Roscommon Cinema
200 North Main Street,
Roscommon,
MI
48653
200 North Main Street,
Roscommon,
MI
48653
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The Strand Theatre dates back to at least 1941. Still listed as the Strand Theatre in 1955 with 323 seats. The former Strand Theatre is now known as the Roscommon Cinema.
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This website has photos of the Strand and the Roscommon Cinema.
The August 3, 1940, issue of Boxoffice mentions that “…the new Strand at Roscommon, opened by Bruce Freeman….” had joined the Mutual Theatres booking combine. As is often the case with brief Boxoffice items, you can’t tell for sure if Mr. Freeman had built a new theater or simply reopened and perhaps renamed an existing house.
The theater was called the Strand at least as late as October, 1974, per various mentions in Boxoffice. The first instance of the name Roscommon Cinema I’ve found is from July, 1996.
I think the Strand might have been new build because I can’t find any theaters listed for Roscommon prior to 1940.
Here is a recent photo.
Here is a 1980 photo:
http://tinyurl.com/ybgp3uj