Joe Vogel, That is what I am suspecting. Thank you for your input. I have some more photos to attach to this page for the Liberty Theater. I would like to watermark them first though. it definitely is a fascinating place.
Joe Vogel, I found Henry Thomas' obit in the January edition of the Motion Picture Herald. Is there another? Or is that the same one you found? What interesting information you gave me. Henry Thomas was a first cousin to my Grandfather.I know there was an earlier theater located above the old department store here in town. It was on the second floor. So perhaps Henry Thomas ran it before the Liberty was built in 1919. There was not much left of the theater from the 1929 fire. The front was completely gone. some of the walls were left standing. But, Alas, there are no original pictures of the 1919 building or none we have come across. We are currently in talks of restoring, preserving the old theater and making it a community center/museum. Thanks for your information.
The Liberty Theater was built by Henry Thomas and Richard Davis. The first theater building burnt in June 1929, it was rebuilt and reopened on Christmas Day, 1929.
Joe Vogel, That is what I am suspecting. Thank you for your input. I have some more photos to attach to this page for the Liberty Theater. I would like to watermark them first though. it definitely is a fascinating place.
Joe Vogel, I found Henry Thomas' obit in the January edition of the Motion Picture Herald. Is there another? Or is that the same one you found? What interesting information you gave me. Henry Thomas was a first cousin to my Grandfather.I know there was an earlier theater located above the old department store here in town. It was on the second floor. So perhaps Henry Thomas ran it before the Liberty was built in 1919. There was not much left of the theater from the 1929 fire. The front was completely gone. some of the walls were left standing. But, Alas, there are no original pictures of the 1919 building or none we have come across. We are currently in talks of restoring, preserving the old theater and making it a community center/museum. Thanks for your information.
The Liberty Theater was built by Henry Thomas and Richard Davis. The first theater building burnt in June 1929, it was rebuilt and reopened on Christmas Day, 1929.