Maco Theater, Virginia, Northern Minnesota
The beautiful Maco Theater in Northern Virginia up on the Iron Range. It's simply beautiful. Neon. Glass brick. Original doors. What more could you want? It was built in 1938 and originally had statues depicting Native-Americans inside. It now houses the Cornerstone Family Church. We were up there last Sunday afternoon and went inside for a look. There were some young guitar hopefuls practicing their thing on the stage. They sounded rather like Low who hail from up the road in Duluth who frequently play the Twin Cities. The doors photographed here are a little to the side of the main entrance.
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Wow - this place is a stunner! What a breathtaking movie palace this is. Thanks for showing it. Feel free to show as many pics of this as you can snap - this is my favorite sort of theater. What a gem!
The doors are quite stunning!
excellent photo - you could really do a book on forgotten places in America!
"Movies" used to be so nice to go to when it showed in theatres like this, with big, fancy lobbies, the 'movie' started with cartoons, (or even news before that, but I don't think I've seen too many of THOSE), and you really had to invest in a big popcorn... I recenlty bought a DVD of My Fair Lady, and it had, can you believe, and intermission!
thanks y'all. It is a cool place. A double bill of My Fair Lady and the Last Picture Show, anyone?
Yeah, any time! I haven't seen The Last Picture Show in .... ages!!
Peter,
your profile won't open for me.
I used to go to church here, the bands that play there are mostly local Christian metal bands, most of them go to church here or have in the past, and man that place has the best noise reduction of anywhere, outside you can't hear the music till your by the doors, but once your inside, nothing is louder
I saw my very first movie at this theater when I was about 4 or 5 years old in the mid '60's. I'll never forget the Native American Indian statues that stood over the emergency exits on either side of the large screen. They had red lights shining up at there faces giving them an ominous look when the lights were down. I continued to see movies at this theater up through early 1980's. I then left MN for a couple of years and when I returned at the end of the decade, I was saddend to see that it was no longer playing movies. I was glad today that it is still standing along with the classic marquee. It looks like it could use some maintenance and hopefully it will get the attention this classic theater deserves.
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