Mode Theatre

The article below is from an April 1964 edition of the Cottonwood Chronicle. It doesn’t give a street address for the former theater, or say whether or not the building was destroyed in the fire.

“The Cottonwood Volunteer Fire Department responded to a fire alarm about 3:30 Saturday afternoon when a flash fire broke out in the ground floor area of the former Mode Theater building on Main Street owned by Cletus Uhlorn. Don Hoene and David Lustig were laying linoleum when the linoleum paste evidently exploded and the fire spread rapidly through the room and ignited the stairway. Six people upstairs, including 3 workmen and occupant Mrs. George Gehring and her visitor Mrs. Willard Lorentz and her 8-month-old son, were nearly trapped but were able to escape via a fire escape ladder installed only the day before. Members of the Fire Department had streams of water on the flames within two minutes of the alarm and the fire was under control by the time the 1,000 gallon tank was emptied.”