Classmate Rusty Johnson remembers the Hiser Theater:

"The Hiser Theater (owned by Henry Hiser) was located on Wisconsin Avenue, next to the Bethesda Post Office. Below it were the Hiser Bowling lanes, managed by his son, Johnny Hiser. Richard Dunn, Bob Wooden and I worked there as mechanics for a while. (One of my fingers is 1/2 inch shorter than it should be because the end of it got nipped off in the chain drive of one of the Sherman automatic pin setters there.) Anyhow, when integration started happening, Henry Hiser sold his theater to the KB chain, and it became the Baronet. I never heard it called the Bethesda Hiser theater, although in a previous incarnation it was called the State Theater. I remember an old ghost sign painted on the side that said "State Theater Electric Sound." I'm not sure when the bowling alley closed, but when the old theater was being torn down, I "gained creative ingress" to the old bowling alley and was pleased to see that there was still some of the blood spray on the wall where the pin setter was that tore off the end of my finger."