Take one last journey into the IOKA Theatre and visit its iconic marquee with this film, which is my thank you gift to everyone who has been involved with preservation efforts over the years, especially in 2020. My hope is that this film helps us all find closure, healing, and unity after the loss of one of the last Vaudeville theatres in the US and one of the few remaining historical movie houses in New Hampshire.
The IOKA Theatre in Exeter, NH came into being in 1915, and its Art Deco-era marquee lit up the heart of downtown in neon since circa 1941. The IOKA's colorful, magnetic, and controversial history is, like the river that runs behind it, one of abundance coming and going. On December 23, 2008, the theater showed it final movie and efforts were intense over the years to revive it and bring it back.
I have been involved with the IOKA Theatre since my grandmother--who saw her first movie there in 1938-- brought me inside the lobby in the 1970s to greet the owner, a few years before I saw my first movie there. I have decades of warm memories of seeing movies with my family and friends (and even of causing mischief at the IOKA as a teen!). At age 15, my best friend and I worked at the IOKA, which was a Generation X adventure I will always cherish. Not many local kids could say they looked out of the "O" in the IOKA marquee, overlooking the town!
Fast forward to 2012 and 2013: My son, Brycen and I were deeply involved in the efforts to revive the theater as a community-run, membership-based multi-arts center. Unfortunately, as fate would have it, the efforts were not successful, and the theater sat vacant and decaying for several years; its marquee sadly advertised our grief.
In 2020, the IOKA met its 8th (9th?) owners who will be launching the building into an entirely new chapter-- no longer as a theatre. In May 2020, I founded the effort to save and preserve the IOKA marquee, and once again, this landmark entity called "The IOKA" consumed the community's attention, but this time "The IOKA" subject became a micro-chasm of the polarized divisions in our country. With the help of over 2,600 petition signatories and an alliance and group of many passionate preservation advocates, those of us in favor of saving the marquee moved our case through the town boards until our successes with the Historic District Commission were overturned by the Zoning Board of Adjustment in September. Now, a new chapter has begun of re-homing and restoring the IOKA marquee...
This film is not "the" history of the IOKA Theatre or even "a" history, but one artist's expression of how the IOKA weaved its history into hers and into her family history... Please enjoy my family archive of photos and video, plus wonderful contributed photos and video, as well. If you are interested in being considered as a candidate for the IOKA marquee, please leave a comment or private message me.
-Laurie A. Couture
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Circuits - Alexander Nakarada
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When the Music Goes Around - TeknoAXE
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Rock You (Eighties Classic Rock Instrumental) - RockSounds
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Speed Metal Music - Terminal Lumut
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Starseed - Royalty Free Music
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90s Chilled Hip Hop Type Beat Instrumental- MaverickMyers Radio
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Ska - RightBeatRadio
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Lost In Sound - Roy Knox
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Awesome Polkas - Happy Louie
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Lost in Translation - Steam Phunk ft. Lydia Ford
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We Don’t Care - Matt Rysen & Pyrelight
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Propeller - Silent Partner
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Last Dawn - Ross Bugden
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Catlyst - Alexander Nakarada
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Cinematic Hybrid Piano Music - Ozone
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16 ноя 2020
