I’m always apprehensive when I see a NV on the folder. Another gold-rush town ground to dust? Some pioneer village that’s depopulated and spare, making you wonder who stayed, and what their lives are like?

Hmm.

A new facade, you’d think, but is it certain? Those upstairs windows - could this be an old movie theater?

Oh DAMN I’m good. Cinematreasures:

It is listed in the 1945 Film Daily Yearbook as closed, but reopened later, and operated until around 1954. After closing as a movie house, the Lawana Theatre was converted to retail use. For many years, it was home to a bar.

The former Lawana Theatre was acquired in late-2005 by a church. The church also purchased the former Armando’s restaurant next door to the theater building which they converted into a coffee house.

A poor job of modernizing, if that's what you would call it.

The scale of the second floor is off, and it looks as if you'd have to crouch to get through the door to the balcony.

The sidewalk canopy blocks hte light coming through the windows above the main floor windows. The building on the left lost its cornice. It looks like a town inhabited by people who were distinctly less intelligent than the people who built it.

The Grey-Reid Company. Gone but not entirely forgotten. Well, yes, forgotten, but there’s this to remind us.

The original Elks building looks as if it could have been a bank. The new addition was like so many other Elks lodges of the period: modern script sign, blank windowless walls. As if they wanted you to guess what went on in there.

That’s a mess. Without the letters, you'd never guess it was an auto garage.

From every angle, a testament to the grinding power of time.

Ah! Cool 60s modernism. We often see those wings on an old supper club, and while this is an entertainment venue, it seems too big for a supper club.

Repositioned retail, perhaps.

Probably not where you pay your taxes.

The renovations in this town seem dispirited and abandoned mid-job.

“It’s at the corner of 4th street and 1912.”

Nice of them to keep that, I guess.

deet-deet-deetle-deetle-deet-deet-deet-deet circus letters and the word NUGGET means gambling.

You know, I think this could be a movie theater.

DAMN I’m good. (Kidding.)

The New Rex Theatre was opened on December 28, 1920. On September 1, 1930 it was renamed Fallon Theatre. At some priod of time it was modernised. It was twinned in 1978. Great example of classic architecture downtown. Original neon sign still in use.

I don’t know what period of time the rehab occurred, but I’d say late 40s, early 50s.

Again with the half-hearted rehab: the piles of stone are new, since they’re jumbled like that. Means 60s or 70s.

But why is this picture a bit blurry?

Ah

Will you just look at that revelation.

Seiz Shoes. They Make Your . . . what?