Iowa Theatre
115 N. Center Street,
Lake City,
IA
51449
115 N. Center Street,
Lake City,
IA
51449
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The 250-seat Star Theatre was opened by 1918. By 1938 it was listed with 300-seats and had been renamed Iowa Theatre. By 1943 it had been remodeled and given a Streamline Moderne style and the seating capacity had been increased to 500-seats. It was destroyed by fire on January 1, 1958.
A new theatre was built on the site in 1965, named the Capri Theatre, which has its own page on Cinema Treasures.
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Ken Roe
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The history section of the Lake City Capri Theatre’s web site says that the Iowa Theatre had been on the same site the Capri was later built on, so the address should be 115 N. Center Street. The fire that destroyed the house took place on New Year’s Day, 1958. The Iowa was last operated by Fridley Theatres.
Incidentally, the Iowa was part of a theater chain owned by Robert Fridley’s uncle Robert Bernau when Fridley leased the house and operated it on his own starting in 1950. It was while running the Iowa that Fridley met his future wife of 67 years, Myrna. Owner of perhaps the most successful regional, independent theater chain in the country, Bob Fridley died in February, 2021, at the age of 103. Read his obituary here.