The city of Duluth deal fell through and the Norshor Theatre remains in private hands. A series of lessees in the past few years have come and gone. Theatre continues to operate in fits and starts. The old Orpheum and the Norshor are the same building. The Orpheum was retrofitted so to speak, with the entrance moved, and the auditorium was flipped around in the opposition direction (stage to back of theatre). The new Norshor opened inside the shell of the old Orpheum in October 1941. As for the 1960s playdates of the Granada and Norshor, I have a lot of that information but not in a user friendly format that just focuses on those two theatres. Your best bet is to simply go through microfilms of the newspapers at the library.
The city of Duluth deal fell through and the Norshor Theatre remains in private hands. A series of lessees in the past few years have come and gone. Theatre continues to operate in fits and starts. The old Orpheum and the Norshor are the same building. The Orpheum was retrofitted so to speak, with the entrance moved, and the auditorium was flipped around in the opposition direction (stage to back of theatre). The new Norshor opened inside the shell of the old Orpheum in October 1941. As for the 1960s playdates of the Granada and Norshor, I have a lot of that information but not in a user friendly format that just focuses on those two theatres. Your best bet is to simply go through microfilms of the newspapers at the library.