Grand Theatre
403 East 2nd Street,
Muscatine,
IA
52761
403 East 2nd Street,
Muscatine,
IA
52761
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The Grand Theatre building dates back to at least 1901 when it was known as the Grand Opera House. The Grand Theatre is listed as closed in 1940.
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The Grand is still listed as closed in the 1945 edition of the Film Daily Yearbook.
Here is a photo of the Grand Opera House in 1901.
This is a photo of the Grand Opera House in 1910.
Here is a 1930 photo of the Grand Theater.
According to a history page for the Trinity Episcopal Church in Muscatine, Iowa: In 1945, the neighboring Grand Opera House burned to the ground, but Trinity’s slate roof prevented it from suffering a similar fate. The status should be demolished.
Muscatine’s Grand and Palace Theatres were sold by Midland Theatres to Fox West Coast Theatres in 1929, according to an item in Movie Age, November 2 that year. Both were among the Muscatine theaters operated at one time by Ludy Bosten, an exhibitor in the town from 1912 into the 1960s, according to an article about his career in the April 9, 1962, issue of Boxoffice Magazine.
The Grand Theatre’s demise was recorded by a brief item in the March 17, 1945, issue of Boxoffice, which said that the house had been destroyed by a fire the previous week.