Strand Theatre

I was a little too young,at that time, to know if it was part of a chain or not.
Incidentally, I grew up on NW 52nd St & N. Miami Ave. I always thought that the Strand and Corpus Christi was a little too far South to be in Allapatah. As I remember it, That neighborhood ran from 36th St and NW 7th Ave to 79th St. Its Western border was NW 17th Ave. In those days, the N.W. Negro residential district was West of 17th Ave and ended at 27th Ave., to about 79th St.
By the same token, Little River was the area around N.E. 79TH St., between NE 2nd Ave. and the Bay. Lemon City was the area around NE 64th St., East to the Bay. There was an old open-air movie theater ( 4 walls, screen and seats, with no roof) dating from the 1920’s on NE 2nd Ave around 70th St., but I cannot remember its name.
Incidentally, does anyone have any information on the old Biltmore Theater on NE 41st St.?

Sorry, I have no idea when it was built. You might try checking the public records for property at that address. Dade County has an excellent site on line that will allow you to research any property in the county. It will have info on when buildings were erected on property.Hope this helps.

The Strand was a neighborhood house. I attended many Saturday double features as a kid in the mid ‘40’s for 9 cents admission. In the late 1940’s, R.C. mass was held in it on Sundays in the year before the current Corpus Christi Church and School was built.