Oshkosh Theatre
427 N. Main Street,
Oshkosh,
WI
54901
427 N. Main Street,
Oshkosh,
WI
54901
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Bruce is correct. Oshkosh renumbered the lots on many of its streets, including Main Street, in 1957. 157 N. Main was the Oshkosh Theatre’s old address. 427 N. Main is the modern address.
Volume 3 of a 1994 publication called History of the City of Oshkosh, by Clarence Jungwirth, has a chapter about the theaters in Oshkosh, and it says that the Oshkosh Theatre was on the site of an earlier house called the Orpheum. The text is a bit ambiguous, so I don’t know if the Oshkosh was entirely new construction or was an extensive remodeling of the Orpheum. There are photos of both theaters, the Orpheum on page 33 and the Oshkosh on page 37. A digital scan of the chapter can be seen online at this link, courtesy of the Oshkosh Public Library.
In the book “Historic Movie Theatres of Wisconsin” (by Konrad Schiecke) the address for the Oshkosh Theatre is listed as 427 N. Main Street (on this page it is listed as 157 N. Main St.). This would put the theatre a few buildings away from the Time Theatre. This address is currently a True Value Hardware Store. I’ve uploaded a recent photo of this store.
This theatre opened on February 5th, 1927.
You can see the grand opening ad at http://en.calameo.com/books/00024792886c1b88cf364
A Barton theater organ was installed in the Oshkosh Theater in 1926.
On the postcard linked above, on the other side of Main Street you can see the Hotel Raulf/Strand Theater (the tallest building on the postcard).
Here is a circa-1946 view of Main Street in Oshkosh with the Oshkosh Theatre visible on the left.