Strand Theatre
116 S. Main Street,
Atmore,
AL
36502
116 S. Main Street,
Atmore,
AL
36502
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The Strand Theatre has been operating since at least 1941. It is still in use as a first run, single-screen movie theater.
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Ross Melnick
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The address for the Strand thetre is, 116 South Main Street.
In 1970 the Strand was part of the Fred McLendon theater circuit, along with the Palms Drive-In in Atmore.
1988 Photo of the Strand Theatre.
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This building will get your attention.
The Strand Theater is listed in 1955 with 792 seats.
LM I wonder when that photo was taken, it is such a drastic change from the American Classic photo of 1988, but with all the paint peeling in that photo the change couldn’t have been too recent. Like you said it does catch the eyes.
That’s a pretty recent photo Chuck. The marquee is advertising “X-Men Origins: Wolverine” which was released around the first of May so the photo probably is from the end of April 2009. That photo looks more like the photo at the top right of this page than the American Classic photo.
A very cool theater. A friend of mine lived down the street from it for a few years (unfortunately he moved this year), and every year for his birthday he would rent the theater for the day and we would watch dvd projections of classic movies. I was amazed that he could do that on a Saturday for just a couple hundred bucks or so. We would take a break from about 5:30 to 11:30 or so, so that they could have regular evening showings of whatever new feature they were showing, and then we would watch another dvd-projected movie at midnight. The management there is super-cool, we sure had some great times watching movies in this wonderful old historic theater.