Brainerd Theatre
122 S. Sixth Street,
Brainerd,
MN
56401
122 S. Sixth Street,
Brainerd,
MN
56401
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Located in the Art Moderne-style Baehr Building (built in 1936) on Sixth Street near Front Street, the Brainerd Theatre, when it opened in 1938, originally was a single screen theater seating 1000. The Baehr Building, besides the movie theater, also housed offices, apartments, and retail space. The Brainerd was later twinned. The Baehr Building was demolished in 1999 and replaced by a parking lot.
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Here is a circa-1943 exterior view of the former Brainerd Theatre, with its great Moderne vertical sign and marquee.
Should we forgo the Fargo jokes? Ubetcha.
Here is a photo being advertised on eBay:
http://tinyurl.com/3dxch3
This theater was part of the Home Theaters Co. in the early sixties, headquartered out of Brainerd. Other Home theaters at the time were the Ely in Ely, the Border and Grand in International Falls, the Park in Park Rapids and the Avalon and Falls theaters in Thief River Falls. Home president was Frank Mantzke.
Here is a June 1954 ad from the Brainerd Daily Dispatch:
http://tinyurl.com/yvqoft
This is a 1948 photo being advertised on eBay:
http://tinyurl.com/3hbfls
The Brainerd Theatre was designed by the Minneapolis architectural firm Liebenberg & Kaplan.
1984 photo of the Brainerd Theatre.
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1986 photo of the Brainerd Theatre. (A Roller Rink by 1986)
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Nothing but a parking lot today.