Theatre 1536
1536 E. Grand Avenue,
Des Moines,
IA
50316
1536 E. Grand Avenue,
Des Moines,
IA
50316
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The Eastown Theater was a basic neighborhood theater showing mostly B-movies. It first opened in 1941 and was operated by TriStates Theatres.
Before it closed, it had been re-named Theatre 1536, and it showed porn for a while.
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From Boxoffice magazine, May 1941:
DES MOINES-The Eastown, new Tri-States and East Des Moines Theater Corp. theater here, is scheduled to open Wednesday. The new house will be the tenth Tri-States theater in the city.
I can’t see any building resembling the theater in Google street view. It must be gone. There’s a newer building with six store fronts which looks like it occupies the theater site and a couple of adjacent parcels as well, though it has the address 1534 E. Grand. The building next door is definitely not the theater.
Here is a December 1965 ad from the Des Moines Register:
http://tinyurl.com/llyx9u
It looks like it was called Theater 1536 in the 1983 photo. Maybe that was its porno name.
Here is a December 1974 ad for the Theatre 1536:
http://tinyurl.com/man8tm
The 1536 building was demolished about 2000 or so.
Header should be changed to Theatre 1536 with an AKA Eastown Theatre. Theatre 1536 was the name when it closed.
O.K.
This opened as Theatre 1536 on October 25th, 1974. Grand opening ad posted here.