Woodstock Theatre
76 Tinker Street,
Woodstock,
NY
12498
76 Tinker Street,
Woodstock,
NY
12498
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Its most likely that the Town Hall Theatre was renamed the Woodstock Theatre after the war.
The Woodstock Theatre, then called the Town Hall Theatre, was in operation at least as early as mid-1937. This article from the Woodstock History Center cites an article in the December 24, 1942, Vermont Standard saying that Peter Latchis had run the movie theater in the Town Hall for 5 ½ years. That would take his tenure back to mid-1937.
It doesn’t say if Mr. Latchis was the first operator of the house, so it might have opened even earlier. The 1936 FDY lists a 250-seat house called the Fireman’s Hall at Woodstock, but it was closed. Earlier, according to the History center article, Woodstock had a theater called the Gem, which had occupied a room at the elementary school for at least part of its history. It might also have been the 300-seat house listed in the 1926 FDY as the Community theater.