7/25/2010:
On this date in 1953, The Minot Daily News proudly reported that Minot was growing. A number of buildings were in the works, including the construction of a new theater, "the most modern in (the) United States."
Plans for the theater, which would be largest in the state, were under copyright and could not be discussed, but they included a 58-foot wide screen that could accommodate Cinemascope, Natural Vision and other projections. Stereophonic sound also would debut there. These elements were part of an ever-improving process, the "evolution of the realistic motion picture presentation."
Minot was growing, and, as the newspaper reported, citizens there had "not lost the courage that its founders had when the first buildings were undertaken."
Dakota Datebook written by Sarah Walker
Sources:
The Minot Daily News, July 24, 1953
The Minot Daily News, July 25, 1953