It only ever had one screen. In addition to evening and matinee showings, they sometimes had midnight movies. The no smoking policy was “ashes on the floor, asses out the door”.
Above search will return: a 1931 request by Clarence Dopp to show movies on Sunday. Also 1967 obituary of D. Harlow Calderwood saying he and his brother, W. Harold Calderwood, bought it in 1911 and sold it to Clarence Dopp. I remember a Mr. Calderwood doing magic tricks at the Johnstown Historical Society when I was in Johnstown in 1970 for my great grandfather Lucien Julien’s funeral. (I was ten years old.)
There’s also a 1937 article about Dopp and Jenner building a new theater in Frankfort, adding to those they already owned in Johnstown, Poland, and Northville.
There was also “Smalley’s Theater”. Photo in historian Lewis Decker’s book “Johnstown”:
https://books.google.com/books?id=D22iNDKpFd8C&pg=PA41&lpg=PA41&dq=%22nickel+dump%22+johnstown&source=bl&ots=7kQ9XsaN4z&sig=tAqhIVQsTuS4nqTT_IIJGQzuJ2g&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiHyMzPvN_XAhVP0WMKHZeaCecQ6AEILjAB#v=onepage&q=%22nickel%20dump%22%20johnstown&f=false
Clarence Dopp also owned the “Nickel Dump”. Clarence’s wife Dorothy nee Jenner was a first cousin of my grandmother. Clarence and Dorothy’s daughter Nancy is still alive. I’ll check with her to see if she can add any more info on the theater. My father also remembers the theater.
It only ever had one screen. In addition to evening and matinee showings, they sometimes had midnight movies. The no smoking policy was “ashes on the floor, asses out the door”.
Above search will return: a 1931 request by Clarence Dopp to show movies on Sunday. Also 1967 obituary of D. Harlow Calderwood saying he and his brother, W. Harold Calderwood, bought it in 1911 and sold it to Clarence Dopp. I remember a Mr. Calderwood doing magic tricks at the Johnstown Historical Society when I was in Johnstown in 1970 for my great grandfather Lucien Julien’s funeral. (I was ten years old.) There’s also a 1937 article about Dopp and Jenner building a new theater in Frankfort, adding to those they already owned in Johnstown, Poland, and Northville.
Apparently it was renamed the Strand Theater at some point.
Newspaper stories on the Electric Theater can be found at: http://www.fultonhistory.com/Fulton.html Search “Electric Theater” Johnstown
There was also “Smalley’s Theater”. Photo in historian Lewis Decker’s book “Johnstown”: https://books.google.com/books?id=D22iNDKpFd8C&pg=PA41&lpg=PA41&dq=%22nickel+dump%22+johnstown&source=bl&ots=7kQ9XsaN4z&sig=tAqhIVQsTuS4nqTT_IIJGQzuJ2g&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiHyMzPvN_XAhVP0WMKHZeaCecQ6AEILjAB#v=onepage&q=%22nickel%20dump%22%20johnstown&f=false
Postcard of theater at:
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Clarence Dopp also owned the “Nickel Dump”. Clarence’s wife Dorothy nee Jenner was a first cousin of my grandmother. Clarence and Dorothy’s daughter Nancy is still alive. I’ll check with her to see if she can add any more info on the theater. My father also remembers the theater.