Sparta Theatre

141 W. Broadway Street,
Sparta, IL 62286

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Norman Plant
Norman Plant on April 20, 2021 at 6:39 pm

I’ve been through Sparta many times through the years, and I can confirm that grassy vacant lot is where the Sparta Theater once stood.

DavidZornig
DavidZornig on April 20, 2021 at 6:13 pm

Address was 141 West Broadway, same as the previous Grand Theatre on the same site. I added a 1971 photo and the same bank building to the Sparta’s left is still standing in the July 2019 street view. The former Sparta Theatre site is still a grass covered vacant lot, with part of the perimeter foundation still visible.

StillOkie
StillOkie on June 16, 2017 at 4:10 am

I remember my Dad used to stop by there if going by sometimes on an occasional evening and he’d get take out popcorn for us to have for watching the new cable TV movies he had subscribed our household to. My mom worked the counter there, she said she knew J.D. from thence, when she was a “teenie bopper” cheerleader at Sparta High ~lol

bodkin6071
bodkin6071 on August 16, 2009 at 4:27 pm

This theater burned down?

kencmcintyre
kencmcintyre on May 3, 2009 at 1:01 pm

Here are some photos from 1985:
http://tinyurl.com/derlsg
http://tinyurl.com/c6cfrf
http://tinyurl.com/d5kzs3
http://tinyurl.com/c6636m
http://tinyurl.com/cfnenw

kencmcintyre
kencmcintyre on September 19, 2007 at 7:08 pm

The Sparta was part of the Turner-Farrar theater chain in the early sixties.