Theatre

Joe Vogel on March 5, 2024 at 5:15 pm

This house might have been called either the Grand, the Lyric, or the Palace. In June, 1922, several issues of Moving Picture World ran capsule movie reviews submitted by R. Mason Hall of the Grand Theatre, Northfork, West Virginia. Another such review, from the issue of May 12, 1923, gives the seating capacity of the Grand as 300. The Grand is listed in the 1926 FDY, along with houses called the Lyric and the Palace. It was the last listing for the Grand. The Palace was last listed in 1928, and the Lyric in 1929, when the new Freeman Theatre first appeared.

The 1922 references to the Grand are the only mentions of any early Northfork houses I’ve found in the trade journals, and the only mention of the Star I’ve found is in the 1914-1915 American Motion Picture Directory, in which it is the only house listed at Northfork.