{"id":4851,"date":"2014-03-27T17:15:51","date_gmt":"2014-03-27T21:15:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/schellbrothers.com\/blog\/?p=4851"},"modified":"2014-03-27T17:15:51","modified_gmt":"2014-03-27T21:15:51","slug":"milton-motion-milton-theatre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/schellbrothers.com\/blog\/2014\/03\/27\/milton-motion-milton-theatre\/","title":{"rendered":"Milton in Motion: Milton Theatre"},"content":{"rendered":"<h6><a href=\"http:\/\/schellbrothers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/milton_theatre.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4903\" src=\"http:\/\/schellbrothers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/milton_theatre-660x299.png\" alt=\"Milton Theatre 1962\" width=\"660\" height=\"299\" \/><\/a>Photo by: Delaware Public Archives<\/h6>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\"><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">At first glance it looks like a classic theatre that has been locked up for quite some time. The marquee is still alive, occasionally posting information like \u201csave the Milton theatre\u201d. It&#8217;s windows and doors were boarded up, but not to be out done by a \u201cFor Sale\u201d sign in the window collecting dust.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">The Milton Theatre has had its share of ups and downs since it first opened in 1905 and is\u00a0located in the heart of downtown Milton, just\u00a0minutes away from Heritage Creek and Wagamons West Shore. The theatre closed for good in 1962 after a devastating flood. There was even a memorable photo taken of local boys boating down the main street after the storm of &#8217;62 with the marquee featuring the last movie shown, Elvis Presley&#8217;s\u00a0Blue Hawaii.\u00a0 But it&#8217;s still standing, even after experiencing three fires over the years, and is now a\u00a0staple of historic Milton.<\/span><br \/>\nIn its prime it was considered one of the best when it came to projection and acoustics. It seated 434 people and hosted black and white silent movies (youngsters may have to Google that). But before you write off this building as another relic of the past, know there is still big plans for this historic location. The sold sign is gone and there are signs of progress as you look in through the front windows. Now owned by\u00a0Glenn and Lisa Howard, the theatre is being leased to\u00a0Premier Center for the Arts and is set to <a title=\"Milton Theatre to Reopen\" href=\"http:\/\/capegazette.villagesoup.com\/p\/milton-theatre-to-reopen-in-may\/1142881\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">open in May<\/a>.<br \/>\nAfter the theatre reopens and is returned in all its glory we can all enjoy it as Miltonians did years ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo by: Delaware Public Archives &nbsp; At first glance it looks like a classic theatre that has been locked up for quite some time. The marquee is still alive, occasionally posting information like \u201csave the Milton theatre\u201d. It&#8217;s windows and doors were boarded up, but not to be out done by a \u201cFor Sale\u201d sign [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[322,374,375,541,555,557,568,664,762,764,783,811,936,1038,1117,1200,1201,1272],"class_list":["post-4851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-heritage-creek","tag-delaware","tag-downtown","tag-downtown-milton","tag-heritage-creek-2","tag-historic","tag-history","tag-home-builder","tag-kincade","tag-milton-in-motion","tag-milton-theater","tag-movies","tag-new-home","tag-plays","tag-schell-brothers","tag-southern","tag-theater","tag-theatre","tag-wagamons-west-shore"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/schellbrothers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/schellbrothers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/schellbrothers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schellbrothers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schellbrothers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/schellbrothers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4851\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/schellbrothers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schellbrothers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schellbrothers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}