Lee Theatre
105 E. 1st Street,
Dixon,
IL
61021
105 E. 1st Street,
Dixon,
IL
61021
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The Lee Theatre, located on E. 1st Street at Galena Avenue in Dixon opened in the fall of 1936. It was closed on July 3, 1963 with “The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm”. For the next year the theatre was used for special events.
It was converted into a drug store and pharmacy and by 2022 is lighting store named North Creek.
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Here is a March 1946 ad from the Dixon Evening Telegraph:
http://tinyurl.com/ya5teq6
Opened in the Fall of 1936 and closure as a regular movie house was July 3, 1963 after a final showing of “The Adventures of the Brothers Grimm.” The Lee-Dix Theatre Circuit which operated the Dixon Theater said the theater – which had no functioning air conditioning system at that time – would reopen in the Fall when cooler weather came. Though that didn’t transpire, the Lee was used for special events and organ recitals into 1964. Osco Drugs announced a deal in summer of 1964 to take over the Lee Building and converted the former Lee to a retail pharmacy.
Not demolished, but mutilated by a bad remodel. If it was ever a sporting goods store, that was gone by 2007, when it was vacant. Most recent streetview shows a furniture/lighting store. Best to just say retail.