Silver Theatre
17 S. Broadway Street,
Lake Orion,
MI
48362
17 S. Broadway Street,
Lake Orion,
MI
48362
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Opened as the Vaudeville Theatre (date unknown). By 1932 it was operating as the 260-seat Silver Theatre. It was still open in 1934, but had closed by 1935. Now Elvira’s High Fashions wedding shop
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I don’t see this house (or any other theater in Lake Orion) listed in the 1926 or 1929 Film Daily Year Books. It isn’t in the 1914-1915 American Motion Picture Directory either. It might have had a fairly short life. A July 9, 1938 Boxofficeitem noted the recent opening of the 350-seat Lake Theatre in a remodeled store building, and added “[t]his will be the first theatre Orion has had in several years.”
The Lincoln Theatre was built in 1913 by Albert Ostrum in 1913 for J. Bartholomew who owned an auto dealership. At the time Broadway was known as Main Street. Many sources, and now Cinema Treasures, refer to it as the Vaudeville Theatre because of the sign advertising vaudeville which appears in the picture (circa 1915) which I have uploaded. In addition to vaudeville films were shown.
Bartholomew’s ownership was short lived when he decided to devote all his efforts to his automobile dealership. See the For Sale ad photo which I’ve also uploaded.
At some point it became the Silver Theatre.
The Lake Orion Review had an article that a new shopping complex would include a 650 seat twin theatre that would open in 1973. That never materialized. I’ve uploaded a photo of that article.