Address: West Superior Street
|
City: Wayland
|
State: MI
|
Zip:
|
Phone:
|
|
County: Allegan
|
Notes:
|
View on Google Maps
|
Open:
|
|
Capacity: 411
|
|
Owner: Unknown
|
Number of visits to this page since Sept 2013: 1383
|
11/9/2005 - Beth Bourque
|
This is a photo of the theater from my own youth in Wayland, Michigan. It was situated on West Superior Street. I spent hours and hours and hours waiting on the curb for my parents to pick me up after a movie. This old Art Deco style theater held 411 seats plus another 8 or so in the upstairs crying room. I know that because my grandmother used to be the janitor there and I counted them one Saturday morning when I accompanied her to do her work.
The shows were Wednesday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday evenings and once in a while they had some special Saturday matinee show for kids. In the sixties, a kid with 35 cents could get pay the price of admission and get a box of popcorn. It was the place to be on Friday nights at 7 p. m.
|
|
|
 |
OLD PHOTO COURTESY BETH BOURQUE |
|
|