Plaza Theater
4444 First Avenue NE,
Cedar Rapids,
IA
52402
4444 First Avenue NE,
Cedar Rapids,
IA
52402
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Built much like the Plaza in nearby Des Moines, the Cedar Rapids Plaza was an 800-seat single screen theater and was located on the south side of Lindale Plaza.
It was closed by Dubinsky Brothers many years ago. The Plaza is currently home to a ballroom.
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As referred to above, this theatre was one of three built in the middle to late 60’s by ABC/TriStates Theatres. (The third was the Parkway/Moline,IL. All were designed by Henry George Greene of ABC Theatres.) All three featured rocking chair seating, large screens complete with drapes and 70mm projection. Because of their basic floor plan, they were extremely efficient theatres to operate. I managed this theatre for about a year, and relieved managers for vacations in the other two. I refer to these theatres and others like them as the “second generation” of movie palaces.
In the early 80’s the theatre was converted to a nightclub- then an office supply store. Currently it has been renovated into a ballroom called “Let’s Dance”
Now the Ballroom is outta business
Here is a 1970 ad from the Cedar Rapids Gazette:
http://tinyurl.com/ysgq9h
After the floods of June 2008 damaged the Iowa Theater building, the community theater group Theatre Cedar Rapids (sic) has set up temporary home in the building while fund raising goes on for major renovations to the Iowa Theater building.
Cedar Rapids: Downtown and Beyond, by George T. Henry and Mark W. Hunter, says that the Plaza Theatre opened in the summer of 1967 with The War Wagon, and closed in December, 1987.