{"id":1816,"date":"2010-03-24T07:28:13","date_gmt":"2010-03-24T07:28:13","guid":{"rendered":"\/yorktownsquare\/2010\/03\/24\/strand-capitol-performing-arts\/"},"modified":"2013-10-10T20:40:30","modified_gmt":"2013-10-11T00:40:30","slug":"strand-capitol-performing-arts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yorkblog.com\/yorktownsquare\/strand-capitol-performing-arts\/","title":{"rendered":"York, Pa.’s, Strand and Capitol theaters have played host to silent movies and loud applause"},"content":{"rendered":"

At the Strand<\/strong>
\n<\/strong>
\nRestoration contractors worked under the curved canopy at York, Pa.’s Strand-Capitol Performing Arts Center as part of a 2003 renovation. (See photo below of completed renovation.) A 30th-anniversary celebration is planned in April to recognize a previous renovation of the complex. Also of interest: Ella Fitzgerald’s Strand-Capitol show was ‘memorable, not Memorex’<\/a> and Hanover’s old State Theater: ‘Don’t lose hope, it’s not dead’<\/a> and Stewartstown’s Ramsay Theatre: ‘It is really in bad shape’<\/a>.<\/strong>
\nWhen businesses have been around for 75 to 100 years, they’re going to have a litany of openings and closings, re-openings and re-grand openings.
\nSuch are the cases of North George Street’s Strand and Capitol theaters, now merged into the Strand-Capitol Performing Arts Center.<\/p>\n

To help in the understanding of the ups and downs of those grand buildings ups over the years, here’s a 2003 chronology published in the York Daily Record\/Sunday News – on the advent the last renovation and re-opening:<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

A reader submitted this photo of the Strand-Capitol Performing Arts Center as seen in 2008.<\/strong>
\n1906<\/strong>
\n– A one-level dance hall and opera house known as the Theatorium is built on the corner of North George and Philadelphia streets. Later, this building would be known as the Capitol Theatre.
\n1917<\/strong>
\nThe theater, since renamed The Jackson<\/a>, is remodeled to show films and fitted with a balcony.
\n1925<\/strong>
\nAug. 27: The Strand Theatre opens as a theater and silent film house.
\n1926<\/strong>
\nThe Jackson, purchased by Nathan and Louis Appell, is renamed the Capitol and reopens after more renovations.
\n1976<\/strong>
\nAug. 27: RKO-Stanley Warner closes the Strand. York Mayor John Krout <\/a>is urged to consider building a performing arts center, and Krout, Susquehanna Pfaltzgraff owner<\/a> Louis Appell Jr.<\/a> and city economic development director Jack Kay approach RKO-Stanley Warner about purchasing the Strand. Both the Strand and Capitol are put up for sale.
\n1977<\/strong>
\nThe Capitol, which was showing X-rated films and other flicks, closes for renovations.
\n1979 Summer: Renovation begins on both the Strand and Capitol.
\n1980<\/strong>
\nApril 12: The 1,214-seat Strand reopens, with jazz legend Ella Fitzgerald and the York Symphony Pops Orchestra <\/a>on the bill.
\n1981<\/strong>
\nMay: The 701-seat Capitol reopens with the movie “Can-Can.”
\n1995<\/strong>
\nApril 18: Blues legend B.B. King performs two shows at the Strand.
\n1999<\/strong>
\nMay 12: Country great Willie Nelson rolls through more than three dozen songs – including “Crazy” and “Blue Eyes Cryin’ In The Rain” – during a rollicking show at the Strand. A power outage halts the show for 15 seconds, but Willie and his unfazed band pick right up where they left off when the power comes back on.
\n2000<\/strong>
\nApril 2: Comedian George Carlin performs two shows at the Strand.
\n2001<\/strong>
\nFeb. 7: Gov. Tom Ridge comes to York and announces Pennsylvania will release $4 million in state funds for the Strand-Capitol renovation project.
\nJuly: The Strand closes for its second major renovation and restoration.
\nAug. 24: Crews break ground on the “Setting The Stage” renovation and restoration project.
\n2003<\/strong>
\nAug. 27: The Strand celebrates the 78th anniversary of its grand opening in York.
\nSept. 13: Scheduled grand re-opening of the newly restored, $17.3 million Strand-Capitol Performing Arts Center. Source: The Strand-Capitol Performing Arts Center.
\n2010<\/strong>
\nStrand-Capitol plans “Ella-bration,” with Freda Payne performing to celebrate 30th anniversary of the 1980 renovation.<\/p>\n

Also of interest: <\/strong>
\nAll Strand-Capitol-related posts from the start.<\/a>
\nAll York Town Square posts from the start.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Top photo courtesy of York Daily Record\/Sunday News<\/em><\/p>\n

*Edited, 9\/29\/11<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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