Way It Was : A Highly Personal Account of the Old Log Theater's Early Years.Minneapolis: Old Log Theater. Guilfoyle, Peg (2006).
The theater was originally built as a vaudeville/movie theater and opera house in 1912. Architects Franklin Ellerbe, Olin Round and William Sullivan (located in the Palladio Building in Duluth, Minnesota) designed the building in 1911. Virginia businessman Henry Sigel commissioned the architects to design an opera house to be built on the site ...
The downtown area contains a number of historical buildings, many of them dating to the city's peak days in the late 19th century and early 20th. These include the Historic Old Central High School (now the administrative offices of Duluth Public Schools), the NorShor Theatre, and the Duluth Depot (now a museum), among many others. Newly ...
In the late 1990s, the Movies at Miller Hill Mall became a second-run theater, showing films between 6 and 12 months old; tickets cost $2. The entire section was torn down and the space became occupied by Grandma's Restaurants, a local chain of restaurants headquartered in Duluth's Canal Park. [10]
Mann Theatres is a cinema chain in Minnesota with 13 theatres and 86 screens. It was founded in 1935, around the same time that Ted Mann was getting into the business, in St. Paul . This chain was started in 1970 by Marvin Mann, [ 1 ] Ted Mann's brother, through the purchase of Highland and Grandview theaters in St. Paul. [ 2 ] Following Marvin ...
The Ventura Theatre is a historic live concert venue in downtown Ventura, California. This was "the only luxury theatre built in Ventura County in the 1920s in the "style of the great movie palaces." The lavish, elegant interior of gilt and opulence was originally designed by Robert E. Power Studios of San Francisco and has been restored. [3]