Algonac Theatre
1117 St. Clair River Drive,
Algonac,
MI
48001
1117 St. Clair River Drive,
Algonac,
MI
48001
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Previous Names: Classic Theatre
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The Classic Theatre opened in 1914, seating 400, at the corner of Front and Fruit Streets. It initially hosted vaudeville, but later began showing silent films as well. Around the 1930’s, the theatre was renamed the Algonac Theatre, and operated through the 1950’s.
A neighboring bowling alley acquired the theatre after it closed, and converted it into additional lanes. In the 1960’s, both the original bowling alley and the former Algonac Theatre were destroyed by a blaze and afterward were torn down. A bank acquired both properties for expansion.
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Bill Schulte owned and operated the Algonac in 1960, along with the Mariner in Marine City, according to a report in Boxoffice magazine at that time.
From the late 1950s a photo postcard view of Front Street along with the Algonac Theatre in Algonac.
Between the 1930s and 1950s my grandfather Albert S. “Al” Johnson built or remodeled at least sixty-four theater and drive-in jobs in Michigan. Family records show that the Algonac Theatre was one of these, but the project date was not recorded.
Al took this slide of the theater in June 1948. Because he didn’t begin photographing his projects until 1948, the date of the Johnson Construction Company job is unknown. In this image, the entrance doors and the finish of the front and side of the theater are of a style very similar to other Johnson remodeling jobs completed in the mid to late-1930s.