| Len had a large workshop at the back of the property where he built everything from furniture to boats. He worked for Taylor and Drury Motors during the war and the servicemen would call on him to get their vehicles started in the winter. The Metcalfe’s sold the house on Main Street to Howard Brunlee in November 1965 when the Metcalfes moved to Riverdale. | Len had a large workshop at the back of the property where he built everything from furniture to boats. He worked for Taylor and Drury Motors during the war and the servicemen would call on him to get their vehicles started in the winter. The Metcalfe’s sold the house on Main Street to Howard Brunlee in November 1965 when the Metcalfes moved to Riverdale. |
| A man from Dawson bought the lot next door and built the Capitol Theatre around 1942 when Marion Smith, nee Metcalfe’s older brother was a toddler. Smoke used to vent from the basement of the theatre when the card games were on.((Marion L. Smith writing to Jim Robb, “Buildings recognized.” //Colourful Five Per Cent, Whitehorse Star// (Whitehorse), 2 October 1998.)) Andy Hooper remembers playing ace-away in many places in Whitehorse, including the basement of the Capitol Theatre. There was big money in the games that attracted George Simmons, T.C. Richards, Old Man [Alex] Seeley, and some Kansas City Bridge Americans.((Liesel Briggs, “Andy Hooper at 90: This colorful oldtimer can still work people half his age into utter exhaustion.” //The Whitehorse Star// (Whitehorse), 7 September 1990.)) In 1946, when Sam McClimon bought a half interest in the Capitol Theatre on Second Avenue, the building had uneven steps and the projector shot its beam of light down the aisle so anyone standing up to go to the lobby had his/her silhouette projected on the screen.((Delores Smith, “McClimon built state-of-the-art theatre." //The Whitehorse Star// (Whitehorse), 17 May 1995.)) Len Metcalf was the projectionist on Thursday nights for many years in the 1950s and 1960s.((Marion L. Smith writing to Jim Robb, “Buildings recognized.” //Colourful Five Per Cent, Whitehorse Star// (Whitehorse), 2 October 1998.)) | A man from Dawson bought the lot next door and built the Capitol Theatre around 1942 when Marion Smith, nee Metcalfe’s older brother was a toddler. Smoke used to vent from the basement of the theatre when the card games were on.((Marion L. Smith writing to Jim Robb, “Buildings recognized.” //Colourful Five Per Cent, Whitehorse Star// (Whitehorse), 2 October 1998.)) Andy Hooper remembers playing ace-away in many places in Whitehorse, including the basement of the Capitol Theatre. There was big money in the games that attracted George Simmons, T.C. Richards, Old Man [Alex] Seeley, and some Kansas City Bridge Americans.((Liesel Briggs, “Andy Hooper at 90: This colourful oldtimer can still work people half his age into utter exhaustion.” //The Whitehorse Star// (Whitehorse), 7 September 1990.)) In 1946, when Sam McClimon bought a half interest in the Capitol Theatre on Second Avenue, the building had uneven steps and the projector shot its beam of light down the aisle so anyone standing up to go to the lobby had his/her silhouette projected on the screen.((Delores Smith, “McClimon built state-of-the-art theatre." //The Whitehorse Star// (Whitehorse), 17 May 1995.)) Len Metcalf was the projectionist on Thursday nights for many years in the 1950s and 1960s.((Marion L. Smith writing to Jim Robb, “Buildings recognized.” //Colourful Five Per Cent, Whitehorse Star// (Whitehorse), 2 October 1998.)) |
