This theater was in my hometown and is sadly missed to this day. I know the last manager of the theater, Tom Tetrault so I plan to ask him about the theater as it had a bowling alley in the basement though I never saw it. The first movie I saw with my longtime girlfriend was Pillow Talk with Doris Day and Rock Hudson. A local gal makes small wood block area buildings and does the theater with any movie marquee name you wish to have on it so my girlfriend and I each have one. Her theater reads Pillow Talk starring Day and Hudson and mine reads The Long Long Trailer starring Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz. A statue of Abe Lincoln and Grace Bedell now stand where the theater once stood as Grace lived in Westfield NY at the time President Lincoln was in the White House. She wrote him a letter to ask him to grow a beard and he later stopped by train in Westfield enroute to the Nation’s Capitol to meet Ms. Bedell and the rest is history, but all of us still miss the Grand Theater on the corner of Main and N. Portage Streets! :–(
This theater was in my hometown and is sadly missed to this day. I know the last manager of the theater, Tom Tetrault so I plan to ask him about the theater as it had a bowling alley in the basement though I never saw it. The first movie I saw with my longtime girlfriend was Pillow Talk with Doris Day and Rock Hudson. A local gal makes small wood block area buildings and does the theater with any movie marquee name you wish to have on it so my girlfriend and I each have one. Her theater reads Pillow Talk starring Day and Hudson and mine reads The Long Long Trailer starring Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz. A statue of Abe Lincoln and Grace Bedell now stand where the theater once stood as Grace lived in Westfield NY at the time President Lincoln was in the White House. She wrote him a letter to ask him to grow a beard and he later stopped by train in Westfield enroute to the Nation’s Capitol to meet Ms. Bedell and the rest is history, but all of us still miss the Grand Theater on the corner of Main and N. Portage Streets! :–(