Program Fall 2017

1909 The Lyric Theatre first opened on the corner of Wilson Avenue and North Main street in downtown Blacksburg.

1928–1930 Work began the new Lyric opened its d 17, 1930. With a seating c The Lyric was a premiere and featured state-of-the- an orchestra pit, and air co fact, it was only the third ci to show sound pictures an building in Blacksburg to b air conditioned.

1910 The theatre moved to a more prominent location on the corner of Main and Jackson streets; the site of the current Wells Fargo Bank Building.

Then

1994–199 citizens lead Merchants o Downtown B together to c which was d Lyric and ret

1920s The Lyric moved to 126 North Main Street, immediately adjacent to what was then the Preston Hotel. Towards the end of the 1920s, the three founders of the Lyric--R. Floyd Plank, Vane E. Kelsey, and R.C. Whitsett--decided that, with the advent of “talkies” they needed to build a major new facility that included a top of the line sound system. Space was acquired within a major commercial and apartment complex that was being planned and constructed on College Avenue.

1940s–1989 The Ly theatre for a time as a t family eventually took management and conti The Lyric as a movie th