Hyart Theater, The - Lovell, WY
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N 44° 50.256 W 108° 23.295
12T E 706427 N 4968228
Built by Hy Bischoff in 1950-51, the Hyart Theatre is one of few 1950s theatres in Wyoming and one of even fewer still in operation today. Here's another theatre with sufficient renown to have made a stand alone Lucky 7.
Waymark Code: WMWV7J
Location: Wyoming, United States
Date Posted: 10/15/2017
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The Hyart remained in operation by the Bischoff family until its closure by Hy's Daughter Loretta in 1992. In 2004, lamenting the lack of a theatre in Lovell, a group of Lovell residents formed a non-profit organization, the Hyart Redevelopment Committee, raised money for restoration work and officially re-opened the Hyart on November 13, 2004. Built to seat 1,001 moviegoers, the Hyart now has 940 seats, more than enough to accommodate today's average crowd of around 350 people. It remains in operation to this day. When we visited in June of 2017 the theatre was screening the Hyart Film Festival.
Hy, after examining several theatres in the western U.S., modeled the Hyart after Salt Lake City's Villa Theatre, creating the design for the Hyart himself. A man of many talents, Hy not only designed and oversaw the construction but also accomplished details of the actual construction himself, such as mixing, pouring, and finishing the concrete for the auditorium. When the theatre was complete Hy named the finished product after himself.
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