NAP- Neighborhood Alliance of Pawtucket

I will have to go thru the scrapbooks, but I do remember some childhood conversations bits of going to the different theaters. It was a different age...as most walked then too...some trolleys....but the shoemaker must have been busy.

I know there were others like the Music Hall as I recall relatives talking about and I know there were famous folks on the stages too here...

Maybe when steamboats came to Pawtucket

April 4, 2009

Dear JimmyJimmy,

Actually, in the late 1970's the small venue 2,200 seat, acoustically-perfect Leroy Theater  launched the rock and roll careers of Bob Seger, Pat Benatar, Blondie, Jean Luc Ponty, Parliament/Funkadelic and many other groups. 

The concert most missed  at the Leroy by many residents of the city happened in winter 1977 when a relatively unknown Detroit rock growler Bob  Seger visited Pawtucket .  My friend invited me to the show, with an admission fee of $1.00. I politely said no, having never heard of Seger.  For over three hours, to only 50 people, Seger played "Night Moves" , "Old Time Rock and Roll", "Ramblin', Gamblin' Man"  and other songs.  

About one month later, Seger released "Night Moves" as a single.  The album "Night Moves" proved one of the better album of the 1970s; Seger never played a small arena ever again. 

The Seger concert proved to be one of the Leroy's best final days.

Peace, Jim      

Does anyone recall the Broadway Theater that was a neighborhood house in the Pleasant View area?