From our files: New theater under construction in 1950

100 years ago,

March 14, 1925

The Cowley Progress

Dignified simplicity distinguished the inauguration of Calvin Coolidge as the 30th President of the United States. The ceremony was devoid of the demonstrations of party triumph that have marked many of its predecessors, and the display, in parade and inaugural ball, was cut to the minimum. No less dignified and simple was the President’s inaugural address. Standing in a white Corinthian portico in front of the Capitol in bright sunlight, he took the oath of office administered by Chief Justice Taft, kissed the old Bible his grandmother gave him in his boyhood and at once began a talk that was replete with hard common sense and straightforward American statesmanship.

Not surprisingly, Charles Gates Dawes was the man who supplied the only sensational incident of the day. His inauguration as vice president took place immediately before the induction of the President, and he seized the opportunity to deliver a lecture to the Senate that fairly took away the breath of the august members of the upper house.

75 years ago,

March 16, 1950

The Lovell Chronicle

The first major construction in Lovell this year was begun on Tuesday when ground was broken for the new Armada Theatre. H.D. Bischoff, manager of the theater, stated that the construction of a new modern moving picture house would involve an expenditure in excess of $100,000. The building is being constructed on the north side of Main Street directly across from the Armada Theatre, which has served local fans since movies were first brought to town. The original building was constructed by N.D. Bischoff, father of H.D. Bischoff, and was later remodeled into a sound theater with excellent acoustics. 

Providing mercantile space at the front of the building, the new theater will have a sloping floor with alternate seating to make for the best possible view from every seat in the house. Seating will be in excess of 900 people and 50 feet wide and 170 feet long.

50 years ago,

March 13, 1975

The Lovell Chronicle

A Sunday snowmobile trip to Bear Lodge nearly ended in tragedy for a Lovell man. Bud Harrison, an employee of the Wyoming Game and Fish, was found four miles from where his machine had run out of gas by members of the North Big Horn Search and Rescue team after  an all night search. 

The heavy fog must have saved Harrison’s life. The cloud cover kept the temperature around 30 degrees, and (Wayne) Spragg said a more severe temperature may have cost Harrison his life. Spragg said Harrison was trying to follow a snowmobile track but kept losing it in the dark and fog and was forced to wade through snow up to four feet deep.

25 years ago,

March 16, 2000

The Lovell Chronicle

The Lovell School Board accepted one resignation at Monday’s meeting, and three persons were hired. Ina Hubbell has resigned as an assistant track coach, and Bruce Jolley was hired as a paid assistant to take her place. Meredith Despain was hired as the new school nurse, replacing Jody McClure, and Tim Harris was hired as an activity and substitute bus driver.

10 years ago,

March 12, 2015

The Lovell Chronicle

A wild sheep gather that started at dawn literally plucked 25 bighorn sheep from the Devil’s Canyon herd and transported them by helicopter to a nearby staging area, where they were prepped for a long journey across the state to join another herd in the Seminoe Mountains of Wyoming. By noon each sheep had been examined, collared, tagged, DNA profiled, checked for diseases, vaccinated, treated for parasites and loaded into an appropriately labeled “Ewe Haul” trailer before being transplanted to the southeastern part of the state where they joined a compatible herd of sheep in need of a genetic infusion.