Strand Theater
77 East Main Street,
Waterbury,
CT
77 East Main Street,
Waterbury,
CT
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Opened in 1913. Known as Fox’s for one year. Became the Strand again in 1915. Demolished in 1951 for the F.W. Woolworth and W.T. Grant stores.
Justine Johnston, who went on to fame on Broadway with the Ziegfeld Follies, performed at the Strand. The theater was located on what is now the site of the new UConn-Waterbury Campus courtyard.
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Listed in the Film Daily Yearbook; 1950 edition as having a seating capacity of 1,409.
From the WATERBURY CONNECTICUT THEATERS HISTORY site:
“Owner: John J. O'Neill, later leased by William Fox, prominently linked to the theatrical world and eager to challenge the Poli empire in New England.
Use: Vaudeville, summer stock and popular second-run movies and re-releases".
The Waterbury Connecticut Theaters History site that lostmemory is referring to is at http://freewebs.com/waterburyct/theaters.htm It’s one page of a site that gives an online tour of Waterbury in vintage images from the late 1800s to the 1950s. The tour starts on the home page at http://freewebs.com/waterburyct/
A picture of this theater is in Images of America: Waterbury on page 51.
A Hall theater organ was installed in the Strand Theater in 1925.