Woodford Theater
113 S. Main Street,
Eureka,
IL
61530
113 S. Main Street,
Eureka,
IL
61530
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The Woodford Theater, on Main Street, closed as a movie house in 1983 and today houses a greeting cards store.
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Bryan Krefft
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The Woodford Theater is listed as having 400 seats.
The Woodford was an art deco house which opened in 1937. It closed in 1957 while I was a student at Eureka College. A community group decided to open it as a non-profit and sold memberships. A college group I belonged to bought a membership and I was asked to represent them on the board. We did a pretty good job of saving it, as it survived 26 years under the community aegis. It’s interesting that I remember in those early years of non-profit operation the only films we could be sure of at least breaking even on in that college town were Disneys!
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