I don't have an exact era of when the Lyric Theater was started and ended, but this item would be from circa 1912.

I don't think they ever played movies with sound in them - they were all silent before the building was turned into a cafe and later tavern.
Stories the old timers told me are that they had boxing and wrestling matches on the stage. One of the wrestler was Fred Timmerman.
I believe that Bonita (Kuhl) Hagedorn played the piano for some of the silent movies, but it may have been in the Crystal Theater, just across the street.

To this date, I have never run into any inside pictures of either theater.

It took me over an hour to digitally restore this item.

Since the brick street isn't yet laid, this picture was taken sometime before 1915.
Some of you will remember the Gamble Store in the building on the corner.
This is now location of the Plaza (Accura).

Below: looking northeast from Highway 141 -- Manning Hospital in background.

Below: a 1927 Plat of this block --- Main Street on the left side.

Lyric Theater
406 Main Street

1 Lyric Theater
2 Princess Café Robert & Bertha Kuhl
3 Kuhl's Tavern (Herb Kuhl)

410 - 402 Main Street

Circa 1930s

Below looking Southeast (left to right) pre 1915:
402 404 (corner building that housed the Gambles store), 406 (Lyric Theater), 408 (short wooden building), 410, 412 (which housed the Fire Station), 414 --- an unknown business which was torn down for the ambulance driveway when the Wyatt Hospital was built.

Left to right: 402/404, 406, 408, 410, 412