Strand Theater

621 Main Street,
Ackley, IA 50601

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Strand Theater

The Strand Theater was opened by 1911. The sale of the Strand Theater from Herman Wolf to Walter Cowell was announced in the Waterloo Daily Courier on August 31, 1948. Mr. Wolf had purchased the theater in 1947.

Contributed by Ken McIntyre

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kencmcintyre
kencmcintyre on June 27, 2009 at 4:11 pm

It looks there are some lawyers at this address, but I don’t know if they are in the theater building or a new building.

kencmcintyre
kencmcintyre on June 27, 2009 at 4:23 pm

Party time at the Strand in February 1958, from the Ackley World Journal:
http://tinyurl.com/mk2yer

SethG
SethG on December 7, 2023 at 12:18 pm

This is not demolished. The history needs a lot of work. This theater appears on the 1911 map. The 1900 map has it as a dry goods store, and the building was built sometime before 1883. The second floor was a lodge room, at least up until the theater operation started.

For some incredibly stupid reason, I did a terrible job covering this town, despite decent weather. I’ve added a Sanborn view, and a shot of downtown with the theater in the foreground. The building is in decent shape, aside from the typical ugly remodeled ground floor.

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