Strand Theater
123 Washington Avenue,
Endicott,
NY
13760
123 Washington Avenue,
Endicott,
NY
13760
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I found the Strand Theater that was located in Endicott, NY on a library website along with a 1915 photo of Washington Avenue showing the Strand Theater on the right side of the photo. Any further info on the Strand Theater would be appreciated.
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Listed as open in the Film Daily Yearbooks 1941 through 1950 editions that I have. A seating capacity of 800 is given in the 1940’s.
The Endicott Strand was demolished by the 1960’s, and remains a parking lot to this day. Endicott had 5 theatres at one time – the Elvin (demolished-parking lot), the State/Cinema Endicott (closed by Loews in 1993 and demolished for an Eckerd Drug), the Lyric/Towne (now Endicott Performing Arts Center), the Royal (small early nickelodeon style, became a music store, now for rent as retail space), and the Strand.
Endicott also had a drive-in: The Tri-Cities Drive In was operated by the Deitrich family that also ran the old Lyric and State Theaters. When the Tri-Cities Drive In was converted for CinemaScope, the screen was a 100 foot, curved screen slightly tilted down for good projection.
A Link theater organ was installed in the Strand Theater in 1927.
I believe a little bit of the facade of this theatre is still left, clinging to the wall of the Music Workshop.
I went there as a little boy, when I lived in Endicott.
It was not a big movie palace, but it was still nice.
We usually went up the street to the Lyric, which is now the Endicott Performing Arts Center.