Alpine Theatre

Kanawha Avenue,
Rainelle, WV 25962

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Previously operated by: Alpine Theater Circuit

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ALPINE Theatre; Rainelle, West Virginia.

The Alpine Theatre was open as early as 1939. Seating was listed at 670 seats. It was initially operated by Alpine Theatres out of Kingwood, WV. followed by the JUR Circuit. The theatre closed in the early-1960’s.

Any additional information on the Alpine Theatre would be appreciated.

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MichaelKilgore
MichaelKilgore on January 1, 2023 at 1:49 am

There’s a fairly lengthy story about the Alpine in “East Rainelle” that ran in the April 18, 1960 issue of Boxoffice, found on Yumpu. To summarize:

Frank L. Weitzel bought the Alpine on March 1, 1960. Soon after, the town was snowed in for a week. In early April, warm weather brought a flood that “inundated the 512-seat house” so that only about 100 chairs were dry enough to be used. Weitzel reopened anyway on the weekend of April 10, running the boiler night and day to try to dry out the place. He soon bought dry seats from closed theaters in Gowen (?) and Gassaway (also called the Alpine), because the damp seats were creating an unpleasant “smell-o-vision” experience.

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