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3 Screens, 260 Seats
Platinum Cinema Excelsior Dock
26 Water Street, Excelsior, MN 55331, USA
Closed.
Built near the shores of Lake Minnetonka, in downtown Excelsior, the Tonka Theatre opened in 1941, a small but elegant Streamline-style whose auditorium was decorated with murals of steamboats on the nearby lake. Just three years later, however, the Tonka Theatre was gutted by a fire. It took an appeal to the War Production Board, as this occurred during WW II, and there were strict regulations on building materials. As it was the town’s sole movie house, the owners of the Tonka Theatre were allowed to rebuild, and during the summer of 1945, it was reopened.
In the 1970’s, the Tonka Theatre was twinned, and at the same time, received a new name, the Dock 1 & 2, with the main floor being Dock 1 and the former balcony, Dock 2. The theatre was triplexed during the 1980’s.
The theater remains a popular destination, screening a mix of first-run, art and foreign features.
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